Theory:Timeline - Doctor Who universe

This page lists the order of stories in the Doctor Who Universe timeline from Event One to the far future. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories.

The layout of this timeline is in part based on the observations on Doctor Who - The Complete Adventures, as well as Lance Parkin's AHistory and other sources that allow us to make observations, such as Doctor Who Reviews, Clive Banks databanks, and LegoK9's timeline. None of these sources should be used solely as a source or considered a "true" timeline for stories.

Timeline rules:
 * Only list stories. References to dates that the story does not take place in are to be excluded
 * Stories without any clear indication of an era should be omitted. (e.g. TV: Mummy on the Orient Express)
 * Many stories will contradict each other, so these contradictions should be noted but treated equally. (e.g. TV: The Enemy of the World and other stories set in 2018)
 * Direct quotes indicating the time period the story takes place should be provided. (Quotes sourced from another story should indicate the story it is from.)

Format (list all available):
 * Day Month Year - MEDIUM: Story title
 * CHARACTER/TEXT/NOTE: Indication of time period

BC years

 * Event One - TV: Castrovalva
 * NYSSA: You don't understand the physics of the situation. We're already caught in the field of Event One. It's pulling us in faster and faster.


 * Event One - TV: Terminus
 * DOCTOR: Enormous. Biggest explosion of all time. Event One.
 * KARI: The Big Bang?


 * Big Bang Two - TV: The Big Bang
 * DOCTOR: There's going to be a very big bang. Big Bang Two.

Prehistory

 * c. 6,000,000,000 - TV: Hide
 * DOCTOR: About six billion years ago. It's a Tuesday, I think.


 * c. 4,600,000,000 - TV: The Runaway Bride
 * DOCTOR: We've gone back four point six billion years. There's no solar system, not yet. Only dust and rocks and gas. That's the Sun, over there. Brand new. Just beginning to burn.


 * c. 400,000,000 - TV: City of Death
 * TANCREDI: Four hundred million years I think is the figure you're looking for.


 * c. 140,000,000 - TV: Time-Flight
 * DOCTOR: Some a hundred and forty million years ago.


 * c. 65,000,000 - TV: Earthshock
 * DOCTOR: It may be of some small consequence to know we've travelled backwards in time some sixty five million years.


 * 100,000 - TV: An Unearthly Child
 * NOTE: 100,000 BC was a working title.


 * 3500 BC - COMIC: The Gods Walk Among Us
 * ARCHAEOLOGIST: Unopened for 5,500 years... until now. Pull!


 * 3300 BC - PROSE: Loop the Loup
 * TEXT: The copper axehead that had no business to be copper in 3,300 BC, cut through the branch after only a few blows.

3rd millennium

 * c. 2500 - TV: The Daleks' Master Plan
 * QUOTE?

2nd millennium

 * c. 1500 - TV: The Time Monster
 * DOCTOR: Yes. Right, Jo, we're about to land back in Cambridge. Just think. It all happened three thousand, five hundred years ago.


 * 1400 - AUDIO: The Eye of the Scorpion
 * NOTE: Indicated in the story synopsis


 * 1334 - TV: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
 * TEXT: Egypt, 1334 BC


 * c. 1200 - TV: The Myth Makers
 * QUOTE?

3rd century

 * 221 - TV: The Angels Take Manhattan
 * TEXT: 221 BC

1st century

 * 27 Exit Wounds
 * GRAY: I want you to suffer. I want your life. This is Cardiff, 27 AD.


 * July 64 - TV: The Romans
 * DOCTOR: Yes. Caesar Nero made it. The rebuilding of Rome. Let me see, where are we now? 64 AD, July. Yes, of course. He sets fire to Rome.


 * 23 -24 August 79 - TV: The Fires of Pompeii
 * DOCTOR: It's 79 AD, twenty third of August, which makes volcano day tomorrow.


 * 23 -24 August 79 - AUDIO: The Fires of Vulcan
 * Takes place during the same events as The Fires of Pompeii.


 * February 80 - TV: The Fires of Pompeii
 * TEXT: Six months later

2nd century

 * 102 - TV: The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang
 * DOCTOR: Just followed the coordinates on the cliff face. Earth. Britain. One oh two am. No, PM. No, AD.


 * 120 - TV: The Eaters of Light
 * BILL: Aberdeen, Scotland, second century AD.

4th century

 * 305 - AUDIO: Seasons of Fear
 * DOCTOR: ...the first instance of the name Grayle appearing in the records, in a British context, was right here, on the payroll of this very Roman fort in 305 AD, the year of the two Emperors, Constantius and Galerius.


 * 312 - COMIC: Conversion
 * CAPTION: Battle of Milvian Bridge, Northern Rome, 312AD.


 * 312 - COMIC: The Comfort of the Good
 * CAPTION: Now Ancient Rome.
 * NOTE: Occurs directly after Conversion.

9th century

 * 8XX - TV: The Girl Who Died
 * ASHILDR (The Woman Who Lived): I've had eight hundred years of adventure, enough to fill a library if you write it down.

11th century

 * 1055 - AUDIO: Seasons of Fear
 * DOCTOR: Ah, one of my favourite times and places. London in the year 1055. The court of King Edward, known as the Confessor.


 * Summer 1066 - TV: The Time Meddler
 * DOCTOR: Now, if Harold is king, and Edward was laid to rest at the beginning of the year, then it must be 1066! Yes. Judging by the appearance of these leaves, late summer. And a balmy night, a balmy night.

12th century

 * 1138 - TV: The Doctor's Meditation / The Magician's Apprentice
 * TEXT: Essex 1138


 * 1190 - TV: The Crusade
 * Third Crusade.


 * Autumn 1190 - TV: Robot of Sherwood
 * DOCTOR: No, no. Time of year? What season?
 * ROBIN: Oh, Dame Autumn has draped her mellow skirts about the forest, Doctor. The time of mists and harvest approaches.
 * DOCTOR: It's 1190.

13th century

 * 1207 - TV: The Bells of Saint John
 * DOCTOR: It's 1207.


 * 4 March 1215 - TV: The King's Demons
 * DOCTOR: March the fourth, 1215.


 * 12XX - TV: The Time Warrior
 * SARAH (The Sontaran Experiment): Linx. A Sontaran. Can't be. You were destroyed in the thirteenth century. You were blown to smithereens.


 * 1289 - TV: Marco Polo
 * POLO: How long have you been travelling? It is twelve hundred and eighty nine and this is the Plain of Pamir, known to those who travel to Cathay as The Roof of the World.

14th century

 * 1348 - TV: The Woman Who Lived
 * DOCTOR: The Black Death, 1348. I meant to warn you.

15th century

 * 25 October 1415 The Woman Who Lived
 * ASHILDR: The Battle of Agincourt. My first stint as a man. No-one will ever know that a mere woman helped end the Hundred Years' War.


 * After 1430 - TV: The Aztecs
 * SUSAN: Well, the Aztecs were Mexicans. We must be on Earth again. I wonder what year it is.
 * BARBARA: He must have died around 1430, I should think.


 * 1492? - TV: The Masque of Mandragora
 * DOCTOR: We've landed on Earth. Glass technology indicates Mediterranean area. Late fifteenth century. Not a very pleasant time.


 * 12 October 1492 - AUDIO: Trouble in Paradise
 * COLUMBUS: The Journal of Admiral Christopher Columbus, the greatest explorer in the world, 12th of October, 1492.

16th century

 * 1505 - TV: City of Death
 * DOCTOR: The original, I presume? Completed in 1503 and it's now what, 1505, and you're getting the old boy to do you another six, yes, which you then brick up in a cellar in Paris for Scarlioni to find in four hundred and seventy four time.


 * 1506 - PROSE: Against Nature
 * TEXT: This was in the year 1-Tochtli (1506).


 * 1522 - COMIC: Dragon's Claw
 * TEXT: It is 1522 A.D., according to the calendar of the western-ocean-devils, but few Europeans are seen on the shores of the East China Sea...


 * 1562 - TV: The Day of the Doctor
 * DOCTOR 10: England, 1562.


 * 19 September 1572 - AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks
 * VIOLA: And on September the nineteenth 1572, at about this time and about half a mile this way, there's the entrance to another mirror.


 * 23 August 1572 - TV: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
 * ANNE: Date, Monsieur? August the twenty-third as
 * DOCTOR: Yes, yes, yes, I know that. The year, the year, hmm?
 * ANNE: Fifteen seventy two, Monsieur. But surely you know that?


 * c. 1570s - WC: Tardisode 2
 * ROBERT (Tooth and Claw): The story goes back three hundred years. Every full moon, the howling rings through the valley. The next morning, livestock is found ripped apart and devoured.


 * 1580 - TV: The Vampires of Venice
 * DOCTOR: Ah, you got to love Venice. So many people did. Byron, Napoleon, Casanova. Ooo, that reminds me. 1580. That's all right. Casanova doesn't get born for a hundred and forty five years. Don't want to run into him. I owe him a chicken.


 * c. 1590 - AUDIO: Point of Entry
 * DOCTOR: Mmm. 1590 local time, or thereabouts. The Elizabethan Age. Now why track the Tardis here?


 * 1599 - TV: The Shakespeare Code
 * DOCTOR: I think so. Round about 1599.

17th century

 * 16XX - COMIC: Devil of the Deep
 * CAPTION: South America in the early 17th century was the gold mine of Spain. But ships found stranger things than gold..


 * 23 November 1638 - TV: Silver Nemesis
 * DOCTOR: Well, in strictly linear terms, as the chronometer flies, I've known since November the twenty third, 1638.


 * 1651 - TV: The Woman Who Lived
 * DOCTOR: Oh, no, this isn't a visit, I've got a job to do. I'm here looking for an alien object which has no business being here on Earth in 1651.


 * 1651 - PROSE: Newtons Sleep
 * TEXT: ...in 1651, a dead angel is found in a tree in Lincolnshire and a nymph rises from the waters of Kent...


 * 16XX - TV: The Smugglers
 * DOCTOR: Yes, I'm afraid you're going to lose your bet, young man. That gentleman comes from the seventeenth century.


 * Between 1660 and 1685 - TV: The Impossible Astronaut
 * KING CHARLES: Where's the Doctor?


 * August 1666 - TV: The Visitation
 * 2 September 1666 - TV: The Visitation
 * The Great Fire of London.


 * 1669 - COMIC: Black Death White Life
 * VILLAGER: It's the year of our lord sixteen hundred and sixty-nine.


 * 1671 - PROSE: Newtons Sleep
 * TEXT: ...in 1671, Aphra Behn -- she-spy and poetesse -- infiltrates a gathering of alchemists...


 * 1 April 1699 - WC: Prequel (The Curse of the Black Spot)
 * AVERY: April the first, 1699.


 * 1 April 1699 - TV: The Curse of the Black Spot
 * DOCTOR: Yes. Okay, problem word. Seventeenth century. My ship automatically, er, noticed-ish that your ship was having some bother.

18th century

 * Between 1702 to 1714 - AUDIO: Doctor Who and the Pirates
 * CAPTAIN SWAN: ...true loyalties... to Queen Anne herself.
 * EVELYN: Queen Anne, lasts of the Stuarts, reigned 1702 to 1714.


 * 1727 - TV: The Girl in the Fireplace
 * REINETTE: Of course I can. Seventeen hundred and twenty-seven.


 * 1745 - TV: The War Games
 * 16 April 1746 - TV: The Highlanders
 * The Battle of Culloden


 * 1753 - TV: The Girl in the Fireplace
 * 1758 - TV: The Girl in the Fireplace
 * 1762 - AUDIO: Sabbath Dei / In the Year of the Cat
 * MARY CULVER - [An invasion] Of 1762. Via Britain.


 * 1763 - AUDIO: A Labyrinth of Histories
 * COMPASSION - I'll explain once you're back here with us. In 1763.


 * 1763 - Coming to Dust / The Ship of a Billion Years
 * PUBLISHER'S SUMMARY: Naples, 1763. The Great Ape of Posto di Foraggio is on show, an exhibition to amuse jaded foreign tourists


 * c. 15 April 1764 - TV: The Girl in the Fireplace
 * LOUIS: Leaving Versailles for the last time. Only forty-three when she died. Too young. Too young. Illness took her in the end. She always did work too hard. What does she say?


 * 1774 - COMIC: Political Animals / COMIC: Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses
 * TEXT: 1774. The Heart of Civilisation.


 * 1782-83 - PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
 * NOTE: Said countless times in text.


 * 23 - 27 July 1794 - TV: The Reign of Terror
 * ROBESPIERRE: But can I trust them? If this motion gets underway, they will turn against me to save their own necks. Mark my words, LeMaitre. If this plot is successful, tomorrow, the 27th of July 1794, will be a date for history.

19th century

 * 1806 - AUDIO: Seasons of Fear
 * DOCTOR: Not in the year 1806. George the Third is on the throne, William Pitt is Prime Minister, and ladies fight with witticisms and the occasional fan. Not with edged weapons.


 * 4 - 5 February 1814 - TV: Thin Ice
 * DOCTOR: Our London. We're on the Thames. The last great Frost Fair. 1814, February the fourth.


 * 1820s - TV: The Mark of the Rani
 * PERI: I could have been stuck in the eighteen hundreds forever.


 * Winter 1842 - TV: The Snowmen
 * England, 1842.


 * 24 December 1851 - TV: The Next Doctor
 * BOY: Christmas Eve, sir. Year of our Lord 1851, sir.


 * October 1853 - PROSE: Spinning Jenny
 * TEXT: October 1853, Strines.


 * January 1854 - PROSE: Spinning Jenny
 * TEXT: January 1854, Strines.


 * 1866 - TV: The Evil of the Daleks
 * 6 October 1866 - COMIC: The Silvering
 * TEXT (The Pictures of Josephine Day): Philippot's Magesterial Delights, Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, 6th October, 1866.


 * 24 December 1869 - TV: The Unquiet Dead
 * DOCTOR: I did it. Give the man a medal. Earth, Naples, December 24th, 1860. ... It's not 1860, it's 1869.


 * c. 1870 - TV: The Making of the Gunslinger
 * Assuming no time travel was involved.


 * 1870 - TV: A Town Called Mercy
 * ISAAC: Them being scared scares me. War only ended five years back. That old violence is still under the surface.


 * 1872 - TV: The Chase
 * IAN: Really? I haven't seen the joke yet, I must say. One thing I did see, by the way. The name of that ship we were on: The Mary Celeste.


 * 1879 - TV: Tooth and Claw
 * DOCTOR: 1879. Same difference


 * 1881 - TV: Empress of Mars
 * DOCTOR: Mars. 1881, or thereabouts. According to the Tardis, that's when the message was made.


 * 26 October 1881 - TV: The Gunfighters
 * The historical gunfight at the O.K. Corral.


 * March 1882 - COMIC: Dead Man's Hand
 * CAPTION: Deadwood, Dakota Territory. March 1882.


 * 1882-83 - PROSE: Erasing Sherlock
 * TEXT: London, 1882, was very different from the world in which I grew to maturity.
 * TEXT: 25 January 1883. 21:10.


 * 1883 - TV: Ghost Light
 * DOCTOR: This is Inspector MacKenzie from Scotland Yard. He was sent here in 1881 to investigate the disappearance of the owner, Sir George Pritchard.
 * ACE: But that was two years ago.


 * 1885 - TV: Timelash
 * DOCTOR: 1179 AD. Add a time deflection coefficient of seven hundred and six years, that is 1885 AD.


 * 1885 - TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp
 * CLEMENCY: It was forty years ago, in the heat of Delhi, late one night. I was alone, and that's when I saw it. I loved him so much, it didn't matter. But he was stolen from me. 1885, the year of the great monsoon.


 * 1887 - COMIC: Gaze of the Medusa
 * CAPTION: London, 1887.


 * 1888 - TV: A Good Man Goes to War
 * London, 1888 A.D.


 * 1889 - COMIC: The Time Machination
 * CAPTION: London, 1889.
 * NOTE: The ending recreates the the Fourth Doctor and Leela's entrance in The Talons of Weng-Chiang.


 * c. 1889 - TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
 * CASEY: Oh, it says in the paper how it could be jollyJack at work again.
 * NOTE: Jack the Ripper's 5 canonical killings were between August and November of 1888.


 * 1 - 3 June 1890 - TV: Vincent and the Doctor
 * BLACK: Well, in that case, probably somewhere between the first and third of June. 1890. Less than a year before, before he killed himself.


 * 1890 - TV: The Pandorica Opens
 * France 1890


 * 26 June 1890 - TV: The Power of Three
 * 26th of June, 1890. The recently opened Savoy Hotel.


 * 27 July 1890 - TV: Vincent and the Doctor
 * Vincent shoots himself.


 * 22 January 1892 - AUDIO: Dust Breeding
 * The date Edvard Munch wrote about seeing the sky turn blood red, as mentioned by characters in the opening.


 * <25 December 1892 - WC: Vastra Investigates
 * JENNY: Well, it is nearly Christmas.


 * c. 25 December 1892 - TV: The Great Detective
 * JENNY: Merry Christmas!


 * 24 - 25 December 1892 - TV: The Snowmen
 * TOMBSTONE: Clara Oswin Oswald. Remember me, we shall meet again. Born November 23 1866, died December 24, 1892.


 * 1893 - TV: The Crimson Horror
 * DOCTOR: Okay, so. Not London 1893. Yorkshire 1893. Near enough.


 * 1893 - TV: Clarence and the Whispermen
 * 1893 - TV: The Name of the Doctor
 * London 1893 - prison cell


 * 1893+ - TV: Deep Breath
 * c. 1899: Fragments
 * GIRL: He's coming, the one you're looking for. But the century will turn twice before you find each other again.
 * JACK: Ooo. Are you for real? You mean I have to wait a hundred years to find him? What'll I do in the meantime?

20th century

 * See main page: Timeline - 20th century

21st century

 * See main page: Timeline - 21st century

22nd century

 * c. 2105 - TV: The End of the World
 * ROSE: One hundred years.
 * DOCTOR: There you go. Step outside those doors, it's the twenty second century.


 * 21XX - TV: Listen
 * DOCTOR: This is Colonel Orson Pink, from about a hundred years in your future.
 * Orson is seen being returned home.


 * 2116 - TV: Nightmare of Eden
 * 21+ November 2119 - TV: Under the Lake / Before the Flood
 * MORAN: Private journal of Captain Jonathan Moran, 21st November 2119. We have located a craft of unknown origin on the lake floor. Visual scans in situ revealed nothing, so we have brought the craft on board and myself and the crew will now investigate.


 * 2134 - PROSE: Urrozdinee
 * MINISTER: I don't believe you, Doctor whoever-you-are. Nor do I believe that anyone in 2134 doesn't know what year it is!


 * 21XX - TV: The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People
 * DOCTOR: You're not a monastery, you're a factory. Twenty second century army-owned factory.


 * 2164 - TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
 * DOCTOR: Ah, here, look. At least we know the century, dear boy. Look.
 * IAN: 2164.


 * c. 2157 - TV: Paradise Towers
 * DOCTOR: You may want to lie by the pool doing nothing all day. I intend to explore. Paradise Towers is supposed to be a remarkable architectural achievement, I'm told. Won all sorts of awards way back in the er, twenty first century. Are you ready?

NOTE: Date based on the novel Lucifer Rising

23rd century

 * 22XX - TV: Vengeance on Varos
 * PERI: I'm from another time, another century. Nearly three centuries before you were born, I lived in another world. I had an idea you wouldn't believe me.


 * 22XX - AUDIO: Night of the Whisper
 * NARRATOR: A waitressing job in a sleazy, 23rd century casino on New Vegas.


 * 2290 - TV: The Leisure Hive
 * ROMANA: It's the first of the leisure planets. In relative Earth date 2250, there's a hideous war against some reptile people called the Foamasi
 * BROCK: Argolis is justly proud of tachyonics, but that science, you will admit, remains, after forty years, little more than a curiosity.


 * 2294 - AUDIO: The Stones of Venice
 * DOCTOR: Er, no, it's the twenty third century.
 * VANSELL (Neverland): Venice, Earth, 2294.

24th century

 * c. 23XX - AUDIO: Mission to Magnus
 * SIL: After your meddling caused the failure of my Varos project, I was ordered to drum up new business here.


 * 2310 - TV: The Twin Dilemma
 * Year based on AUDIO: Daleks Among Us.


 * 23XX - TV: The Happiness Patrol
 * Year based on AUDIO: Daleks Among Us.


 * 23XX - TV: The Androids of Tara
 * 2367 - TV: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
 * Indian Space Agency 2367 A.D.


 * 3 July 2379 - TV: Mindwarp
 * VALEYARD: If we may see from the Doctor's arrival on the planet Thoros Beta. Twenty fourth century, last quarter, fourth year, seventh month, third day.

25th century

 * 24XX - AUDIO: Leviathan
 * CHANDRIS: Are you bonkers? Think what you're proposing. Those things over there have never lived outside the middle ages. Can you imagine the impact on them when they land in the twenty fifth century?


 * 2430 - COMIC: Doctor Who and the Dogs of Doom
 * BABE: We've only been settled here for fifty years -- since 2380, old Earth time.


 * 3 March 2472 - TV: Colony in Space
 * Jane tears off the calendar page for Mon 2 March 2472.


 * 24XX - TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen
 * PARRY: Cybermen? A live Cyberman? My dear Viner, they've been dead for the last five hundred years.


 * c. 2493 - TV: The Rescue
 * VICKI: 2493, of course. My mother had just died and Daddy wanted to get away so he took a job on the planet Astra.

26th century

 * 2503 - AUDIO: Sword of Orion
 * IKE: Course, this was against the Galactic Charter and that's how the war started. About ... eight years ago now. Nobody's winning. It's a nasty business.
 * VANSELL (Neverland): And then traced to Deep Space Haulage craft Vanguard, 2503.


 * 2526 - TV: Earthshock
 * ADRIC: The year is 2526 in the time scale you call Anno Domini.


 * 2540 - TV: Frontier in Space
 * HARDY: Preparing to enter hyperspace at twenty two oh nine seventy two, two thousand, five hundred and forty EST.
 * DOCTOR: Well, it's just a spaceship, Jo. You know, I reckon we must be somewhere in the twenty sixth century. Well, interstellar travel's pretty routine by now.


 * 2540 - TV: Planet of the Daleks
 * Picks up right after Frontier in Space.


 * 2589 - AUDIO: Phobos
 * DOCTOR: Apparently the year's 2589.

27th century

 * 2616 - AUDIO: Judgement Day
 * BENNY: What year?
 * AI INTERFACE: 2616

28th century

 * 2708 - COMIC: By Hook or By Crook
 * CAPTION: The city-state of Tor-Ka-Nom, 2780AD...


 * 2724 - AUDIO: Shadow of Death
 * JAMIE: Two seven two four.
 * DOCTOR: That's the year Jamie.


 * 27XX - TV: The Sensorites
 * MAITLAND: Yes, you see, the whole lower half of England is called Central City now. There hasn't been a London for four hundred years. We come from the twenty eighth century.

29th century

 * 29XX - TV: The Mutants
 * DOCTOR: According to the Tardis's instrument readings, we are now in the thirtieth century empire.


 * 2986 - TV: Terror of the Vervoids
 * DOCTOR: A scheduled flight in the Earth year two thousand nine hundred and eighty six.

32nd century

 * c. 3127 (E-Space) - TV: State of Decay

33rd century

 * 3295 or 3297 - TV: The Beast Below
 * COMPUTER: Name, Amelia Jessica Pond. Age, thirteen hundred and six. (However, the screens read 1308.)

35th century

 * 3429 - TV: Snakedance
 * SOURCE?


 * 3480 - TV: Terminus
 * SOURCE?


 * 34XX - AUDIO: Paradise 5
 * DOCTOR: If you must know, we are currently en route to the planet Targos Delta, fourth planet in the Targos system. Financial and industrial hub of the Earth Alliance in the thirty fifth century.

37th century

 * >37XX - TV: Revelation of the Daleks
 * After AUDIO: Davros.

38th century

 * 37XX - TV: Sleep No More
 * DOCTOR: Thirty eighth century. (Tastes his finger again.) Tuesday.

39th century

 * Mid 38XX - TV: Kinda
 * Era based on PROSE: Legacy.


 * 3885 - TV: The Curse of Peladon
 * SOURCE?

40th century

 * 3935 - TV: The Monster of Peladon
 * SOURCE?
 * DOCTOR: Look, it's fifty years now since Peladon joined the Galactic Federation, and what have the miners got to show for it? Harder work for the same rewards.


 * 39XX - TV: The Infinite Quest
 * DOCTOR: I told you it was the fortieth century. The last great oil corporations are sucking the solar system dry to feed demand. Petrol prices have gone through the roof, of course, and the colonies that can't afford to pay are dying.


 * 3999 or 4000 - TV: Mission to the Unknown
 * 4000 - TV: The Daleks' Master Plan
 * CHEN [OC]]: Yes. It is my earnest hope that the solar system may continue along this path of peace, this path that was laid by the signing of the non-aggression pact of 3975. Now, in this year of 4000, we can feel justly proud of that pact.

41st century

 * 4037 - TV: A Good Man Goes to War
 * The Battle of Zaruthstra, 4037 A.D.

42nd century

 * 4126 - TV: Planet of the Ood
 * DOCTOR: Ah, got it. The Ood Sphere, I've been to this solar system before. Years ago. Ages. Close to the planet Sense Sphere. Let's widen out. The year 4126. That is the Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire.


 * 41XX - TV: 42
 * SOURCE?


 * 41XX - AUDIO: The Genocide Machine
 * NOTE: First Bev Tarrant story.


 * 41XX - AUDIO: Dust Breeding
 * NOTE: Second Bev Tarrant story.

43rd century

 * 43K2.1 (4221) - WC: Tardisode 8 / TV: The Impossible Planet / WC: Tardisode 9 / TV: The Satan Pit
 * JEFFERSON: Captain. Report Officer Scootori Manista PKD, deceased. Forty three K two point one.
 * NOTE: Despite the Ood being freed a century prior, AUDIO: The Torchwood Archive retroactively establishes the dating system as [century]K[decade].[year]


 * c. 4226 - TV: The End of Time
 * DOCTOR: Magnificent. Oh, come on, that is splendid. You've achieved all this in how long?
 * OOD SIGMA: One hundred years.

44th century

 * 24 December early 43XX - TV: A Christmas Carol
 * Christmas eves with Eleventh Doctor, young Kazran, and Abigail.


 * 24 - 25 December 4398 - TV: A Christmas Carol
 * DOCTOR: Daddy's been dead for twenty years, but you still can't get comfortable where he can see you. There's a Christmas tree in the painting, but none in this house, on Christmas Eve
 * Portrait of Elliot Sardick: ELLIOT SARDICK 4302 4378

49th century

 * 48XX - AUDIO: Shockwave
 * 48XX - AUDIO: Death's Deal
 * DOCTOR: I know it's the 49th century and everyone's off exploring the great unknown, but you don't look like the adventurous type...

50th century

 * 4949 - TV: Destiny of the Daleks
 * Year based on AUDIO: Neverland.


 * c. 5000 - TV: The Ice Warriors
 * CLENT: And then the glaciers will move again. Five thousand years of history crushed beneath a moving mountain of ice.
 * DOCTOR (The Talons of Weng-Chiang): It was made in Peking for the Commissioner of the Icelandic Alliance. It was in the Ice Age, about the year five thousand.
 * NOTE: A Radio Times article published at the time of initial broadcast placed it in the year 3000. This was the date used in DWM 76, The Doctor Who Programme Guide, The Universal Databank, The Doctor Who File and A History of the Universe, and it was referred to in the novels Legacy and The Dark Path. However, The Making of Doctor Who says that it was set three thousand years after the previous story (so circa 4935).


 * 5000 - TV: The Invisible Enemy
 * DOCTOR: Solar system, between Jupiter and Saturn. About five thousand AD. Five thousand AD?

51st century

 * c. 5039 - TV: Resurrection of the Daleks
 * QUOTE?


 * 50XX - TV: Adam
 * Jack's flashback to when he lost his brother Gray as a kid.


 * 5067 - COMIC: Station Zero (comic story)
 * "Time Agency ***** Galaxy. Location Redacted. 5067"
 * NOTE: Flashback to Jack Harnkness and John Hart at the Time Agency.


 * 50XX - WC: Tardisode 4 / TV: The Girl in the Fireplace
 * DOCTOR: Fifty first century. Diagmar Cluster, you're a long way from home, Mickey. Two and a half galaxies.


 * 50XX - TV: Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead
 * DOCTOR: Fifty first century. By now you've got holovids, direct to brain downloads, fiction mist, but you need the smell. The smell of books, Donna. Deep breath.


 * 50XX - TV: The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone
 * DOCTOR: He's their Bishop, they're his Clerics. It's the fifty first Century. The Church has moved on.

52nd century

 * 5123 - TV: Let's Kill Hitler
 * The Luna University, 5123


 * 51XX - TV: Closing Time
 * KOVARIAN: So, they made you a Doctor today, did they? Doctor River Song. How clever you are.


 * 5145 - TV: The Pandorica Opens
 * Stormcage Containment Facility, The Royal Collection, and The Maldovarium 5145


 * 51XX - WC: Prequel (A Good Man Goes to War)
 * 51XX - TV: A Good Man Goes to War
 * 51XX - WC: The Battle of Demons Run: Two Days Later
 * 51XX - TV: The Wedding of River Song

54th century

 * 25 December 5343 - TV: The Husbands of River Song
 * Mendorax Dellora (human colony) Christmas Day 5343


 * 5345 - TV: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
 * DROXIL: Okay, we're putting our guns on the ground. Okay? Happy now? We're stepping away from our guns. Now can we interrogate you? We're from Androzani Major. The year is 5345, and we mean you no harm. Where are you from?

60th century

 * 5 June 5968 - PROSE: The Hungry Bomb
 * TEXT: At midday on 5th June 5968, a spaceship popped out of hyperspace nearby and curved down through the clouds.

61st century

 * 24 July 6012 - TV: The Doctor's Daughter
 * CALENDAR: 60120724
 * DONNA: It's the date. Assuming the first two numbers are some big old space date, then you've got year, month, day. It's the other way round, like it is in America.


 * After 6087 - TV: Revenge of the Cybermen
 * NOTE: Before The Ark in Space. Year based on AUDIO: Wirrn Isle.

121st century

 * 12005 - TV: The End of the World
 * DOCTOR: Ten thousand years in the future. Step outside, it's the year 12005, the new Roman Empire.

161st century

 * 16,087 - TV: The Ark in Space
 * HARRY: Well, after ten thousand years, Sarah, he can't be in that much of a hurry.
 * NOTE: Earth was devastated by solar flares in 6087 according to AUDIO: Wirrn Isle.


 * 16,087 - TV: The Sontaran Experiment
 * Picks up from The Ark in Space.

162nd century

 * 16,127 - AUDIO: Wirrn Isle
 * PUBLISHER SUMMARY: The year is 16127. Four decades have passed since the colonists of Nerva Beacon returned to repopulate the once-devastated Earth — and the chosen few are finding the business of survival tough.

171st century

 * 17,0XX - TV: The Time of Angels
 * 12,000 years later [from the 51st century]

372nd century

 * 37,166 - TV: Planet of Evil
 * SIGN: Egard Lumb died here 7y2 in the year 37,166.

Far future

 * 200,000 - TV: The Long Game
 * DOCTOR: So, it's two hundred thousand, and it's a spaceship. No, wait a minute, space station, and er, go and try that gate over there. Off you go


 * 200,100 - TV: Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways
 * DOCTOR: A hundred years exactly. It's the year two zero zero one zero zero.


 * c. 10,000,000 or 57th Segment of Time - TV: The Ark
 * DOCTOR: Segment? To use your phrase, sir, what segment are we in now?
 * COMMANDER: The fifty seventh.
 * DOCTOR: Good gracious! We must have jumped at least ten million years.


 * c. 10,000,000 - TV: Frontios
 * TURLOUGH: Fleeing from the imminence of a catastrophic collision with the sun, a group of refugees from the doomed planet Earth.
 * DOCTOR: We can't interfere. Colony's too new, one generation at most.
 * NOTE: Earth's destruction mentioned here lines up with The Ark. The novelisation establishes Frontios is located at the frontier in time, which is dated circa 10,000,000 by The Book of the War.


 * c. 10,000,700 - TV: The Ark
 * DOCTOR: Well I'm not sure, dear boy. However, the statue's finished. That means seven hundred years must have passed since we last stood here.


 * c. 23,000,000 - TV: The Pilot
 * DOCTOR: Other end of the universe. Twenty three million years in the future. Oh, yes, it's a time machine too.


 * c. 2,000,000,000 - TV: The Mysterious Planet
 * DOCTOR: Oh, a long time after your period. Er, two billion years or more.


 * c. 2,000,000,000 - TV: Dragonfire
 * Sabalom Glitz era.


 * Before 5,000,000,000 - TV: New Earth
 * Cassandra's Party


 * Before 5,000,000,000 - TV: Hide
 * CLARA: No, it's not that. Have we just watched the entire life cycle of Earth, birth to death?


 * 5,000,000,000 or 5.5/Apple/26 - TV: The End of the World
 * DOCTOR: This is the year five point five slash apple slash twenty six. Five billion years in your future, and this is the day. This is the day the Sun expands. Welcome to the end of the world.
 * DOCTOR (New Earth): So, the year five billion, the sun expands, the Earth gets roasted.


 * After 5,000,000,012 - TV: Twice Upon a Time
 * DOCTOR: Professor Helen Clay, University Of New Earth, year five billion and twelve.


 * 5,000,000,023 - WC: Tardisode 1 / TV: New Earth
 * DOCTOR: It's the year five billion and twenty three. We're in the galaxy M87, and this? This is New Earth.


 * 5,000,000,053 - TV: Gridlock
 * DOCTOR: Nah. Where's the fun for me? I don't want to go home. Instead, this is much better. Year five billion and fifty-three, planet New Earth. Second hope of mankind.


 * c. 60,000,000,000 (projection) - AUDIO: Zagreus
 * WINKLE: How, how long have I been asleep?
 * DUCK: Approximately sixty billion years.


 * 334,961,147,104 - PROSE: Of the City of the Saved...
 * NOTE: Mesh Cos' flashbacks. Year is given as Mesh's death date in Who's Who in the City of the Saved.


 * 100,000,000,000,000 - TV: Utopia
 * DOCTOR: What? The year one hundred trillion? That's impossible.


 * End of the Universe - TV: Hell Bent
 * GENERAL: Gallifrey is currently positioned at the extreme end of the time continuum, for its own protection. We're at the end of the universe, give or take a star system.


 * End of the Universe - TV: Listen
 * DOCTOR: The end of the road. This is it, the end of everything. The last planet.


 * End of the Universe - TV: Hell Bent
 * DOCTOR: The universe is over! It doesn't have a say any more! We're standing on the last ember, the last fragment of everything that ever was. As of this moment, I'm answerable to no-one!