Theory:Timeline - Time Lords

This page lists appearances of Time Lords other than the Doctor and the Master (unless one of them is on official business) 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 cannot 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 and before AUDIO: Enemy Lines.

Series basics
Time Lord stories can very roughly be sorted 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: Blind Fury
 * AUDIO: The Horror at Bletchington Station
 * There's an early unmanned Gallifreyan time probe.


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


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


 * AUDIO: Empire of the Racnoss
 * The Time Lords are at war with the Racnoss.


 * PROSE: Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday
 * PROSE: The Scrolls of Rassilon
 * PROSE: Remembrance of the Daleks (flashback)
 * PROSE: Lungbarrow (flashback)
 * COMIC: Star Death
 * COMIC: 4-D War
 * COMIC: Black Sun Rising
 * COMIC: Blood Invocation (Gallifrey perspective)
 * COMIC: The Stolen TARDIS
 * COMIC: Minatorius
 * PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet (flashback)
 * The Time Lords create the Web of Time, which brings logic and order to the universe.


 * PROSE: Dharmayuddha
 * The anchoring of the thread.


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


 * PROSE: Entertaining Mr. O
 * Iris Wildthyme, in several incarnations, is summoned to the Death Zone to deal with Morbius.


 * PROSE: The Return of the King
 * Thessalia remembers the Imperator's rise.


 * PROSE: Warmonger
 * PROSE: Newtons Sleep (Thessalia's perspective)
 * Describes the fall of the Imperator.

The First Doctor

 * PROSE: Cold Fusion / AUDIO: Cold Fusion (flashback)
 * AUDIO: The Beginning
 * TV: The Name of the Doctor (flashback)
 * One version of the Doctor's departure.


 * AUDIO: Auld Mortality
 * AUDIO: A Storm of Angels
 * Another version.


 * PROSE: The Massacre

The Second Doctor

 * AUDIO: The Black Hole
 * PROSE: The Time Eater
 * Jamie gets his first look at the Stattenheim remote control, setting this before The Two Doctors. Since Jamie's not described as an adult, and considering the The Two Doctors folllows directly on from World Game, with no plausible gap in between, this must occur during'  The Black Hole.


 * TV: The War Games/ PROSE: Doctor Who and the War Games
 * AUDIO: Exile
 * The Second Doctor forces himself to regenerate into a female incarnation. Eventually, the Time Lords catch up to her. Her existence is undone, with the new timeline's Second Doctor being put on trial rather than escaping.


 * PROSE: World Game
 * PROSE: Players
 * The Doctor becomes a CIA agent.

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 * TV: The Two Doctors / PROSE: The Two Doctors
 * AUDIO: Helicon Prime
 * PROSE: Categorical Imperative
 * PROSE: ''[[That Time I Nearly Destroyed the World Whilst Looking for a Dress (short story)|That
 * COMIC: The Night Walkers
 * PROSE: Time, Love and TARDIS

The Third Doctor

 * PROSE: Prisoners of the Sun
 * TV: Terror of the Autons / PROSE: Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons
 * PROSE: The Tip of the Mind
 * The Doctor is on a mission for the Time Lords.


 * TV: Colony in Space / PROSE: Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon
 * The Doctor is on a mission for the Time Lords.


 * PROSE: Future Imperfect
 * TV: The Three Doctors / PROSE: The Three Doctors
 * PROSE: The Empire of Glass
 * Just after The Three Doctors, synchronously with the Third Doctor.


 * AUDIO: The Inquiry (flashback)
 * Braxiatel has just returned from some ambassadorial missions.

The Fourth Doctor

 * PROSE: A Device of Death
 * TV: The Brain of Morbius / PROSE: Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius
 * TV: The Deadly Assassin / PROSE: Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin
 * AUDIO: The King of Sontar
 * The Doctor is on a mission for the Time Lords.


 * TV: The Invasion of Time / PROSE: Doctor Who and the Invasion of Time
 * Leela and K9 Mark I stay on Gallifrey.


 * PROSE: K9 and the Time Trap
 * PROSE: K9 and the Beasts of Vega
 * PROSE: K9 and the Zeta Rescue
 * PROSE: K9 and the Missing Planet
 * K9 Mark I is working for the Time Lords.

The Fifth Doctor

 * COMIC: The Tides of Time
 * COMIC: The Stockbridge Horror
 * AUDIO: Circular Time: Spring
 * TV: Arc of Infinity / PROSE: Arc of Infinity
 * Leela has already married.


 * AUDIO: Omega
 * TV: The Five Doctors / PROSE: The Five Doctors
 * AUDIO: Time in Office
 * AUDIO: Urban Myths

The Sixth Doctor

 * TV: The Twin Dilemma / PROSE: The Twin Dilemma
 * PROSE: Mission to Magnus / AUDIO: Mission to Magnus
 * AUDIO: The Wings of a Butterfly
 * COMIC: The World Shapers
 * TV: The Mysterious Planet / PROSE: The Mysterious Planet
 * TV: Mindwarp / PROSE: Mindwarp
 * TV: Terror of the Vervoids / PROSE: Terror of the Vervoids
 * TV: The Ultimate Foe / PROSE: The Ultimate Foe
 * PROSE: The Eight Doctors (Sixth Doctor segment)
 * Set during the trial.


 * AUDIO: He Jests at Scars...
 * If the Eighth Doctor hadn't shown up, this would've occurred.


 * AUDIO: The Sirens of Time
 * AUDIO: Peri and the Piscon Paradox
 * AUDIO: Trial of the Valeyard
 * AUDIO: Antidote to Oblivion
 * AUDIO: The Brink of Death

The Seventh Doctor

 * AUDIO: Thin Ice
 * Ace is not allowed into the Academy.


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


 * PROSE: Goth Opera
 * Ruatha deliberately asynchronously involves the Fifth Doctor. She states that by the 20th century time continuum, Gallifrey is long dead.


 * PROSE: The Eight Doctors
 * Flavia is President.


 * PROSE: Happy Endings
 * Romana becomes President.


 * PROSE: Lungbarrow
 * TV: Genesis of the Daleks / PROSE: Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks


 * PROSE: Dead Romance
 * PROSE: Tears of the Oracle
 * PROSE: Where Angels Fear
 * PROSE: Twilight of the Gods
 * PROSE: The Banquo Legacy
 * AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element
 * Vansell is Co-ordinator of the CIA. The Sixth Doctor is the wrong incarnation, and Romana comments on it. Gallifreyan security systems are changed to require a human retinal scan. The Lord President has come back into office after Romana went missing.

The Eighth Doctor

 * TV: Doctor Who / PROSE: The Novel of the Film
 * The Eye of Harmony needs a human retina to open.


 * COMIC: The Final Chapter
 * Rassilon inhabits the Matrix.


 * WC: Shada / AUDIO: Shada
 * PROSE: The Time Lord's Story
 * AUDIO: The Crystal of Cantus (Irving segment)
 * Hallan and Darkel are around.


 * AUDIO: Neverland
 * Vansell dies.


 * AUDIO: Zagreus
 * Rassilon escapes the Matrix.


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


 * AUDIO: Square One


 * AUDIO: The Inquiry
 * Set two weeks after Weapon of Choice.


 * AUDIO: A Blind Eye


 * AUDIO: Lies
 * Set seven weeks after A Blind Eye.


 * AUDIO: Spirit
 * AUDIO: Pandora
 * AUDIO: Insurgency
 * AUDIO: The Chaos Pool
 * Later Graceless stories establish that Amy attends the Academy under Valyes.


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


 * AUDIO: Annihilation
 * AUDIO: Forever
 * AUDIO: Emancipation
 * AUDIO: Evolution
 * AUDIO: Arbitration
 * AUDIO: Renaissance
 * AUDIO: Ascension
 * TV: Genesis of the Daleks / PROSE: Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks


 * AUDIO: Dominion
 * Ace, an alien, is allowed into the Academy.

War in Heaven

 * AUDIO: Enemy Lines
 * Pre-divergence scenes and flashbacks to Romana III's world.


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

The War King's Gallifrey

 * PROSE: The Infinity Doctors
 * Romana has long since disappeared to another of the nine Gallifreys. The Master returns and becomes the Magistrate. Umbaste is president.


 * PROSE: Alien Bodies (flashbacks from Qixotl and the Shift)
 * The War begins in the Cataclysm.


 * PROSE: Newtons Sleep
 * The Second Wave is devastating Faction Paradox (6th year of the War)


 * PROSE: Against Nature
 * The Fourth Wave (y17) exists. The Eleven-Day Empire is still intact.


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


 * PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage
 * Scarratt recalls the war between alternate Romes and alternate Germanys.


 * 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: The Little Drummer Boy
 * Arbitrary positioning. A humanoid timeship appears.


 * PROSE: Head of State (past Burton)
 * Arbitrary positioning. Lolita is spending time on Gallifrey; she has her baby with her.


 * PROSE: The Book of the War (for the authors)
 * 50th year of the War. Mictlan still exists. Justine is being moved from Dronid to Earth.


 * PROSE: Alien Bodies (for the Faction)
 * Justine fails her first mission.


 * AUDIO: The Eleven-Day Empire / The Shadow Play
 * House Tracolix and House Lolita destroy the Eleven-Day Empire.


 * AUDIO: Sabbath Dei / In the Year of the Cat
 * Justine is tried and convicted for the Grandfather's crimes.


 * AUDIO: Movers / A Labyrinth of Histories
 * Justine escapes from the prison-planet.


 * PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5
 * Mictlan is destroyed. The War King is still alive.


 * PROSE: The Book of the War (for the Shift)
 * AUDIO: Coming to Dust
 * Justine is still trying to reestablish the Faction in the 1780s.


 * AUDIO: The Ship of a Billion Years
 * AUDIO: Body Politic
 * AUDIO: Words from Nine Divinities
 * The War King is killed and Lolita becomes Lord President.


 * AUDIO: Ozymandias
 * AUDIO: The Judgment of Sutekh
 * Horus invades Gallifrey with his Osirian army. He says Lolita won't be a concern anymore.

Romana's Gallifrey

 * Romana III is unwittingly transferred to the ninth Gallifrey.


 * AUDIO: Intervention Earth
 * Braxiatel saves Romana and Omega returns.


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


 * PROSE: The Ancestor Cell
 * Romana's Gallifrey is destroyed. The Eleven-Day Empire still exists.

Post-War Universe

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


 * PROSE: Escape Velocity
 * The Doctor emerges from his 100-year exile on Earth.


 * PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
 * The Doctor sees Gallifrey in the Kingdom of Beasts.


 * WC: Death Comes to Time
 * There are very few Time Lords left, and their role in reality is being replaced.


 * PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles
 * The Doctor is planning to restore Gallifrey.


 * PROSE: Father Time
 * In the far future, the last surviving Time Lord (implied to be the Doctor) ruled the universe from the Needle.


 * PROSE: The Year of Intelligent Tigers
 * COMIC: Miranda
 * PROSE: Sometime Never...

A War to Come

 * AUDIO: Enemy Lines
 * Pre-divergence scenes and last timeline. Romana II steps down from the Presidency.


 * AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks
 * Lucie Miller is deposited in the Doctor's TARDIS.


 * AUDIO: Human Resources
 * AUDIO: Sisters of the Flame
 * AUDIO: The Vengeance of Morbius
 * The Sisterhood of Karn starts to become involved in politics.


 * AUDIO: Nevermore
 * The Doctor is on a mission for the Time Lords.


 * AUDIO: The Great War
 * According to The Death of Hope, Straxus is Coordinator of the CIA.


 * AUDIO: Fugitives
 * AUDIO: Tangled Web
 * AUDIO: X and the Daleks
 * Straxus dies, so probably chronologically later than the beginning of the War. Daleks and Time Lords are taking aggressive, temporal action against each other.


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


 * AUDIO: The Reviled
 * AUDIO: Masterplan
 * AUDIO: Rule of the Eminence
 * AUDIO: The Monster of Montmartre
 * AUDIO: The Eleven
 * Romana is no longer President, and Farina is the current CIA Coordinator. There are aliens in the Academy. The Doctor describes the current regime as "progressive." The current President is absent.


 * AUDIO: The Satanic Mill
 * AUDIO: The Crucible of Souls
 * Padrac is President.


 * AUDIO: Ship in a Bottle
 * AUDIO: Songs of Love
 * AUDIO: The Side of the Angels
 * AUDIO: Stop the Clock

The Last Great Time War

 * AUDIO:  Celestial Intervention
 * Livia is President and declares the start of the Time War. Romana is the current coordinator of the CIA. Ending leads directly into Soldier Obscura.


 * AUDIO: Soldier Obscura
 * Romana orders Narvin to contact The Master, leading directly into The Devil You Know.


 * AUDIO: The Devil You Know


 * AUDIO: Desperate Measures


 * AUDIO: Havoc


 * AUDIO: Partisans


 * AUDIO: Collateral


 * AUDIO: Assassins


 * PROSE: The Stranger
 * Set during the First Segment of the War.


 * COMIC: The Forgotten (flashback)
 * The Doctor is still in his eighth incarnation, therefore the Time War is in its early days.


 * PROSE: Natural Regression
 * The Doctor is still in his eighth incarnation, but has cut his hair, placing it after The Forgotten.


 * PROSE: Museum Peace
 * The Doctor debates involving himself.


 * AUDIO: The Rulers of the Universe
 * The Time War is ongoing.


 * AUDIO: The Sontaran Ordeal
 * The Time War is ongoing.


 * AUDIO: Day of the Vashta Nerada
 * TV: The Night of the Doctor
 * The Sisterhood of Karn is involved in the Time War, enabling a dying Doctor to regenerate into a warrior.


 * COMIC: Pull to Open
 * COMIC: Outrun
 * COMIC: The Then and the Now
 * COMIC: First Rule
 * COMIC: The Organ Grinder
 * COMIC: Kill God
 * COMIC: Fast Asleep
 * 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
 * AUDIO: The Shadow Vortex
 * AUDIO: The Eternity Cage
 * AUDIO: Eye of Harmony
 * AUDIO: Pretty Lies
 * AUDIO: The Lady of Obsidian
 * AUDIO: The Enigma Dimension
 * COMIC: Four Doctors
 * PROSE: The Stranger
 * PROSE: Engines of War
 * Takes place 400 years after The Night of the Doctor.


 * TV: The Last Day
 * Takes place at the Fall of Arcadia before the scenes in The Day of the Doctor.


 * COMIC: Sky Jacks
 * Priyan tells Engin that Rassilon is initiating the Ultimate Sanction, placing it just before The End of Time.


 * TV: The End of Time
 * Set on the last day of the Time War. Dalek saucers are already on Gallifrey, placing it after The Last Day.


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


 * TV: The Time of the Doctor
 * Gallifrey is still outside the normal universe.

The End of the Universe

 * PROSE: Lords and Masters
 * General Kenossium is still in his male incarnation.


 * TV: Heaven Sent
 * The Doctor's Confession Dial is transferred to Gallifrey. Ending leads directly into Hell Bent.


 * TV: Hell Bent
 * Gallifrey has escaped the pocket universe and is now situated at the end of the Universe. The General regenerates into a female incarnation.


 * COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen
 * Gallifrey is situated beyond the frontier in time.


 * COMIC: The Clockwise War
 * General Kenossium is in her Hell Bent incarnation.

Unplaced

 * AUDIO: Second Sight


 * AUDIO: Emancipation