Theory:Timeline - Time Lords

This page lists appearances of Time Lords other than the Doctor and (usually) the Master in chronological order. 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 as much as possible, but still with exceptions, that Time Lords meet in the same order. These cases will be noted. In many cases there are sequences of stories from different Time Lords' perspectives, where individual stories can not be compared.

Looms
Any story where looms are the dominant method of reproduction on Gallifrey must take place before PROSE: Lungbarrow.

President
Any story involving Romana as president must take place after PROSE: Happy Endings.

Series basics
Time Lord stories can very roughly be sorted into series based on medium / series
 * Doctor Who stories set on Gallifrey
 * Doctor Who stories featuring individual Time Lords
 * Non-Doctor Who stories featuring individual Time Lords.
 * Big Finish Gallifrey audio stories

Old Time

 * PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (flashback)
 * Rassilon overthrows the Pythia.


 * COMIC: The Final Chapter (flashback)
 * The Rassilon Era begins with Year Zero.


 * PROSE: The Pit (flashback)
 * The Time Lords fight the Yssgaroth.


 * PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet (flashback)
 * The Time Lords create the Web of Time, which brings logic and order to the universe.

The Doctor's Era

 * TV: The War Games
 * PROSE: World Game
 * PROSE: The Two Doctors
 * TV: Terror of the Autons
 * The Time Lords warn the Doctor of the Master's arrival on Earth.


 * TV: The Three Doctors
 * Omega attempts to return from the anti-matter universe.


 * TV: The Deadly Assassin
 * The Time Lords learn the Eye of Harmony is beneath the Panopticon.


 * TV: The Invasion of Time
 * Leela stays on Gallifrey.


 * TV: Arc of Infinity
 * Leela has already married.


 * TV: The Five Doctors
 * TV: The Mysterious Planet
 * TV: Mindwarp
 * TV: Terror of the Vervoids
 * TV: The Ultimate Foe
 * AUDIO: Trial of the Valeyard
 * AUDIO: Thin Ice
 * Ace is not allowed into the Academy.


 * PROSE: Blood Harvest
 * Romana returns from E-Space.


 * PROSE: Goth Opera
 * Occurs after Blood Harvest for Romana. Ruatha states that by the 20th century time continuum, Gallifrey is long dead.


 * PROSE: Happy Endings
 * Romana becomes President.


 * PROSE: Lungbarrow
 * AUDIO: The Sirens of Time
 * AUDIO: Thin Ice
 * Ace isn't allowed into the Academy.


 * AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element
 * Vansell is Co-ordinator of the CIA. The Sixth Doctor is the wrong incarnation, and Romana comments on it. Must be before TV: Doctor Who, where a human retinal scan is required to open the Eye of Harmony.


 * AUDIO: Neverland
 * Vansell dies.


 * AUDIO: Zagreus


 * AUDIO: Weapon of Choice
 * Leela is no longer pregnant. Narvin is the new head of the CIA.


 * AUDIO: Square One
 * AUDIO: The Inquiry
 * AUDIO: A Blind Eye


 * AUDIO: Lies
 * AUDIO: Spirit
 * AUDIO: Pandora
 * AUDIO: Insurgency
 * AUDIO: The Chaos Pool
 * AUDIO: UNIT: Dominion

Ace
Ace temporarily leaves Gallifrey.
 * AUDIO: Good Night Sweet Ladies
 * AUDIO: Random Ghosts
 * AUDIO: The Lights of Skaro
 * AUDIO: The Vaults of Osiris
 * AUDIO: The Eye of Horus
 * AUDIO: The Tears of Isis

Gallifrey

 * AUDIO: Imperiatrix
 * AUDIO: Fractures
 * AUDIO: Warfare
 * AUDIO: Appropriation
 * AUDIO: Mindbomb
 * AUDIO: Panacea
 * AUDIO: Reborn
 * AUDIO: Disassembled
 * PROSE: Dragons' Wrath

Irving
Irving separates from the rest of the gang.
 * AUDIO: Judgement Day
 * AUDIO: Paradise Frost
 * AUDIO: Vesuvius Falling
 * AUDIO: Everybody Loves Irving
 * PROSE: Filthy Lucre
 * AUDIO: The Curse of Fenman
 * AUDIO: The Brimstone Kid
 * AUDIO: In Living Memory

Gallifrey

 * AUDIO: Annihilation
 * AUDIO: Forever
 * AUDIO: Emancipation
 * AUDIO: Evolution
 * AUDIO: Arbitration
 * AUDIO: Renaissance
 * AUDIO: Ascension
 * TV: Genesis of the Daleks

Intervention Earth-world

 * AUDIO: Enemy Lines
 * Pre-divergence scenes and Intervention Earth-world flashback.


 * AUDIO: Intervention Earth
 * A Braxiatel saves Romana and Omega returns, which starts a catastrophic war.


 * AUDIO: Enemy Lines
 * Ace/Narvin post-Intervention Earth execution scene.


 * AUDIO: Luna Romana (audio story)
 * Romana is preparing for what is presumably the war brought on by Omega's return.

post-Intervention Earth-world timeline

 * AUDIO: Enemy Lines
 * Pre-divergence scenes, Intervention Earth-world Leela and Braxiatel, and first post-Intervention Earth timeline.

The War - Take one

 * AUDIO: Enemy Lines
 * Pre-divergence scenes and last timeline.


 * PROSE: Toy Story
 * The War is coming, but hasn't started yet. Lolita is anthropomorphic. Note that someone other than Romana (possibly Livia) is Head of the Presidency when the War begins.


 * PROSE: Warring States
 * 41st year of the War/AF 285.


 * PROSE: Warlords of Utopia
 * 46th year of the War/AF 290.


 * AUDIO: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel
 * Arbitrary positioning. The War is ongoing, the Faction exists enough to care about, Cwejen are in use. Straxus isn't dead, tentatively placing the War before Dark Eyes.


 * PROSE: Of the City of the Saved...
 * PROSE: Unification Theory
 * AF 291.


 * PROSE: This Town Will Never Let Us Go
 * Mad Norwegian Press convention was that each book was set before its predecessor.


 * PROSE: The Book of the War
 * Published in the 50th year of the War/AF 294.


 * PROSE: The Night is Long, and Dreams Are Legion
 * Circa AF 295. Morrison feels pain.


 * AUDIO: The Eleven-Day Empire
 * AUDIO: The Shadow Play
 * AUDIO: Sabbath Dei
 * AUDIO: In the Year of the Cat
 * AUDIO: Movers
 * AUDIO: A Labyrinth of Histories
 * AUDIO: Coming to Dust
 * AUDIO: The Ship of a Billion Years
 * AUDIO: Body Politic
 * AUDIO: Words from Nine Divinities
 * AUDIO: Ozymandias
 * AUDIO: The Judgement of Sutekh

The War - Take two

 * PROSE: Alien Bodies
 * The Protocols of Linearity break down, and a Time Lord from after Ascension is involved with War-era events.


 * PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon
 * Romana II regenerates into a more ruthless incarnation to prepare for the War.


 * PROSE: The Ancestor Cell
 * A version of Faction Paradox that has become little more than a parody of its former self invades Gallifrey.


 * COMIC: Political Animals
 * COMIC: Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses
 * The War is over.


 * PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles
 * Gallifrey is restored after this story.

Gallifrey

 * AUDIO: Human Resources
 * AUDIO: Sisters of the Flame
 * AUDIO: The Vengeance of Morbius
 * AUDIO: The Great War
 * AUDIO: Fugitives
 * AUDIO: Tangled Web
 * AUDIO: X and the Daleks
 * Straxus dies, so chronologically later than the beginning of the War.


 * AUDIO: Time's Horizon
 * AUDIO: Eyes of the Master
 * AUDIO: The Death of Hope
 * Narvin is in charge of the CIA.


 * AUDIO: The Reviled
 * AUDIO: Masterplan
 * AUDIO: Rule of the Eminence
 * AUDIO: The Monster of Montmartre
 * AUDIO: Master of the Daleks
 * AUDIO: The Eleven
 * Romana's second term is referred to, so after The Shadows of Avalon.


 * AUDIO: The Satanic Mill

Last Great Time War

 * AUDIO: The Rulers of the Universe
 * PROSE: Museum Peace
 * TV: The Night of the Doctor
 * AUDIO: The Innocent
 * AUDIO: The Thousand Worlds
 * AUDIO: The Heart of the Battle
 * AUDIO: Legion of the Lost
 * AUDIO: A Thing of Guile
 * AUDIO: The Neverwhen
 * PROSE: Engines of War
 * TV: The Last Day
 * The Daleks manage to invade Gallifrey, beginning the last day of the Time War.


 * TV: The End of Time
 * Rassilon attempts to break the time lock.


 * TV: The Day of the Doctor
 * The General mentions Rassilon's plan has already failed. Gallifrey becomes lost in a pocket universe.

After the Time War

 * TV: The Time of the Doctor
 * TV: Heaven Sent