1854

On 25 October 1854, the Doctor witnessed the Charge of the Light Brigade, which he remembered as a "magnificent folly". It may have been while witnessing this event that the Doctor sustained a wound which still bothered him in his third incarnation. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks, The Sea Devils)

On 5 November, Mollie Dawson's uncle was killed at the Battle of Inkerman. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks) Nathaniel Whitlock's father fought in the same battle. (AUDIO: Moonflesh)

James Clerk Maxwell began his studies of electromagnetism, upon which Theodore Maxtible and Edward Waterfield based their own experiments. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks)