Theory:Timeline - Clara Oswald

This page lists appearances of Clara Oswald in the order in which she experienced them. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. It is assumed that for each novel, comic, audio or television series, their published, broadcast or numbered order is the order they occur in.

The layout of this timeline is in part based on the observations on Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures, as well as Lance Parkin's AHistory and other sources that allow us to make observations, such as Doctor Who Reviews, Clive Banks databanks and the Big Finnish forums. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Meeting the Doctor

 * TV: The Rings of Akhaten
 * Clara is born to Ellie and Dave Oswald. She first meets the Eleventh Doctor as a young child, unintentionally kicking a ball into his face.


 * WC: The Bells of Saint John: A Prequel
 * Clara has a brief encounter with the Eleventh Doctor in her childhood.


 * TV: The Rings of Akhaten
 * A teenage Clara mourns her mother's death in 2005.


 * TV: The Snowmen
 * An adult Clara visits a graveyard.


 * TV: The Bells of Saint John
 * Having been given his phone number by "the ", Clara calls the Doctor to 2013, who helping him defeat the Wi-Fi plot of Miss Kizlet and her "client". The Doctor invites her to join him in the TARDIS, but she asks him to return later so she can think about it.

Travels with the Eleventh Doctor

 * TV: The Rings of Akhaten
 * The Doctor takes Clara to Tiaanamat of the Sun-singers of Akhet, where they face the Old God Akhaten with Queen of Years Merry Gejelh.


 * PROSE: Normality
 * The Doctor and Clara observe the Tonnchenform.


 * COMIC: The Mystery of the Mould


 * COMIC: The Planet That Went Backwards


 * COMIC: Teacher's Pet


 * COMIC: The Choice


 * COMIC: Endgame


 * TV: Cold War
 * Clara has, by this point, official joined the Doctor as his traveling companion, and learns about the TARDIS translation circuit and Hostile Action Displacement System while facing Skaldak the Ice Warrior aboard the Firebird during the Cold War, as well as bring told about time being in flux and rewritable.


 * COMIC: A Wing and a Prayer
 * The Doctor and Clara meet Amy Johnson. Clara hasn't realised the magnitude of time travel yet, setting this before Hide.


 * HOMEVID: Clara and the TARDIS
 * Clara references the Doctor's "codependent relationship" with his sonic screwdriver, setting this after The Rings of Akhaten. Clara doesn't know that the Doctor had any past companions, setting this before The Name of the Doctor. This probably also means it is quite early in her travels with the Doctor. In Hide a seemingly longstanding hostile relationship between Clara and the TARDIS exists, making it likely that this story occurred before that one.


 * TV: Hide
 * The Doctor takes Clara to Caliburn House to get empathic psychic Emma Grayling's opinion of her, learning that there is nothing unusual about Clara. Clara begins to understand the ramifications of traveling in time, such as visiting someone before their death or seeing her own grave in the future.


 * COMIC: Sky Jacks


 * COMIC: Coral Maze


 * COMIC: Sandblasted


 * COMIC: Tunnel Terrors!


 * COMIC: Dead Man's Hand
 * Clara is not familiar with the Last Great Time War at this point and Doctor refuses to tell her about it, setting this before The Name of the Doctor. The Doctor has not yet taken Clara to Shoreditch, setting this before Shroud of Sorrow. The Doctor is depicted wearing his clothes from Nightmare in Silver.


 * PROSE: Shroud of Sorrow
 * The Doctor refers to Clara hurting the TARDIS's feeling during Hide.


 * COMIC: Nova


 * COMIC: Line of Battle


 * TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
 * In an a timeline he is able to avert, but still remember, the Doctor confronts Clara about him running into her twice already, and both encounters ending in her death, and discovers that she is unaware of these events and what may be so unusual about her. From this point onwards, the Doctor is friendlier to Clara, and starts treating her as his companion rather than as a mystery.


 * COMIC: The Curse of the Gibwyn


 * COMIC: Gumfight


 * COMIC: The Hat Trick


 * COMIC: Gnome Guard


 * COMIC: Strictly Fight Monsters


 * COMIC: Planet Void


 * COMIC: The Door to a Winter Long Ago


 * COMIC: Night Light


 * COMIC: Reprogramme


 * COMIC: Shipwrecked


 * COMIC: Eye of the Storm


 * COMIC: Whale Tale


 * COMIC: Faceache


 * TV: The Crimson Horror
 * After an adventure with the Paternoster Gang in 1893 Yorkshire, the Doctor returns Clara home, where her charges, Angie and Artie Maitland, reveal that they have found evidence of her being a time traveler, leading directly into Nightmare in Silver.


 * TV: Nightmare in Silver
 * To keep Angie and Artie quiet, the Doctor and Clara take them on a daytrip to Hedgewick's World of Wonders, where they face the Cybermen.


 * TV: The Name of the Doctor
 * Returning to collect Clara from her home, the Doctor learns that the Great Intelligence has taken the Paternoster Gang to Trenzalore to gain access to his tomb. When the Intelligence enters the Doctor's time stream to destroy it, Clara follows after him, resulting in her being splintered across time and meeting the Doctor during Asylum of the Daleks and The Snowmen. Entering his own time stream to save her, the Doctor is confronted by a memory of the War Doctor.


 * COMIC: Time Trick
 * Clara recognises the First Doctor in sight, setting this after The Name of the Doctor.


 * COMIC: The Birthday Boy


 * COMIC: Welcome to Tickle Town
 * Clara refers to the events of Nightmare in Silver.


 * COMIC: John Smith and the Common Men
 * Clara is said to have lived "many lives" on "many worlds", setting this after The Name of the Doctor.


 * TV: The History of the Doctor


 * PROSE: Normality
 * Having become a teacher at Coal Hill School, Clara takes a break from the TARDIS to live a normal live for a while.


 * TV: The Day of the Doctor
 * After picking Clara up from Coal Hill School, the Doctor is brought back into the Last Great Time War with his tenth incarnation by the Moment to help the War Doctor, which results in Clara convincing them to find an alternative to destroying Gallifrey, and the Doctors joining with their past incarnations to lock Gallifrey in a pocket dimension. With the Time Lords saved, the Eleventh Doctor decides to go looking for Gallifrey. By this point, he has told Clara about the Last Great Time War and his role in it.


 * COMIC: Dragon Attack


 * COMIC: The Holly and the Ivy
 * Clara is preparing to celebrate Christmas, taking the Doctor Christmas shopping to get her father a present, setting this shortly before The Time of the Doctor.


 * COMIC: By the Book


 * COMIC: Creatures from the Deep


 * COMIC: Invaders of the Vortex


 * PROSE: Into the Nowhere
 * Set between The Day of the Doctor and The Time of the Doctor.


 * COMIC: A Tangled Web


 * COMIC: Ball-Pit Beast


 * COMIC: T-Shirt Terror


 * COMIC: Fans


 * COMIC: Pay the Piper


 * COMIC: The Blood of Azrael


 * COMIC: Universally Known


 * COMIC: Thrill-Seeker


 * COMIC: Wintervention


 * COMIC: A Long Way Down


 * COMIC: The Killer Weed


 * COMIC: Eternity Springs


 * COMIC: Robot vs Robot


 * COMIC: Jungle Jam


 * COMIC: Swarm


 * TV: The Time of the Doctor
 * Tracing a signal to Trenzalore, the Doctor spends 900 years waging the Siege of Trenzalore. Clara convinces the Time Lords to assist the Doctor, and they comply by giving the Doctor a new regeneration cycle, allowing him to use the regeneration energy to destroy the Dalek ships and save Trenzalore. After saying goodby to Clara, the Doctor regenerates into his next incarnation.

Travels with the Twelfth Doctor

 * TV: Deep Breath
 * After recovering from his regeneration with the Paternoster Gang in Victorian London, Clara sends the Doctor for coffee in 2010s Glasgow.


 * TV: Into the Dalek
 * Clara meets Danny Pink at Coal Hill School, and the Doctor returns with coffee three weeks after she sent him off.


 * COMIC: Road Rage
 * Clara resumes her ongoing travels with the Doctor.


 * COMIC: Untitled
 * The Doctor and Clara share chips together.


 * COMIC: Planet of the Diners
 * The Doctor mentions the chips that he and Clara recently shared in Untitled, and the TARDIS gets a scratch.


 * COMIC: The Inversion of Time
 * The Doctor has just removed the scratch on the TARDIS, setting this immediately after Planet of the Diners.


 * COMIC: The Bin Dilemma
 * The Doctor is still assessing what kind of person he has become.


 * PROSE: Silhouette
 * The Doctor entertains the idea of letting Clara decide their next destination, setting this before Robot of Sherwood. Clara also worries that the Doctor is mistaking her for Jenny Flint, setting this not long after Deep Breath.


 * TV: Robot of Sherwood
 * Deciding to let Clara decide their next destination, the Doctor ends up meeting Robin Hood in 1190 Sherwood Forest.


 * COMIC: Chime Time


 * COMIC: Once Bitten


 * COMIC: Crash Landing


 * PROSE: The Blood Cell
 * Clara is friendly with Danny, but does not call him her boyfriend, placing this before their date in Listen.


 * COMIC: The Court of Birds


 * TV: Listen
 * Clara goes on her first date with Danny.


 * COMIC: The Monsters of Coal Hill School
 * The Doctor is picking Clara up from Coal Hill School.


 * COMIC: More Than Meets the Eye


 * COMIC: Witch Work


 * TV: Time Heist
 * The Doctor is picking Clara up for some adventures while she prepares for another date with Danny.


 * TV: The Caretaker
 * The Doctor and Clara are left to the mercy of sand piranhas while chained to posts on a desert planet.


 * PROSE: The Crawling Terror
 * Clara has a boyfriend, setting this after her and Danny's second date in Time Heist.


 * TV: The Caretaker
 * The Doctor picks up Clara from her flat, and the two rendezvous with fish people.


 * PROSE: When the Wolves Came


 * TV: The Caretaker
 * The Doctor and Clara outrun soldiers to get to the TARDIS.


 * COMIC: Gift Snatched!


 * COMIC: Freeze
 * The Doctor was dropping Clara off at Coal Hill School.


 * TV: The Caretaker
 * While facing a Skovox Blitzer at Coal Hill School, the Doctor meets Danny Pink and learns he's Clara's boyfriend after the two get off on the wrong foot due to Danny's military service.


 * COMIC: Terrorformer
 * The Doctor and Clara have faced the Daleks, Robot Knights and the Skovox Blitzer by this point, setting this after The Caretaker.


 * COMIC: Petrified


 * COMIC: The Swords of Kali


 * PROSE: A Long Way Down


 * PROSE: Silver Mosquitoes


 * COMIC: The Wheelers


 * COMIC: Five a Day


 * COMIC: The Very Hungry Snake


 * COMIC: The Fractures
 * Clara says she would do anything to reclaim someone she lost, placing this before Dark Water.


 * COMIC: Four Doctors
 * Set before Dark Water, with cryptic references to Clara's betraying the Doctor's trust.


 * COMIC: The Meeting
 * Set during Four Doctors.


 * TV: Kill the Moon
 * After taking Courtney Woods to the Moon leads to a dilemma about ending an unborn life that the Doctor leaves her to sort out, Clara falls out with the Doctor, and tells him to leave her alone.


 * TV: Mummy on the Orient Express
 * Clara and the Doctor meet up to have a last adventure together on the  Orient Express spacecraft, which leads to them making up after the Doctor proves himself by saving Maisie Pitt from the Foretold. Inspired by a talk she had with Maisie, Clara begins lying to Danny about no longer travelling in the TARDIS and having ended it with the Doctor. All stories with Clara acting more like the Doctor take place after this one.


 * COMIC: The Body Electric
 * Clara is considering what kind of companion she is, probably because of her recent fall out with the Doctor in Kill the Moon.


 * COMIC: Empire's Fall


 * COMIC: The Big Hush


 * TV: Flatline
 * After the TARDIS exterior shrinks with him still inside, the Doctor has Clara carry the shrunken TARDIS in her handbag while they and Rigsy deal with the Boneless. During his predicament, the Doctor learns that Clara has been lying to him and Danny after the events of Mummy on the Orient Express.


 * COMIC: The Eye of Torment


 * COMIC: The Instruments of War
 * Clara mentions "carrying [the Doctor] around next to [her] hairbrush and keys last week", placing this after Flatline.


 * COMIC: Doctor in a Bottle
 * The Doctor is picking Clara up from Coal Hill School.


 * COMIC: Zorgo the Terrible
 * The Doctor and Clara foil a plot by Zorgo the Terrible.


 * AUDIO: The Gods of Winter
 * The Doctor and Clara meet Diana Winter.


 * COMIC: Gangland


 * COMIC: Doctor on the Menu
 * The Doctor is picking Clara up from Coal Hill School.


 * COMIC: Trust


 * COMIC: Unearthly Things


 * TV: In the Forest of the Night
 * When the world is overran by trees, Danny discovers Clara is still travelling with the Doctor after assuming they hadn't been speaking for three months. Once the crisis is averted, Danny tells Clara to go home and "think about it" before telling him the truth.


 * COMIC: Space Invaders!


 * PROSE: All the Empty Towers
 * Clara mentions the events of In the Forest of the Night.


 * COMIC: Blood and Ice


 * TV: Dark Water
 * Danny is killed in a hit and run when Clara calls him to explain everything to do with her travels. To help Clara find closure, the Doctor takes her to the 3W Institute and learns that, now in a female body and calling himself "Missy", is preparing to invade London with the Cybermen, leading directly into Death in Heaven.


 * TV: Death in Heaven
 * Missy, who is revealed to be the one who gave Clara the Doctor's phone number, is captured by UNIT as the Cybermen take flight, and the Doctor is made "President of Earth" in the face of the Cybermen rising from the graves. Missy kills one of the Osgoods, while Danny, having fought off the cyber-conversion, sacrifices himself to stop the Cybermen, and Missy is apparently killed by a cyber-resurrected Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart after giving the Doctor the coordinates to Gallifrey. Wanting the Doctor to return to Gallifrey, Clara lies about Danny using the Nethersphere to restore his life, and the two part ways again.


 * TV: Last Christmas
 * Clara is collected by the Doctor during an encounter with Santa Claus, and explains that the two are being attacked by Dream crabs. Encouraged by a dream of her growing old alone, Clara returns to the TARDIS after she and the Doctor tell each other the truth about Gallifrey and Danny being lost to them.


 * COMIC: The Partying of the Ways
 * The Doctor throws Clara a surprise birthday party with duplicates of herself, including the Elderly Clara from Last Christmas.


 * COMIC: Silver Screenesis


 * COMIC: Zorgo the Terrible
 * The Doctor and Clara admire some dogs, not realising that they were almost trapped in a time eddy by Zorgo.


 * COMIC: Briarwood
 * The Doctor and Clara steal the portrait of Lady Josephine, which takes on a life of her own due to animae particles. The Doctor takes the painting, calling herself Josie Day, to his old cottage to meet the Eighth Doctor.


 * AUDIO: The Gods of Winter
 * Clara references Danny's death.


 * COMIC: Selfie


 * COMIC: A Matter of Life and Death
 * The Doctor checks on his eighth incarnation and Josie with Clara. The Doctor has shorter hair and is hiding his softer side from Clara behind a grumpy demeanour, setting this before The Hyperion Empire.


 * COMIC: Spirits of the Jungle
 * Clara is on speaking terms with the Doctor, and states that Danny Pink is dead, placing this after Last Christmas.


 * AUDIO: The House of Winter


 * COMIC: Zorgo the Terrible
 * The Doctor is reencountered by Zorgo, and has to deal with his time dragon, leading directly into Super Gran.


 * COMIC: Super Gran
 * Zorgo's time dragon takes the Doctor and Clara to the Doctor's old friend, Gertie, and she and her grandson, Charlie Baker, take a brief trip to Mars in the TARDIS.


 * PROSE: Sunset Over Venus
 * Devika mentions the events of Kill the Moon.


 * AUDIO: The Sins of Winter


 * COMIC: The Hyperion Empire
 * The Doctor still traveling with Clara and has previously been "President of Earth", setting this after Last Christmas.


 * AUDIO: The Memory of Winter


 * COMIC: Hyperballad


 * COMIC: Relative Dimensions


 * PROSE: Royal Blood


 * COMIC: The Board Games
 * The Doctor is picking Clara up from her flat.


 * PROSE: Deep Time
 * The Doctor recalls the events of Royal Blood and is depicted with the clothes he wore in Last Christmas.


 * TV: The Magician's Apprentice 


 * TV: The Witch's Familiar
 * The Doctor has replaced his sonic screwdriver with sonic sunglasses.


 * COMIC: Beauty Sleep
 * The Doctor picks up Clara from Coal Hill School.


 * TV: Under the Lake


 * TV: Before the Flood


 * COMIC: Day of the Tune
 * Ending leads directly into The Meddling of Clara's Song.


 * COMIC: The Meddling of Clara's Song
 * Ending leads directly into The Abominable Showmen.


 * COMIC: The Abominable Showmen
 * As The Magician's Apprentice made it clear Clara had not seen Missy since the events of Death in Heaven, The Abominable Showmen has to be set after the events of The Witch's Familiar. Ending leads directly into The Five Masters.


 * COMIC: The Five Masters
 * Ending leads directly into One! Two! Three! Four! To Doomsday.


 * COMIC: One! Two! Three! Four! To Doomsday


 * COMIC: Epilogopolis
 * Follows on from One! Two! Three! Four! To Doomsday.


 * COMIC: The Highgate Horror


 * COMIC: Time and PR in Space


 * TV: The Girl Who Died
 * After remembering where he got his face and what it stands for, the Doctor uses Mire technology to render a young Viking girl, Ashildr, immortal and unable to age.


 * TV: The Woman Who Lived


 * TV: The Zygon Invasion
 * Clara is replaced by a Zygon, leading directly into The Zygon Inversion.


 * TV: The Zygon Inversion


 * COMIC: Clara Oswald and the School of Death
 * It is September 2015. The presence of two Osgoods places this after The Zygon Inversion.


 * COMIC: The Dragon Lord


 * COMIC: Theatre of the Mind


 * COMIC: Witch Hunt
 * It is Halloween Night in Clara's time, and she opens an IT suite in Danny's memory, stating that doing so has given her closure over his death.


 * TV: Sleep No More


 * COMIC: The Fourth Wall


 * COMIC: The Day at the Doctors


 * COMIC: The Faceless Two


 * COMIC: Surfshock


 * COMIC: Planet of the Rude


 * TV: Face the Raven
 * Reuniting with Rigsy and Ashildr, Clara is killed by a Quantum Shade.

Travels with Ashildr

 * TV: Hell Bent
 * The Doctor uses his power as Lord President of Gallifrey to save Clara from the Quantum Shade using a extraction chamber. However, he forces himself to lose his memories of Clara when he realises how far he went to get her back.


 * Clara spends an indeterminate amount of time with Ashildr going "the long way round" in a TARDIS before ultimately going back to Gallifery to meet her fate on the trap street.