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


 * PROSE: Happy Endings
 * Romana becomes President.


 * PROSE: Lungbarrow
 * TV: Genesis of the Daleks


 * AUDIO: Thin Ice
 * Ace isn't allowed into the Academy.


 * AUDIO: The Sirens of Time
 * 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.


 * TV: Doctor Who
 * The Eye of Harmony needs a human retina to open.


 * 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
 * Later Graceless stories establish that Amy attends the Academy under Valyes.


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


 * 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

War, Take One

 * PROSE: Toy Story
 * The War is coming, but hasn't started yet. Lolita is anthropomorphic. Note that someone other than Romana 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: Alien Bodies
 * Before the audios for Justine and the Faction.


 * PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5
 * Follows Alien Bodies for the Shift.


 * PROSE: The Book of the War
 * Published in the 50th year of the War/AF 294. Follows The Taking of Planet 5 for the Shift.


 * 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

War, Take Two

 * 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.


 * AUDIO: Intervention Earth
 * A Braxiatel saves Romana and Omega returns. A catastrophic War begins.


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


 * AUDIO: Luna Romana (audio story)
 * Romana is preparing for what is presumably the War.


 * PROSE: The Ancestor Cell
 * Gallifrey is destroyed.


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


 * 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.

War, Take Three

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

War, Take Four

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


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


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


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


 * TV: The Night of the Doctor
 * The Sisterhood of Karn is involved in the Time War.


 * 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.

Postwar

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


 * TV: Death in Heaven
 * According to the Master, Gallifrey has returned to its traditional spacial coordinates.


 * TV: Heaven Sent
 * Gallifrey is situated beyond the frontier in time.