Theory:Timeline - CyberHive

This page lists the Doctor Who universe timeline of Cybermen as given by the CyberHive of The ArcHive Tapes. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories.

Timeline

 * 15 billion years ago, the universe is born. (AUDIO: Origins of the Cybermen)
 * 10 billion years later, an aging sun at the edge of a certain galaxy expires in an explosion, resulting in the birth of many new stars including Sol. (AUDIO: Origins of the Cybermen)
 * 5 billion years later, humans evolve on the planet Earth. (AUDIO: Origins of the Cybermen)


 * Gallifrey - TV: The Five Doctors
 * NOTE: Gallifreyan civilisation exists far in the past of the 20th century time continuum. (PROSE: Goth Opera)


 * 1970s - TV: The Invasion
 * HEGELIA (The Early Cybermen): The period was sometime during the 1970s AD.


 * 1985 - TV: Attack of the Cybermen
 * 1986 - TV: The Tenth Planet
 * 1988 - TV: Silver Nemesis
 * Around the year 1990 by Hegelia's reckoning, the CyberNomads' begin a two century period of proliferation throughout Mutter's Spiral. (AUDIO: The Cyber Nomads)


 * c. 2030 - TV: The Wheel in Space
 * 2070 - TV: The Moonbase
 * HEGELIA (The Early Cybermen): The scene of this encounter (The Moonbase) is set some four decades on (from The Wheel in Space), in 2070 AD.
 * Around the year 2190 by Hegelia's reckoning, the CyberNomads' period of proliferation ends. (AUDIO: The Cyber Nomads)


 * Late 25th century - TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen
 * HEGELIA (The Cyber Nomads): The expedition party that landed on Telos at the end of the 25th century was surprisingly small-scale.


 * Late 25th century - TV: Revenge of the Cybermen
 * HEGELIA (The Cyber Nomads): For the purpose of this chronology, I place it at the end of the 25th century. We are told that it was on day three of the 47th week of the unknown year that Doctor 4 materialised in a sealed-off section of Nerva.


 * 2526 - TV: Earthshock
 * HEGELIA (The Ultimate Cybermen): So, in the year 2526 A.D., an interstellar conference took place on Earth under conditions of the utmost security.


 * 26th century - TV: Attack of the Cybermen
 * HEGLEIA (The Ultimate Cybermen): When the Doctor was made to transport the Cybermen in the TARDIS to the 26th century and Telos...