1984

The Sixth Doctor claimed that 1984 was "never as good as the book" of the same name by George Orwell. (AUDIO: The Reaping)

The Fifth Doctor defeated the Malus in Little Hodcombe. (TV: The Awakening)

Peri Brown and Katherine Chambers graduated from high school in Fell's Point, Baltimore, Maryland. (AUDIO: The Reaping)

On 8 May, the Soviet Union withdrew from the 1984 Olympic Games. (AUDIO: The Reaping)

On 9 May, Turlough returned to Trion, Peri Brown joined the Fifth Doctor on his travels and Kamelion was destroyed. (TV: Planet of Fire, AUDIO: The Reaping)

Between 9 May and 28 September, Peri Brown's mother Janine and Howard Foster divorced. In spite of this, Janine kept her ex-husband's surname for the rest of her life. (AUDIO: The Reaping)

The Olympic Games, which were boycotted by the Soviet Union, were held in Los Angeles. (AUDIO: The Reaping, The Gathering)

During the summer, the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond encountered the Kin in London. (PROSE: Nothing O'Clock)

On 28 September, the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown attended the funeral of Anthony Chambers in Fell's Point, Baltimore, Maryland. (AUDIO: The Reaping)

On 22 December, Ruby Sara Duvall was born. (PROSE: Iceberg)

H.C. Clements was bought by the Torchwood Institute. (TV: The Runaway Bride)

With the TARDIS caught inside a time corridor, the Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka and Turlough arrived in London, where they encountered canisters of Movellan virus and duplicates of humans created by the Daleks. They travelled across the corridor to meet the Daleks and their creator Davros in the future. After witnessing a huge amount of bloodshed in the early days of the Dalek Civil War, Tegan departed from the TARDIS in this year. Commander Lytton escaped from the future alive with his two police guards. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)

Lucie Miller's maternal aunt Patricia Ryder, whom she called "Auntie Pat," was killed by Zygons and replaced by her Zygon husband Trevor. (AUDIO: Grand Theft Cosmos)

Martha Jones was born. (COMIC: The Forgotten)

Indira Gandhi was serving as the Prime Minister of India during this year. As she told the Egyptian Pharaoh Erimem, Peri Brown considered her to be an effective female leader in contrast to her British counterpart and contemporary Margaret Thatcher. Given that Erimem was from the 14th century BC, she had unsurprisingly never heard of either Gandhi or Thatcher. (AUDIO: The Eye of the Scorpion)

In 1964, Ken Temple believed that it would be possible to evacuate 1% of the human population to Venus by this year if all of Earth's fossil fuels and natural resources were used to create an interplanetary fleet. (AUDIO: The Pelage Project)

Albert Marsden retired. He and his wife Peggy subsequently bought a cottage in the north of England. (AUDIO: Protect and Survive)

Ethel Merman died. (AUDIO: The Reaping)

Alternative timeline
In an alternative timeline, Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was assassinated by fellow Conservative Party politician Heathcliffe Bower. However, the proper timeline was restored by the Fifth Doctor. (PROSE: The Assassin's Story)