Theory:Timeline - 21st century

This page lists the order of stories set on Earth, it's moon or anything else in it's orbit in the 21st century. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories. It is assumed that if "Modern Day" stories do not provide any information on when it is placed (day, month, year) then it probably takes place when the story was released. This page is split into two sections, the prime timeline and other timelines. The "prime" timeline is the timeline which most closely mirrors the real world, most stories which portray the early 21st century in a way similar to reality are placed here. The "other" timelines section features stories which are utterly impossible to reconcile with the "prime" timeline and stories which take place in alternate timelines/universes.

2000
January
 * TV: Doctor Who: The Movie/PROSE: The Novel of the Film
 * Most of this story takes place in 1999, but the ending takes place in the new millenium.


 * COMIC: The Forgotten - Misdirection
 * The millennial countdown on the Eiffel Tower displays "AD 2000".

February March June
 * COMIC: Prisoners of Time #8 (beginning)
 * AUDIO: The Marian Conspiracy (part 1)
 * AUDIO: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor

2001
January
 * COMIC: The Fallen

2002
February July August September October November
 * AUDIO: The Fearmonger
 * AUDIO: Comeback
 * AUDIO: The Tao Connection
 * AUDIO: Test of Nerve
 * AUDIO: Ghost Town
 * AUDIO: Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre

2003
January April August December
 * AUDIO: Jubilee (final scene)
 * AUDIO: Doctor Who and the Pirates
 * AUDIO: The Shadow of the Scourge
 * AUDIO: Catch-1782 (modern scenes)

2004
June November December
 * AUDIO: The Transit of Venus (flashback)
 * AUDIO: Project: Lazarus (parts 1 & 2)
 * PROSE: Spookasem
 * PROSE: Last Minute Shopping

2005
April March December
 * COMIC: The Flood
 * TV: Rose
 * TV: Love & Monsters (flashback)
 * TV: The End of the World (Rose calls Jackie who is in modern day)
 * AUDIO: One Rule
 * AUDIO: Death in Blackpool

2006
January March May July
 * AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks (mentioned only)
 * TV: Aliens of London/World War Three (exactly 1 year after Rose)
 * TV: Love & Monsters (flashback)
 * PROSE: Only Human
 * AUDIO: Orbis (opening scene)
 * Six months after Lucie Miller was returned to her proper time.

September November December
 * TV: Boom Town
 * TV: The Parting of the Ways (Rose looks into the heart of the TARDIS in modern day)
 * TV: The Christmas Invasion 
 * TV: Love & Monsters (flashback)

2007
January February March
 * TV: New Earth (beginning)
 * TV: School Reunion
 * TV: Love & Monsters (flashback)
 * TV: Love & Monsters (flashback)
 * TV: Love & Monsters (flashback)
 * TV: The Lost Boy/PROSE: The Lost Boy (flashback)
 * Sarah Jane Smith created Mr Smith 18 months before The Lost Boy

April May June July August September October November December
 * TV: Love & Monsters (flashback)
 * TV: Love & Monsters (flashback)
 * TV: Love & Monsters
 * TV: Blink
 * TV: Army of Ghosts/Doomsday
 * TV: Everything Changes
 * TV: Day One
 * TV: Ghost Machine
 * TV:  Cyberwoman
 * TV:  Small Worlds 
 * TV:  Countrycide 
 * TV: The Family of Blood (final scene)
 * COMIC: The Weeping Angels of Mons (final scene)
 * TV: Greeks Bearing Gifts
 * TV: They Keep Killing Suzie 
 * TV: Random Shoes
 * TV: Out of Time
 * TV: The Runaway Bride

2008
January February March April May June July August September
 * TV: Combat
 * PROSE: Speech Day
 * TV: Captain Jack Harkness
 * TV: End of Days
 * TV: Utopia (opening scene)
 * AUDIO: The Condemned
 * TV: Invasion of the Bane/ PROSE: Invasion of the Bane
 * TV: Revenge of the Slitheen/ PROSE: Revenge of the Slitheen
 * TV: Smith and Jones
 * TV: The Lazarus Experiment
 * TV: 42 (phone call to modern day)
 * TV: Eye of the Gorgon/ PROSE: Eye of the Gorgon
 * TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
 * TV: Warriors of Kudlak/ PROSE: Warriors of Kudlak
 * TV: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
 * TV: The Lost Boy/ PROSE: The Lost Boy
 * PROSE: The Deviant Strain
 * Takes places 20 years after the Soviet Union began having reductions in the funding of it's military. (1988)

December
 * AUDIO: The Raincloud Man
 * TV: Voyage of the Damned

2009
January February March April May
 * TV: Sleeper
 * TV: To the Last Man
 * TV: Meat
 * TV: Adam
 * TV: Reset
 * TV: Dead Man Walking
 * TV: A Day in the Death
 * TV: Something Borrowed 
 * PROSE: Skypoint
 * PROSE: Plant Life
 * TV: Partners in Crime
 * TV: From Out of the Rain
 * TV: Planet of the Dead
 * TV: Adrift 
 * TV: Fragments (TV story)/Exit Wounds (TV story) (modern day scenes)
 * TV: The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky 
 * TV: Prisoner of the Judoon/ PROSE: Judoon Afternoon
 * TV: Dalek
 * Daleks are not commonly known.

June
 * TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
 * TV: The Mad Woman in the Attic 
 * TV: The Stolen Earth/Journey's End
 * TV: The Eternity Trap/ PROSE: The Haunted House
 * TV: Mona Lisa's Revenge/ PROSE: [[Painting Peril (novelisation)|Painting Peril]''
 * TV: The Gift/ PROSE: Blathereen Dream
 * Rani Chandra and Clyde Langer are doing GCSEs.

September
 * TV: Children of Earth
 * Epilogue in March 2010.


 * TV: The God Complex (ending)
 * Amy Pond and Rory Williams begin living in the house given to them by the 11th Doctor.

October November May December
 * TV: The Last Sontaran/ PROSE: The Last Sontaran
 * TV: The Day of the Clown/ PROSE: The Day of the Clown
 * TV: Secrets of the Stars
 * COMIC: Revolutions of Terror
 * TV: The Mark of the Berserker
 * COMIC: Echo
 * COMIC: The Fountains of Forever/Spiral Staircase
 * TV: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
 * TV: Enemy of the Bane
 * The End of Time All in modern day. Donna's wedding in March 2010.

2010
January June July September October November December
 * AUDIO: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster
 * TV: The Pandorica Opens (TV story)/The Big Bang (TV story) (Amy and Rory's wedding)
 * AUDIO: Situation Vacant
 * TV: The Nightmare Man (TV story) 
 * TV: The Vault of Secrets (TV story)
 * TV: Death of the Doctor (TV story)
 * TV: The Empty Planet (TV story)
 * TV: Lost in Time (TV story)
 * TV: Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith
 * AUDIO: Find and Replace (part 1)
 * TV: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe (ending scene)
 * Approximately 2 years since The God Complex

2011
January February March April May June July August September December
 * PROSE: The Forgotten Son original opening 
 * PROSE: Shroud of Sorrow (flashback: The funeral of Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart)
 * AUDIO: The Forbidden Time
 * TV: The New World (TV story)
 * TV: Rendition (TV story)
 * TV: Dead of Night (TV story)
 * TV: Escape to LA (TV story)
 * TV: Closing Time (TV story)
 * TV: The Impossible Astronaut (TV story) (modern day scenes)
 * TV: The Wedding of River Song (TV story)
 * TV: Pond Life (April)
 * TV: Pond Life (May)
 * TV: The Categories of Life (TV story)
 * AUDIO: Ferril's Folly
 * TV: A Good Man Goes to War (TV story) Amy and Rory dropped off in modern day at the end.
 * TV: The Middle Men (TV story)
 * TV: Immortal Sins (modern day scenes)
 * TV: Pond Life (June)
 * TV: Pond Life (July)
 * TV: End of the Road
 * AUDIO: Tales from the Vault
 * TV: Let's Kill Hitler (opening scene)
 * TV: Pond Life (August)
 * TV: Night Terrors (TV story)
 * TV: The Gathering (TV story)
 * TV: The Blood Line (TV story)
 * TV: Asylum of the Daleks (TV story) (opening)
 * TV: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story) (modern day scenes)

2012
January June
 * AUDIO: The Curse of Davros (modern scenes)
 * TV: Fear Her (TV story)
 * TV: The Power of Three (TV story) (first July)
 * Kate Stewart's first meeting with the 11th Doctor.

August October
 * PROSE: Magic of the Angels
 * TV: The Power of Three (TV story) (October)

2013
March April May June July August
 * TV: The Bells of Saint John (TV story)
 * TV: The Rings of Akhaten (TV story) (modern day scenes)
 * TV: The Crimson Horror (TV story) (modern day scenes)
 * TV: Nightmare in Silver (TV story) (modern day scenes)
 * TV: The Name of the Doctor (TV story) (modern day scenes)
 * TV: The Power of Three (TV story) (June)
 * TV: The Power of Three (TV story) (second July)
 * AUDIO: UNIT: Extinction
 * Takes place between The Power of Three and The Day of the Doctor.

November December
 * TV: The Day of the Doctor
 * AUDIO: The Time Machine
 * COMIC: Hunters of the Burning Stone
 * TV: The Power of Three (December)
 * TV: The Time of the Doctor (modern day scenes)
 * TV:Deep Breath (ending scene)

2014
January February March July August October November December
 * TV: Into the Dalek (modern day scenes)
 * TV: Listen (modern day scenes)
 * TV: Time Heist (opening scene)
 * TV: The Caretaker
 * COMIC: After Life
 * COMIC: What He Wants...  (modern scenes)
 * COMIC: The Eternal Dogfight / The Infinite Astronaut
 * TV: Flatline
 * COMIC: The Fractures
 * TV: In the Forest of the Night
 * TV: Dark Water/Death in Heaven
 * TV: Last Christmas

2015
January May July August September October November
 * AUDIO: Project: Nirvana
 * COMIC: Give Free or Die
 * COMIC: Selfie
 * COMIC: The Comfort of the Good
 * AUDIO: Comeback of the Scorchies
 * TV: The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)/The Witch's Familiar (TV story) (modern day scenes)
 * TV: The Woman who Lived (final scene)
 * AUDIO: The Eight Truths/Worldwide Web (part 1)
 * AUDIO: The Eight Truths/Worldwide Web (parts 2,3,4)
 * TV: The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion
 * It has been approximately two years since Day of the Doctor.

December
 * AUDIO: Forgotten Lives
 * TV: Face the Raven
 * TV: Hell Bent (flashback)
 * TV: Hell Bent
 * PROSE: Big Bang Generation
 * PROSE: In Search of Doctor X
 * PROSE: Haunted

2017
December
 * PROSE: Not in my Back Yard

2018
February
 * COMIC: The Greed of the Gavulav

2019
July
 * COMIC: Arctic Eclipse

2020
September
 * AUDIO: House of Blue Fire

2025
April May
 * AUDIO: Project: Destiny
 * AUDIO: Project: Destiny

2029
July
 * AUDIO: Shield of the Jötunn

2045
November
 * AUDIO: The Word Lord

2048
April
 * COMIC: Blood and Ice

2049
October
 * TV: Kill the Moon

2059
November
 * TV: The Waters of Mars

2070
February
 * TV: The Moonbase

2071
May
 * AUDIO: Scavenger

2079
April
 * TV: The Wheel in Space

2080

 * AUDIO: Loups-Garoux

2084

 * TV: Warriors of the Deep

2099

 * PROSE: Snowglobe 7

Point of no return timeline

 * PROSE:'Cat's Cradle: Warhead''
 * Environmentally, Earth is approaching the point of no return in the early 21st century, the "not too distant" future of 1992.

2006
 * PROSE: Iceberg
 * All diseases in the world are called "the plague" and FLIPback is meant to fix an approaching catastrophe.

Eurozone Timeline
2003 2005 2006 2010 2012 2015 2050 2060
 * AUDIO: Minuet in Hell
 * PROSE: How You Get There
 * PROSE: The Last Broadcast
 * PROSE: The Terror of the Darkness
 * AUDIO: The Coup
 * AUDIO: Time Heals
 * AUDIO: Snake Head
 * AUDIO: The Longest Night
 * AUDIO: The Wasting
 * PROSE: Trading Futures
 * PROSE: Faithful Friends: Part 3
 * AUDIO: Hothouse
 * AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks
 * AUDIO: The Feast of Axos

The timeline in which Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart regains his youth
This really needs a better name!

2003 2010 2012 2050s
 * PROSE: Eternity Weeps
 * PROSE: Happy Endings
 * PROSE: The Shadows of Avslon
 * PROSE: The King of Terror

Dr. Who's Earth
2008
 * PROSE: Voice from the Vortex!

Cracked Timeline

 * When the cracks in time were released into the universe by a potential destruction of The Doctor's TARDIS many events were erased from history and many were created.

2008 2010 2011 2020
 * TV: The Eleventh Hour
 * TV: The Eleventh Hour (ending scene)
 * TV: Flesh and Stone (ending scene)
 * TV: The Vampires of Venice (TV story) (opening scene)
 * TV: The Pandorica Opens (TV story)/The Big Bang (TV story) (modern day scenes)
 * TV: Vincent and the Doctor (TV story) (scenes in the Musée d'Orsay)
 * TV: The Lodger
 * COMIC: The Golden Ones
 * TV: The Hungry Earth (TV story)/Cold Blood (TV story)

UNISYC Timeline
2018 2060s
 * TV: The Enemy of the World
 * PROSE: Alien Bodies

The Year That Never Was
2008 - 2009
 * TV: The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords
 * PROSE: The Story of Martha

The Earth ruled by Phantoms

 * Creatures made of mist came to the 1860s from a future where they were the rulers of a ravaged Earth in order to create the future they came from.

2008
 * AUDIO: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster

Andrea Yates' World
2008
 * TV: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?/PROSE: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?

The Trickster's World
2009
 * TV: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith

Earth destroyed by the Hand of Omega
2015
 * AUDIO: Intervention Earth

New Hyperios

 * In the summer of 2015 a Hyperion scout ship collided with the International Space Station before crashing into the lake of Windermere. From the ashes of Windermere the Hyperions took over Earth. Major cities such as London were burned to a cinder. Humans were either killed and turned into the Scorched or enslaved by neural-usurpers.

2015
 * COMIC: The Hyperion Empire