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The [[Sixth Doctor]] claimed that '''1984''' was "never as good as [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|the book]]" of the same name by [[George Orwell]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'')

The [[1984 Olympics|1984 Olympic Games]], which were boycotted by the [[Soviet Union]], were held in [[Los Angeles]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'', ''[[The Gathering (audio story)|The Gathering]]'')

[[Martha Jones]] was born in this year ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'') on [[14 September]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Torchwood Archives]]'') Another account indicates she was born in [[1986]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Frozen Wastes (short story)|The Frozen Wastes]]'')

[[Indira Gandhi]] was serving as the [[Prime Minister]] of [[India]] during this year. As she told the [[Egypt]]ian [[Pharaoh]] [[Erimem]], [[Peri Brown]] considered her to be an effective female leader in contrast to her British counterpart and contemporary [[Margaret Thatcher]]. Given that Erimem was from the [[BC|14th century BC]], she had unsurprisingly never heard of either Gandhi or Thatcher. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eye of the Scorpion (audio story)|The Eye of the Scorpion]]'')

In [[1964]], [[Ken Temple]] believed that it would be possible to evacuate 1% of the human population to [[Venus]] by this year if all of Earth's fossil fuels and natural resources were used to create an interplanetary fleet. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Pelage Project (audio story)|The Pelage Project]]'')

== Dated events ==
[[Peri Brown]] and [[Katherine Chambers]] graduated from high school in [[Fell's Point]], [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]].

On [[8 May]], the [[Soviet Union]] withdrew from the [[1984 Olympics|1984 Olympic Games]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'')

[[File:Turlough doctor goodbye.jpg|left|thumb|Turlough says goodbye to the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]'')]]
On [[9 May]], [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]] returned to [[Trion (planet)|Trion]], [[Peri Brown]] joined the Fifth Doctor on his travels and [[Kamelion]] was destroyed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Fire (TV story)|Planet of Fire]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'')

Between [[9 May]] and [[24 September]], [[Peri Brown]]'s mother [[Janine Foster|Janine]] and [[Howard Foster]] divorced. In spite of this, Janine kept her ex-husband's surname for the rest of her life. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'')

On [[12 June]], [[Harold Withers|Harold]] and [[Alice Withers]], the owners of [[Stockbridge]]'s [[Green Dragon]], were [[married]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eternal Summer (audio story)|The Eternal Summer]]'')

During the [[summer]], the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Amy Pond]] encountered the [[Kin (Nothing O'Clock)|Kin]] in [[Leadworth]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nothing O'Clock (short story)|Nothing O'Clock]]'')

On [[24 September]], the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]] attended the funeral of [[Anthony Chambers]] in [[Fell's Point]], [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'')

On [[22 December]], [[Ruby Duvall|Ruby Sara Duvall]] was born. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'')

== Undated events ==
[[File:Little Hodcombe.jpg|thumb|right|A stake is built on the village green as part of Little Hodcombe's [[English Civil War]] reenactment. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Awakening (TV story)The Awakening]]'')]]
The [[Fifth Doctor]] defeated the [[Malus]] in [[Little Hodcombe]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Awakening (TV story)|The Awakening]]'')

[[H.C. Clements]] was bought by the [[Torchwood Institute]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'')

[[File:Tegan goodbye.jpg|thumb|left|Tegan says goodbye to the Doctor ([[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'')]]
With [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] caught inside a [[time corridor]], the [[Fifth Doctor]], [[Tegan Jovanka]] and [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]] arrived in London at some point, where they encountered canisters of [[Movellan virus]] and [[Dalek duplicate|duplicates of humans]] created by the [[Dalek]]s. They travelled across the corridor to meet the Daleks and their creator [[Davros]] in the future. After witnessing a huge amount of bloodshed in the early days of the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War|Dalek Civil War]], Tegan departed from the TARDIS in this year. [[Gustave Lytton|Commander Lytton]] escaped from the future alive with his two [[police]] guards. ([[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'')

[[Lucie Miller]]'s maternal aunt [[Patricia Ryder]], whom she called "Auntie Pat," was killed by [[Zygon]]s and replaced by her Zygon husband [[Haygoth|Trevor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Grand Theft Cosmos (audio story)|Grand Theft Cosmos]]'')

[[Albert Marsden]] [[retire]]d. He and his wife [[Peggy Marsden|Peggy]] subsequently bought a cottage in the [[England|north of England]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Protect and Survive (audio story)|Protect and Survive]]'')

[[Ethel Merman]] died. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'')

{{Macqueen|The Master}} arrived in [[Hexford]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[And You Will Obey Me (audio story)|And You Will Obey Me]]'')

A [[Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform]] killed three farmers in [[Wetwang]]. Its claws were found and stored at the [[Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Security Bot (video game)|Security Bot]]'')

There was a conflict in [[Ethiopia]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Conspiracy (audio story)|The Conspiracy]]'')

On [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]]'s orders, [[Whitaker (The Fires Down Below)|Major Whitaker]] and her [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] team were sent to [[Reykjavik]], [[Iceland]] to inspect caverns with Dr [[Iskander]] to find the cause of sudden seismic activity. They discovered that [[Dominator]] [[Haag]] and the [[Quark]]s were attempting to use the Earth's core as a power source for the Dominators' star fleet. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fires Down Below (comic story)|The Fires Down Below]]'')

[[Janet Rae Tanner]] was born. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Middle Men (TV story)|The Middle Men]]'')

== Alternative timeline ==
In an [[alternate timeline|alternative timeline]], [[Margaret Thatcher]], the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] of the [[United Kingdom]], was [[Assassination|assassinated]] by her fellow [[Conservative Party]] politician [[Heathcliffe Bower]]. However, the proper timeline was restored by the [[Fifth Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Assassin's Story (short story)|The Assassin's Story]]'')
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