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 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 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

 * COMIC: Star Death
 * COMIC: 4-D War
 * COMIC: Black Sun Rising
 * COMIC: The Stolen TARDIS
 * PROSE: The Scrolls of Rassilon
 * PROSE: Remembrance of the Daleks (flashback)
 * 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.


 * 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.


 * PROSE: Newtons Sleep (babel perspective)
 * Pre-War, at least roughly around the Imperator's reign.


 * PROSE: Warmonger

The Doctor's Era

 * PROSE: The Infinity Doctors
 * The Doctor is on Gallifrey.


 * 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
 * AUDIO: The Black Hole
 * TV: The War Games
 * PROSE: World Game
 * PROSE: Players
 * The Doctor becomes a CIA agent.


 * PROSE: The Time Eater
 * Jamie gets his first look at the Stattenheim remote control, so this is between World Game and The Two Doctors.

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


 * TV: Colony in Space
 * The Doctor is on a mission for the Time Lords.


 * PROSE: Future Imperfect
 * TV: 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.


 * TV: The Brain of Morbius
 * AUDIO: The King of Sontar
 * The Doctor is on a mission for the Time Lords.


 * TV: The Deadly Assassin
 * 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: The Crystal of Cantus (Irving segment)
 * Hallan and Darkel are around.


 * 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: 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


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

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: Newtons Sleep (Faction perspective)
 * The Faction is currently being devastated by the Second Wave.


 * PROSE: Storyteller
 * The majority of the stories in this anthology don't indicate the time more specifically than being set during the War. Characters from all of the stories appear in A Hundred Words from a Civil War, but that doesn't help because of the nature of the City.


 * PROSE: A Romance in Twelve Parts: Gramps
 * PROSE: A Romance in Twelve Parts: Mightier Than the Sword
 * PROSE: A Romance in Twelve Parts: Now or Thereabouts
 * PROSE: A Romance in Twelve Parts: Nothing Lasts Forever
 * PROSE: A Romance in Twelve Parts: Holding Pattern
 * PROSE: A Romance in Twelve Parts: The Story of the Peace
 * PROSE: A Romance in Twelve Parts: Print the Legend
 * PROSE: A Romance in Twelve Parts: Tonton Macoute
 * PROSE: A Romance in Twelve Parts: Alchemy
 * PROSE: Tales of the City: Akroates
 * AF 0 — Resurrection Day. Following Warring States for Compassion. Philip Purser-Hallard's City of the Saved Chronology is very helpful.


 * PROSE: Tales of the City: Happily Ever After Is a High-Risk Strategy
 * Circa AF 60.


 * PROSE: Tales of the City: The Socratic Problem
 * Circa AF 71.


 * PROSE: Tales of the City: Lost Ships and Lost Lands
 * Circa AF 150.


 * PROSE: Tales of the City: Highbury
 * Circa AF 240.


 * PROSE: Tales of the City: About a Girl
 * Circa AF 250.


 * PROSE: Erasing Sherlock
 * Mad Norwegian Press convention was that each book was set before its predecessor.


 * 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: Tales of the City: Bruises
 * Circa AF 290.


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


 * 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.


 * PROSE: A Romance in Twelve Parts: A Hundred Words from a Civil War
 * AF 300.


 * PROSE: Tales of the City: Apocalypse Day
 * AF 300.


 * 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
 * PROSE: A Romance in Twelve Parts: Library Pictures
 * Iris mentions the destruction of the Eleven-Day Empire.

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.


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


 * AUDIO: Luna Romana
 * Romana is preparing for what is presumably the War.


 * PROSE: The Ancestor Cell
 * Gallifrey is destroyed.

Postwar

 * 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.


 * 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...

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. Romana 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
 * 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.


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


 * 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
 * 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.

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