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Revision as of 04:30, 11 June 2019

Index → Timey-wimey detector → Timeline - Torchwood
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This page lists appearances of the Torchwood Institute and Torchwood Three 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 that for each novel, comic, audio or television series, their published, broadcast or numbered order is the order they occur in.

Limiting factors

Any story with Gwen, Ianto, Owen and Tosh must be after TV: Everything Changes and before TV: End of Days or after TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang and before TV: Exit Wounds. Any story where Owen is dead, but still mobile must be set after TV: Dead Man Walking and before TV: Exit Wounds. Any story where Gwen is married to Rhys must be after TV: Something Borrowed. Any story with Gwen and Ianto must be after TV: Exit Wounds and before TV: Children of Earth: Day One.

Overview

The adventures of Torchwood Three and the related Torchwood team in America that was formed after the destruction of the Hub can be categorised as these original to Torchwood television lineups:

Timeline

Beginnings

John Hart imprisons Jack at Flat Holm, 1878.
Queen Victoria founds the Torchwood Institute in 1879.
25 December 1897. Archie has been working with Torchwood for six months.
Queen Victoria records a 20th anniversary speech of the Torchwood Institute.
Set in 1899 before the Fragments flashback.

After recruiting Jack Harkness

Set in the late 19th century.
Features Alice Guppy and Emily Holroyd after Jack joined their team.
In 1900, Nicholas I causes the creation of the Committee. He gifts Object One to Victoria who enters it into the Torchwood Archive.
In 1900, Queen Victoria gives Jack the Red Key to dispose of it. Jack takes it to Cardiff where he plans to wait for the Doctor.

More Torchwood branches

10 March 1908. Archie uses the knowledge sponge to record information on various objects recovered by Torchwood. He recalls the events of The Victorian Age. Archie retires from Torchwood One and forms Torchwood Two.
In 1914, Jack throws the red key into the Rift and causes the creation of the Weevils.
Torchwood India sends Object One to Jack in 1924
Set in 1941.
Set in 1945.
Norton Folgate came to the 2016 from 1953.
In 1953, Norton Folgate is interrogated by a group of mobsters. He plants Object One on the Mandrake Association, on a mission for the Committee.
Set in 1961. Archie, now at 100, is still archiving at Torchwood Two.
Set in the 1970s.
Set in 1987.

Under Yvonne Hartman's leadership

Suzie Costello calls Yvonne Hartman to inform her about the Ovid sex dolls. Suzie and Jack plan to get rid of Object One by passing it on to Torchwood One.
Toshiko Sato covers for Owen Harper during his second week of work and performs an alien autopsy. Set in
Set between Aliens of London and Boom Town so between March and September 2006.
Suzie's alive, set during 29th November.
Torchwood do not get involved, so this is set sometime before Season One.

The Battle of Canary Wharf

Ianto looks for Lisa in the wreckage of Torchwood One.

Under Jack Harkness's early leadership

After the fall of Torchwood One.
Gwen is recruited.
Gwen's first day on the job.
Gwen is still inexperienced with weapons. Set 66 years after 1941.
Rhys mentions a co-worker called Lucy who has been on a diet recently, foreshadowing Slow Decay.
Set in October 2007.
Set in 2007. Ivan Putin complains about Ovid and their dealing with the committee.
Ianto keeps something secret in the hub.
Ianto first enters the ferret the night after Lisa dies. A few days later Jack takes Ianto out to hunt Weevils. Later when Ianto returns to the Ferret, he is given advice by Mandy. Jack is contacted by Estelle Cole shortly after and takes Gwen with him instead of Ianto.
Jack and Ianto fight Scorchies at the Millennium Centre. Ianto opens up to Jack about his life before the battle of Canary Wharf and how the loss of Lisa has affected him. This leads to him being invited on a mission to the brecon beacons for a few days, leading into Countrycide.
Horrified by what he witnessed in Countrycide, Ianto attempts suicide before being talked down by Mandy. He returns to work the following day.
Ianto visits the Ferret on the night that Jack killed Mary. Jack enters the Ferret on the same night investigating rift activity.
Tosh has recently discovered what her friends really think of her and recently had a bad relationship, setting this shortly after Greeks Bearing Gifts.
Set three months after Everything Changes.
The events of Cyberwoman are recent and Ianto is in a relationship with Jack.
Set 14 years after 1992, can be attributed to rounding.
Captain Jack Harkness places this story in the week ending December 24th.
Jack is kidnapped while he and Gwen are on patrol.
Owen is visibly upset by the events of Out of Time in this story. He calls off his affair with Gwen.
Continues where Captain Jack Harkness left off. Jack disappears from Torchwood.

Under Gwen Cooper's temporary leadership

Set shortly after End Of Days with the team arguing over who will take charge in Jack's absence.

Torchwood Three grows closer

Gwen has started taking charge more in Jack's absence, in comparison to Captain Jack Harkness, where Owen was said to be second-in-command. Gwen is now engaged to Rhys.
Occurs on Friday 20th of June, 114 years after 1894.
Tosh recalls To the Last Man but Rhys does not yet know about Torchwood.
Set in 2008. To the Last Man is referenced and Rhys does not appear to be aware of Torchwood.
Set between Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang and Reset.
Jack has left Torchwood before.
One week after The Conspiracy, Gwen Cooper visits a conspiracy theorist possessed br the Committee.
Jack is currently missing.
Jack decides to return to Torchwood Three.
Neil Redmond was investigated by the KVI, setting this shortly after Uncanny Valley. Toshiko is working on the Time lock. Anna Volokova says she was born in 1930, with Tosh then exclaiming that she must be 78 years old.
A week after her visit to Russia, Tosh has reversed the effects of the Bad Penny. She tosses it into another dimension.
Eve Trent confesses to her involvement with the Committee.
Set after Zone 10 but months before Exit Wounds.
Set between Meat and Adam.
Jack gives Gwen two plane tickets to Paris, setting this shortly before Adam
Gwen has just returned from a trip to Paris with Rhys.
Archie takes a call from Owen Harper in the 21st Century.

After Owen's death

Continues where Reset left off. Owen is resurrected, but with no lifesigns.
Set three days after Reset.
Set in October. After Owen's undeath but before Gwen's wedding.
Set Halloween, 2008.
Gwen and Rhys get married.
Set during the first day after Gwen’s return from honeymoon.
Set in September. Gwen and Rhys have just returned from their honeymoon. Toshiko is working on the Time lock. Gwen has been with Torchwood for roughly a year.
Gwen mentions the Nostrovite, placing this story after Something Borrowed.
Set in 2009, before Exit Wounds.
Set in March, 2009.
At least 21 months after the battle of Canary Wharf, according to Ianto's flashback.
Continues where Fragments left off. Owen and Tosh die. In 1901, Jack asks to be frozen for 107 years so that he'd wake up in what he'd consider 'the present.'

After Gray's attack

Set after the tragic events of Exit Wounds.
Martha meets Jack for the first time since Owen and Tosh's funeral. Set September 10th 2008.
  • COMIC: Captain Jack and the Selkie
Gwen attempts to send a message to Owen and Tosh in the afterlife. She recalls the Dalek Invasion and Torchwood Three's trip to CERN.
The door to the Hub is still damaged from the Dalek attack. Torchwood Three have a boat called the Sea Queen. It is destroyed by the end of the story.
Preview to Risk Assessment.
Torchwood Three have replaced the Sea Queen with the Sea Queen II.
Nina Rogers recalls the Dalek Invasion.
Ianto has done Opera, setting this after Into the Silence.
In 2009, Andy goes on a date and attempts to brag about Torchwood.
Norton Folgate is aware that Ianto will die soon.
Rhys makes a delivery for the Committee.

The 456 return

Jack and Gwen attend Ianto's funeral.
Sequel to Children of Earth and prequel to Miracle Day.
In March 2010, six months after the 456 incident, Jack leaves Earth.

Torchwood disbanded

Begins around March 2010 with Gwen seven months pregnant, and continues through to about May the same year, with the birth of Anwen Williams.
Prequel to The New World. Set nine months after Children of Earth.

Miracle Day epidemic

Jack returns to Earth.
Set on the first day of The Miracle.
Jack and Gwen are taken to America. According to the date on Rex's phone, it is 22 March 2011.
Jack and Gwen return to the UK, along with Esther after End of the Road. The New World through End of the Road flow into one another.
Takes place a two months after End of the Road.
Continues where The Gathering left off. Esther's funeral takes place a few weeks after the main story. According to a date on Rex's phone, it is September 2011.
Post-Miracle, Holly kept a bag of Jack's blood.

After Miracle Day

Gwen and Rhys are still in America following Miracle Day. Gwen gives Sarah Drummond a small fortune.
Gwen and Rhys are still in America.
Jack visits Cotter Paluni's World and has a vision of Gwen dying.
Set shortly after Red Skies with Jack returning to Cardiff to check on Gwen following his vision. Gwen and Rhys have returned to Swansea. The events of Fallout were weeks ago.
The Miracle ended a few months ago. Andy recalls the events of Fallout while Gwen and Rhys still live in Swansea. Jack joins the crew of the Ice Maiden.

Torchwood returns

It has been four years since The Miracle.
Set in 2016. Almost 10 years have passed since Gwen Cooper joined Torchwood and she has recently started trying to set up operations in Cardiff again.
10 years have passed since Day One, but Torchwood has been forgotten in the space of four years.
Set on a Sunday in winter. Gwen and Rhys have a place to store aliens, suggesting that they now have use of the Hub.
Rhys mentions Roger Pugh from More Than This.
Gwen gets a phone call from Rhys, and she mentions Anwen.
Gwen is acting-head of Torchwood Three, while Jack is serving with the crew of the Ice Maiden. Ending leads directly into Station Zero.
Ending leads directly into The Culling.
Jack and Gwen part ways once again after defeating the Vervoids.
Having been "dumped" by the crew of the Ice Maiden, Jack has returned to duty at Torchwood Cardiff.
Set between Aliens & Sex & Chips & Gravy and Love Rat.

Under the leadership of a new Yvonne

Set a few weeks after Herald of The Dawn and Brent Hayden is still around, setting this before The Man Who Destroyed Torchwood.
In 2017, Mr Colchester visits the Committee. He briefly speaks with Orr.
The Empty Hand took place the previous year.

Far Future

Jeremiah Bash Henderson visits the Torchwood Archive.

Unplaced

Set between Meat and Fragments as Rhys knows about Torchwood but Tosh and Owen are still alive.
Set in Cardiff, 2007.

The Torchwood Archive

Jack is watched by The Committee while he plays with his dog, Untitled.

This story will be easier to place after Serenity is released.

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