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'''2003''' was a [[year]].

==Events==
===Dated===
On [[19 January]], [[Caroline Hall]] was taken by the [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift|Cardiff Rift]]. She was reported missing. ([[TV]]: ''[[Adrift (TV story)|Adrift]]'')

On [[17 June]], [[UNIT United Kingdom|UNIT]] released their documents on the [[Llanfairfach Incident]], which had occurred exactly 30 years earlier. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Global Conspiracy? (home video)|Global Conspiracy?]]'')

On [[15 August]], the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]] and [[Bernice Summerfield]] arrived at the [[Pinehill Crest Hotel]] in time for a demonstration of spiritual channelling, a demonstration of a [[temporal accelerator]], a cross stitch convention and an attempt by the [[Scourge]] to manifest in [[N-Space|the Doctor's reality]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow of the Scourge (audio story)|The Shadow of the Scourge]]'')

[[File:Scanlon in Llanfairfach.jpg|thumb|right|[[Terry Scanlon]] in [[Llanfairfach]]. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Global Conspiracy? (home video)|Global Conspiracy?]]'')]]
In early [[winter]]<ref>In the story, the documents on the Llanfairfach Incident have recently been released by UNIT and an [[advertisement]] in the ''[[Newport Echo]]'' shows a winter sale. </ref>, [[Gordon Williams]] found toxic waste in the drain of his [[Llanfairfach]] house, touched it, and died shortly afterwards. After [[Sarah Jane Smith]] wrote a front page article in the ''[[Newport Echo]]'' on Williams' death, reporter [[Terry Scanlon]] began an investigation of the [[1973]] [[Global Chemicals]]' operation in Llanfairfach. After numerous interviews with residents of the town and former GC employees, Scanlon managed to track down [[Jocelyn Stevens]], the former Director of GC. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Global Conspiracy? (home video)|Global Conspiracy?]]'')

On [[1 December]], the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Charlotte Pollard]], and [[Audacity Montague|Lady Audacity Montague]] took up residence at [[107 Baker Street]] with the intent of spending the festive season there. The Doctor brought out the house's [[Advent calendar]], inviting Audacity to open the first door. Per the Doctor, the trio could also have arrived on 1 December [[2004]]; the early [[2000s]] were too indistinct for him to know for sure. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Twenty-Four Doors in December (audio story)}})

===Undated===
[[File:Jess Collins' museum tour.jpg|thumb|left|[[Jess Collins]] gives a tour at the [[National Gallery]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'')]]
Likely the most significant event was the deaths of millions of people on the planet [[Earth]] caused by [[Agent Yellow]] [[virus]] and the subsequent sterilisation of the Earth's surface to rid the planet of the virus by the [[Seventh Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eternity Weeps (novel)|Eternity Weeps]]'')

While giving a tour at the [[National Gallery]], [[Jess Collins]] noticed that the [[Twelfth Doctor]] had changed history by getting himself and the TARDIS to be painted in the background of ''[[The Hay Wain]]''. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doorway to Hell (comic story)|Doorway to Hell]]'')

[[Ruby Duvall]] became a reporter for the ''[[Sunday Seeker]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'')

[[Bruce Springsteen]] was the [[President of the United States]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eternity Weeps (novel)|Eternity Weeps]]'')

[[Zolfian]] killed [[Drenz]] and became ruler of the [[Humanoid Dalek]]s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Genesis of Evil (comic story)|Genesis of Evil]]'', ''[[The Dalek Tapes (comic story)|The Dalek Tapes]]'')

The [[Ninth Doctor]] and a group of [[fanatic]]s unsuccessfully attempted to save [[Cinema (Have You Seen This Man?)|an old cinema]] in [[Salford]] from being [[Demolition|pulled down]]. The Doctor also [[apologised]] to [[Xandra Lenea-Ashford]] and gave her a [[flowerpot]] and small [[spade]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Have You Seen This Man? (short story)|Have You Seen This Man?]]'')

The new [[United States of America|US]] state of [[Malebolgia]] was granted provisional statehood in 2003, with TV evangelist [[Brigham Elisha Dashwood III]] announcing his candidacy for first state governor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Minuet in Hell (audio story)|Minuet in Hell]]'')

===Other realities===
{{Section stub|Missing info from ''[[Reckless Engineering (novel)|Reckless Engineering]]'', ''[[The Last Resort (novel)|The Last Resort]]'' & ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]''.}}
[[File:Jubilee Stained Glass.jpg|thumb|right|A stained glass window in the [[Tower of London]] depicting the [[Sixth Doctor]]'s visit a hundred years earlier. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Jubilee (audio story)|Jubilee]]'')]]
In [[Parallel universe (Deadline)|an alternate universe]], [[Martin Bannister]] lamented that ''Doctor Who'' never became a success. He was interviewed for his work on ''[[Juliet Bravo]]'', but nobody was interested in ''Doctor Who''. Martin had demented visions of characters and settings from ''Doctor Who'' which culminated in his suicide. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Deadline (audio story)|Deadline]]'')

In another timeline, an alternate [[Sabbath]] had murdered several key figures on [[Earth]], preventing the creation of the [[computer]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Domino Effect (novel)|The Domino Effect]]'')

====Alternate timelines====
The [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Evelyn Smythe]] arrived at the [[Tower of London]] in an [[alternate timeline]] in which the [[British Empire]] had conquered Earth with the aid of [[Dalek]] technology acquired from their invasion attempt [[1903|one hundred years earlier]]. This timeline was negated by the last surviving Dalek. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Jubilee (audio story)|Jubilee]]'')

==Births and deaths==
===Dated===
Around [[11 January]] was the supposed birthdate of the [[Tenza]] boy [[George Thompson|George]] to his [[human]] parents [[Alex Thompson|Alex]] and [[Claire Thompson]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Night Terrors (TV story)|Night Terrors]]'') However, another account claimed that George was born on [[11 February]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Night Terrors (short story)|Night Terrors]]'')

On [[10 April]], [[Rebecca Whitaker]]'s car crashed in a field after avoiding an oncoming lorry, killing her. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Touched by an Angel (novel)|Touched by an Angel]]'')

===Undated===
[[Dave Cooke]] died and was replaced with a shapeshifter. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Locker 15 (audio story)|Locker 15]]'')

[[Esther Drummond's mother]] died. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Categories of Life (TV story)|The Categories of Life]]'')

[[John Hartman]] suffered a [[heart attack]] at his [[desk]] and died. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rockery (audio story)|The Rockery]]'')

According to one account, [[Liz Shaw]] died of the [[Agent Yellow]] virus on [[the Moon]]. By the time of her viral-related death, she had become Chief of Operations at [[Tranquility Base]] on [[the Moon]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eternity Weeps (novel)|Eternity Weeps]]'')

==Footnotes==
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