16 April

On 16 April 1746, the Second Doctor, Ben Jackson and Polly Wright arrived in Scotland just after the Battle of Culloden, where they encountered a small band of Jacobites who were fleeing the battlefield with their wounded Laird. (TV: The Highlanders)

Behind the scenes

 * 1907 - Actor Martin Boddey was born.
 * 1931 - Actor Godfrey James was born.
 * 1936 - Script editor and producer Derrick Sherwin was born.
 * 1954 - Script editor Antony Root was born.
 * 1960 - Actor Ricco Ross was born.
 * 1966 - "The Dancing Floor" was first broadcast on BBC1.
 * 1994 - Actor Frank Wylie died.
 * 2005 - Aliens of London was first broadcast on BBC One. Later, CON: I Get a Side-Kick Out of You aired on BBC Three.
 * 2005 - The BBC confirmed that David Tennant would play the [Tenth Doctor.
 * 2007 - Issue forty-two of Doctor Who: Battles in Time, including comic story The Creative Spark, was first released by GE Fabbri Ltd.
 * 2008 - Big Finish audio story The Boy That Time Forgot finished recording.