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January 23/24: During the Second Boer War, the Battle of Spion Kop is fought in South Africa. The battle results in a Boer victory and the British suffer 243 fatalities, including the husband of Jane Redfern, who will be the Farringham School nurse in 1913.

Historical records and "Human Nature".

May 17: The Relief of Mafeking, a battle of the Second Boer War, takes place.

Historical records and "The Invasion of Time."

Many soldiers are taken during the Boer War by the War Lords to do battle in the War Games in 1969, and return by the Time Lords shortly thereafter.

"The War Games." Exact date is conjecture. The Boer War ran from 1899 to 1902.

The first British submarine is launched. Shortly after a group of sailors are kidnapped by the Eternals for their race in 1983.

Historical records and "Enlightenment."

An unnamed author begins to write the weekly adventures of Captain Jack Harkaway for the boys' magazine The Ensign. He will write the serial for the next 25 years.

"The Mind Robber." The Master of the Land of Fiction claimed to have been writing for the magazine for 25 years by the time of his disappearance in 1926.

While exploring the solar system, a Rutan scout decides that the Earth is an ideal point from which to launch a final assault against the Sontarans. After contacting its mothership, the Rutan's scout-ship develops a fault, and falls to Earth.

Just before "Horror of Fang Rock."

Horror of Fang Rock: 1,2,3,4: The 4th Doctor and Leela visit a lighthouse being terrorized by a Rutan as a prelude to an invasion. The travellers are unable to stop the Rutan from killing everyone in the lighthouse, but manage to destroy the Rutan mothership, putting a halt to the invasion.

Exact placement of this story is conjecture. It takes place sometime during the first decade of the 20th century.

During the Russo-Japanese conflict, soldiers are abducted by the War Lords to fight in the War Games in 1969. They are returned by the Time Lords.

"The War Games."

Some soldiers based near Lahore, Pakistan, under the command of Jack Harkness, get drunk and accidentally run over and kill a child. This child is a Chosen One of the beings known only as "fairies".

A week before the flashback shown in "Small Worlds".

Small Worlds: The Lahore-based soldiers under Jack Harkness' command are attacked and killed by "fairies", leaving Jack the only survivor.

During the Mexican Civil War, soldiers are kidnapped by the War Lords to fight in the War Games in 1969. They are returned home by the Time Lords.

"The War Games." Exact date is conjecture. This was the last year of the Mexican Civil War.

Emma-Louise Cowell's father is born.

"Out of Time" (TW). Mr. Cowell is 48 when he dies in 1959.

Marcus Scarman writes to his brother Laurence from Egypt telling him the news of his discovery of a pyramid which may contain a mastabah, or burial chamber.

Some time before "Pyramids of Mars."

Pyramids of Mars: 1,2,3,4: The 4th Doctor and Sarah encounter the Egyptian god, Sutekh, in reality an all-powerful alien. Sutekh attempts to destroy the power source on the planet Mars which has him trapped in a pyramid in Egypt, but the Doctor prevents him from escaping by forcing Sutekh down a time corridor until he reaches the end of his lifespan.

In an alternate timeline, one where the 4th Doctor and Sarah leave without stopping Sutekh's escape, the Osiran destroys every living thing on Earth, leaving in a barren wasteland. This timeline is prevented by the Doctor and Sarah's actions.

As described in "Pyramids of Mars."

The stone circle called the Nine Travellers is surveyed yet again.

"The Stones of Blood."

April: On her maiden transatlantic voyage, the S.S. Titanic strikes an iceberg on the evening of the 14th and sinks. Of the more than 2220 persons aboard, more than 1500 die. The 4th Doctor denies any involvement. However, the day before the Titanic sets sail, a photograph is taken of the 9th Doctor with the Daniels family of Southampton. The Daniels cancel their passage on the doomed ship and survive. Futhermore, it appears at least one incarnation of the Doctor is on board when the ship encounters the iceberg. The Titanic will serve as a model for a space cruiser encountered by the Doctor in 2008.

Historical records and "Robot." The 4th Doctor denies involvement in "The Invasion of Time," however, it is revealed throught the Daniels photo that the 9th Doctor is around at the time in "Rose." The 9th Doctor also complains about being on board in "The End of the World," although, as he has recently regenerated, he was almost certainly in an earlier incarnation at the time. (Mind you, there is that possible gap near the end of "Rose" where he leaves Rose to think about joining him.) The space cruiser Titanic appears in "Voyage of the Damned".

The Royal Flying Corps, precursor to the Royal Air Force, in established in Britain.

Historical records and "Ghost Light."

Evangelist George Bennard composes the hymn "The Old Rugged Cross". In the far future, the hymn will become a sort of anthem for the drivers trapped under New New York on New Earth.

Historical records and "Gridlock".

Nemesis passes over the Earth, heralding the eve of the First World War.

"Silver Nemesis."

The tune to the song "Danny Boy" is written.

The tune is mentioned in "The Long Game."

September: The 10th Doctor and Martha land the TARDIS in the vicinity of Farringham School, fleeing from the Family of Blood. The Doctor sets up an alias for himself as schoolteacher John Smith, with Martha as his maid. The Doctor, estimating that after three months the Family of Blood will no longer be able to find him, hides his memories and Time Lord physiology in a fob watch and Martha begins to watch over "Mr. John Smith".

Two months before "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood".

November 10-12: Human Nature/The Family of Blood: The 10th Doctor and Martha spend time in hiding from the Family of Blood at Farringham School. The Doctor has placed his previous memories and his Time Lord physiology inside a fob watch and is posing as a teacher named Mr. John Smith, while Martha, who has retained her memories, poses as his maid. Eventually, they are found by the Family of Blood, incorporeal beings who wish to attain long life by inhabiting the Doctor's body. Despite having fallen in love with Joan Redfern, the school's nurse, Smith gives up his human existence to become the Doctor once again and defeat the Family of Blood. During this adventure, the Doctor and Martha also meet young Tim Latimer, a boy with latent telepathic abilities, who has seen flashes of his future while in contact with the Doctor's fob watch; when they leave this time period, the time-travellers present Latimer with the now-inactive watch.

June 28: In Sarajevo, Gavrilo Princip assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. This sets into motion a series of fast-moving events and declarations of war that eventually escalate into the Great War, later called World War I.

Historical events. The coming Great War is referenced frequently in "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood".

Professor Edward Travers begins a search for the legendary Yeti which will last 20 years.

Professor Travers has been searching for 20 years by "The Abominable Snowmen" (1935).

The 1st Doctor and Susan are caught in an air raid during World War I.

"Planet of Giants." Exact date is conjecture. This was the time of the first zeppelin attacks on London during the war.

The Doctor is wounded during the Gallipoli Campaign in World War I.

"The Sea Devils." Exact date is conjecture. The Campaign ran from April 25, 1915 to January 8, 1916.

The United States of America enters the Great War, later known as World War I. One of the many Americans fighting in the War includes a man named Solomon, who would, more than a decade later, become the unofficial leader of the New York City shanty town called Hooverville.

Historical records and "Daleks in Manhattan".

Human Nature/The Family of Blood: While fighting on the Western Front during World War I, Tim Latimer, based on a vision he had in 1913, saves himself and fellow former schoolmate Hutchinson from an incoming bomb.

Seen in flash forwards in "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood". Exact placement during the War in conjectural.

During World War I, soldiers are taken by the War Lords to fight in their War Games in 1969. They are returned to this time by the Time Lords.

"The War Games."

Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, young cousins living in Cottingley, England, take a number of pictures of each other with "fairies", time-spanning beings existing alongside mankind without humans realizing it. Despite later statements by Wright and Griffiths that the images are fakes, this is untrue. One of the "fairies" is a transformed Jasmine Pierce, taken by the creatures in 2007.

Historical records and "Small Worlds" (TW).

Toshiko Sato's grandfather is born.

He is celebrating his 88th birthday at the time of "Captain Jack Harkness" (TW) (2008).

June: While doing research for an article on fairies for the Strand Magazine, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, writer of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, comes across pictures of Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths with with real "fairies". As a Spiritualist, Conan Doyle is convinced the pictures are genuine and becomes a great supporter of the images.

Historical records. Conan Doyle's involvement is mentioned in "Small Worlds" (TW).

December 5: Blink: Katherine Nightingale appears in Hull on this date, thrown back in time from 2007 by the Weeping Angels. The first person she meets is her eventual husband, Benjamin Wainwright.

Nancy is born.

Twenty years before "The Doctor Dances" (1941), assuming that the Doctor's guess of 20 as Nancy's age is correct.

A foreigner staying at the Fox Inn in Tullock goes out on Tullock Moor and vanishes, having been abducted by the Zygons.

"Terror of the Zygons."

Doctor Judson is crippled around this time. Commander A.H. Millington may be involved in some way.

"Over twenty years" before "The Curse of Fenric" (1943).

George Cranleigh's expedition to the Orinoco region of the Amazon ends in tragedy when Cranleigh is horribly disfigured by the Butiu Indians for theft of their sacred Black Orchid; he is driven mad by the experience. He is eventually rescued by Latoni, leader of a rival tribe, and brought back to his home in England. He is hidden away in the attic of Cranleigh Hall, his existence known only to Latoni and George's mother, Lady Cranleigh.

Two years before "Black Orchid" (1925).

The song "It Had to Be You" is composed by Gus Kahn and Isham Jones.

The song is performed in "The Empty Child."

November 29: The Doctor is present as Giacomo Puccini dies, his opera Turandot unfinished.

Date from historical records. The Doctor's presence is established in Doctor Who.

June: Black Orchid: 1,2: The 5th Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan meet the Cranleighs, including Charles and his fiancée Ann Talbot, who is a double of Nyssa. Charles' disfigured brother, George, who was presumed dead two years earlier, attempts to abduct Ann, to whom he was once engaged. He perishes in the attempt.

An unnamed magazine serial writer is abducted from Earth by the rulers of the Land of Fiction to be used as a source of imagination.

"The Mind Robber."

June 4: While sailing to Bombay, the S. S. Bernice and all aboard are abducted by Vorg's Mini-Scope in the future. They are returned by the 3rd Doctor's efforts to a point shortly after.

"Carnival of Monsters."

Carnival of Monsters: 4: The S. S. Bernice continues on its way to Bombay.

The Doctor is present as Cuban chess grandmaster José Raúl Capablanca loses his title to Russian-born Alexander Alekhine.

Historical records. The Doctor's presence is established in "The Androids of Tara."

The Daleks' Master Plan: The Feast of Steven: While fleeing the Daleks, the 1st Doctor, Steven, and Sara Kingdom stop briefly in Hollywood.

Exact date is conjecture.

A jar of hibiscus blossom honey produced by Welsh bee-keeper Goronwy in this year will be given to the 7th Doctor in 1959.

"Delta and the Bannermen."

March 4: Herbert Hoover is sworn in as the 31st President of the United States of America.

Historical records and "Daleks in Manhattan".

A Humber 16/50 Open Tourer Imperial Model automobile eventually owned by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart is built this year.

"Mawdryn Undead."

October 29: In the United States, on a day that will become known as Black Tuesday, the stock market suffers a devestating crash, ushering in the Great Depression. There follows a decade-long period of high unemployment, high poverty and stagnant trade around the world. Across the U.S., shanty towns, populated by the homless and unemployed, named "Hoovervilles" (after President Herbert Hoover) crop up, including one in New York City's Central Park.

Historical records and "Daleks in Manhattan".

March 17: Construction officially begins on the Empire State Building in New York City. Some time after this, the Cult of Skaro, trapped in this time period, take over the building site and hire a Mr. Diagoras as head of the construction. Mr. Diagoras also collects homeless and unemployed men for the Daleks to experiment on.

Historical records and "Daleks in Manhattan" and "Evolution of the Daleks".

The 4th Doctor visits the planet Tigella and assists the natives with a problem with their power source, the Dodecahedron.

50 years before "Meglos" (1980).

October/November: Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks: The 10th Doctor and Martha visit New York City during the Great Depression. They discover that the Daleks known as the Cult of Skaro are, in desperation, collecting the homeless and disenfranchised for a "final experiment". Using the power of a solar flare funnelled down through the Empire State Building, they plan to bend the abducted humans to their will. Dalek Sec also attempts a merging with a human being, creating a human/Dalek hybrid; Sec, experiencing human emotions, turns against the rest of the Cult. Although the Cult destroys Sec, the controlled human turn against the Daleks, killing all but Caan, who escape via emergency temporal shift.

On its long journey, Monarch's ship begins to receive radio transmissions from Earth around this time.

Fifty years before "Four to Doomsday" (1981).

The Ritz dance hall in Cardiff, Wales, opens.

"Captain Jack Harkness" (TW).

Summer: It is a hot summer in Wales, with, according to Welsh bee-keeper Goronwy, "abundant cherry blossoms." From his bee-hives, he is able to produce what, in 1959, he calls a "classic" honey.

"Delta and the Bannermen."

The future Professor Richard Lazarus is born.

Lazarus is 76 at the time of "The Lazarus Experiment" (2008).

Physicists John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, working under the direction of Ernest Rutherford's direction, become the first to split the nucleus of an atom by entirely artificial means, using a particle accelerator to bombard lithium with protons.

Historical records and mentioned by the Doctor in "Evolution of the Daleks".

The future Detective Inspector Bishop joins the police form at this time.

In "The Idiot's Lantern" (1953), Bishop says he has spent "20 years on the force."

Tom Erasmus Flanagan is born.

"Ghost Machine" (TW). Tom is 8 years old in 1941.

Myra Bennett and Melanie Gough are born this year. They will become victims of the alien "Mary" in 1970 and 1974 respectively.

"Greeks Bearing Gifts" (TW). Myra is 37 at the time of her death, Melanie is 40.

The Abominable Snowmen: 1,2,3,4,5,6: In Tibet, the 2nd Doctor, Jamie and Victoria fight the Great Intelligence at the Det-Sen monastery. The Intelligence uses robot Yeti as part of its plan. Explorer Edward Travers, who assists the travellers, eventually discovers the existence of real Yeti.

Dating of this story is revealed in "The Web of Fear."

Sarah Pallister is born. She will become one of Suzie Costello's murder victims in 2007.

Sarah's age at the time of her murder is given as 72 in "Everything Changes" (TW).

Richard Playle is born. He will be killed by "Mary" in 1973.

"Greeks Bearing Gifts" (TW). Richard is 39 when he is killed.

Emma-Louise Cowell is born.

"Out of Time" (TW). Emma is 18 when she is flung into the future from 1953.

Nancy, aged only 15, gives birth to her son, Jamie. Afraid of how people will react to her teenage parenthood, Nancy will tell others, including Jamie himself, that her son is, in fact, her younger brother.

Five years before "The Doctor Dances."

The first radio telescope on Earth in built by Grote Reber of Wheaton, Illinois in the United States.

Historical records and "Pyramids of Mars."

April 6: John Ellis's son Adam is born.

"Out of Time" (TW).

July: Pilot Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappear while attempting the Pacific Ocean stretch of a circumnavigation of the Earth. Neither their remains or the wreckage of their plane is ever found.

Historical records and "Out of Time" (TW) (although Diane misspeaks, saying this happened in 1932).

Professor Travers returns from Tibet, bringing with him many artifacts relating to the Great Intelligence and the Yeti. He sells one of the Yeti to a man named Silverstein.

"The Web of Fear."

March 12: Hilter annexes Austria, an event heralded by the passing of the Nemesis statue over the Earth.

Historical records and "Silver Nemesis."

April: Glenn Miller and His Orchestra record Miller's composition "Moonlight Serenade."

The recording is heard in "The Empty Child."

Another attempt is made to excavate the Devil's Hump in Devil's End. This attempt fails and becomes known as "the Cambridge University Fiasco."

"The Dæmons."

An Anglo-Saxon burial ship is excavated at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk.

"The Dæmons."

July 10-October 31: The German Luftwaffe unleashes an intense bombing campaign against Britain in an attempt to gain air superiority over Royal Air Force. During this "Battle of Britain", RAF Group Captain Jack Harkness registers 26 enemy casualties.

"Captain Jack Harkness" (TW).

September 7: Marking the beginning of the period known as the London Blitz, Nazi Germany begins a sustained aerial bombing of London, which Germany had previously avoided bombing during the Battle of Britain. Many nights during the Blitz, a young Richard Lazarus takes refuge in Southwark Cathedral. As he sits in the cathedral's crypt, listening to the bombs, he begins to develop aversion to dying and death.

Historial records and "The Lazarus Experiment".

December: RAF Group Captain Jack Harkness begins training a group of young recruits in Cardiff, Wales.

Five weeks before "Captain Jack Harkness" (TW).

December: A con-man and former Time Agent crash lands a stolen Chula ambulance in the heart of Blitz-torn London, having sent a false distress signal to the time-ship following him, whose crew he plans to con (unware that it the ship is a TARDIS). Unknown to the con-man, when the ambulance crashes, it releases medical nanogenes which discover a dead child named Jamie. Believing Jamie's condition to be typical human physiognomy, the nanogenes reanimate Jamie's corpse and begin to spread across London, transforming others, beginning with nearby Albion Hospital. Meanwhile, the British army sets up a cordon around the ambulance, believing the alien ship to be some sort of secret German weapon.

During the month before "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances."

January: Captain Jack Harkness (TW): Jack and Tosh of Torchwood find themselves transported through the Cardiff Rift back through time from 2008 to the Ritz dance hall in Cardiff during World War II. Tosh hides mathematical equations throughout the building to give the Torchwood team in the future enough information to accurately open the Rift and bring her and Jack home. However, the mysterious Bilis Manger, the manager and caretaker of the Ritz (who can freely travel through time), sabotages one of the formulas for his own unknown purposes. Meanwhile, Jack meets his namesake, Captain Jack Harkness, the America serving as an RAF Group Captain whose identity "Jack" acquired his first time in 1941. Eventually, the rest of the Torchwood team opens up the Rift, returning Jack and Tosh to 2008.

RAF Group Captain Jack Harkness takes his men up for their final training exercise. A group of Luftwaffe planes take them by surprise. Captain Harkness is able to take out three of the enemy and leads his men back to safety; however, Harkness himself dies as his plane goes up in flames.

The day after "Captain Jack Harkness" (TW).

The former Time Agent and now con-man, still waiting for the TARDIS' arrival, falsifies Group Captain Jack Harkness' records, making it seem that the Captain is still alive. The con-man then takes on Captain Harkness name and identity.

Between "Captain Jack Harkness" (TW) and "The Empty Child".

January 20-21: The Empty Child; The Doctor Dances: The Ninth Doctor and Rose arrive in London during the Blitz, attempting to track down a distress signal. This leads them to Captain Jack Harkness, a former Time Agent turned con-man, using a Chlua ambulance as part of a double-cross. Unfortunately, nanogenes from the ambulance, unfamiliar with human physiology, have infected the local population, changing them into zombie-like copies of Jamie, a young boy killed in an explosion. Once exposed to Jamie's mother Nancy, the nanogenes are able to properly decipher human DNA, restoring all the infectees and resuscitating Jamie. Jack joins the TARDIS crew, after sacrificing his own time ship to prevent a German bomb from killing the former infectees.

In "Everything Changes" (TW) is it stated that Captain Jack Harkness failed to report for duty on January 21, 1941, allowing a more exact dating of these episodes.

8-year old Thomas Erasmus Flanagan is evacuated from London to Cardiff. As a result of a mix-up, nobody is at the train station to meet Thomas on his arrival. The frightened boy wanders about, lost. His fear leaves an emotional imprint that will allow Gwen Cooper to use a quantum transducer to see an image of young Flanagan in 2007. Someone is finally able to find Tom and he is taken to his new home in the Welsh countryside.

"Ghost Machine" (TW).

December 7: Aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy attack the United States Pacific Fleet base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killing more than 2300 personnel and drawing the United States into World War II. Toshiko Sato's parents suffer racial abuse after the attacks.

Historical records and "Captain Jack Harkness" (TW).

The Doctor is wounded while present at the battle of El-Alamein during World War II.

Historical records. The Doctor's presence is established in "The Sea Devils."

Several reports of vampires in Romania circulate at this time.

Six months prior to "The Curse of Fenric."

In an alternate timeline, the Defence of the Republic Act in passed in England. This Act will give Brigade-Leader Lethbridge-Stewart the power to order the execution of the 3rd Doctor without need of a trial in 1972.

"Inferno."

The Curse of Fenric: 1,2,3,4: On the coast of Northumbria, the 7th Doctor and Ace confront Fenric, a powerful evil force once imprisoned by the Doctor. Fenric plans to poison the Earth with a powerful toxin; to help, he has pulled a number of Haemovores, blood-consuming creatures, and their leader, the Ancient One, back through time. The Doctor turns the Ancient One against Fenric, whom he kills.

A German "doodlebug" bomb falls in the area around what will be the Newton Institute in Wootton.

"The Time Monster."

Towards the end of World War II, the Master pulls a German V1 plane ahead through time to attack a UNIT convoy.

"The Time Monster." The Doctor describes the plane as being from "the end of the Hitler war."

May: The Allies defeat the Axis powers in Europe, ending the Second World War on that continent.

Historical records and "The Doctor Dances."

Stewart Hyde is born. He will become Dr. Ruth Ingram's assistant at the Newton Institute at Wootton.

Stewart is 26 years old at the time of "The Time Monster" (1973).

A spacecraft of unspecified origin crashes in the area of Roswell, New Mexico in the United States. The event is kept secret from the general public, but a mileometer from the craft will eventually find its way into billionaire Henry van Statten's private collection of alien artefacts.

Although the date of the crash is not given during its mention in "Dalek," this is the year of the events that led to the Roswell conspiracy theory.

The opening ceremonies for the 1948 Summer Olympics are held at Wembley Stadium in London. The Doctor attends and enjoys the spectacle so much he travels back through time to watch it again.

Historical records and "Fear Her".

The last Witchcraft Law in England is repealed at this time.

"The Dæmons."

Welsh poet Dylan Thomas composes what probably becomes his best known poem, Do not go gentle into that good night. Shakespeare is tempted to use the line "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" when the Doctor quotes it during a visit to 1599, until the Doctor points out that is it already "somebody else's".

Historical records and "The Shakespeare Code".

The future Mrs. Randall becomes Miss Ealing of 1951.

"Eye of the Gorgon" (SJA).

Sarah Jane Smith and Andrea Yates are born this year (Andrea in December).

Sarah and Andrea are both 15 in the 1964 segments of "Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?" (SJA). Andrea celebrates a birthdays during the December 2008 part of the same serial.

Pilot Diane Holmes flies from England to Australia in four days.

"Out of Time" (TW).

Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart begins his military service at this time.

By the time of "Mawdryn Undead" (1983), the Brigadier has seen "30 years of soldiering."

May 2: The FA Cup Final is held in London's Wembley Stadium. After being behind 3-1, Blackpool manages to pull off a 4-3 victory over the Bolton Wanderers. John Ellis and his son Adam watch the match on television.

Historical records and "Out of Time" (TW).

Early May: The Idiot's Lantern: A non-corporeal alien being calling itself The Wire inhabits the television sets at Magpie Electricals in Muswell Hill, North London, and attacks the store's owner, Mr. Magpie, feasting on the electrical activity of his brain. As a side-effect of this attack, his face is seemingly "erased".

According to Detective-Inspector Bishop, the faceless people started turning up about a month before the main narrative of the story, placed in June.

The Wire makes a bargain with Mr. Magpie, restoring his face in exchange for doing its bidding. Magpie begins constructing a crude portable television, following The Wire's instructions. He also begins selling his television sets at a vastly reduced price, increasing The Wire's influence as more people place the sets in their homes. Over the next month, The Wire begins feeding on viewers, blanking their faces. Muswell Hill resident Eddie Connolly begins phoning the police to have the victims taken away.

"The Idiot's Lantern".

May 29: Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay perform the first successful ascent to the summit of Mount Everest.

Historical records and "The Idiot's Lantern".

June 1-2: The Idiot's Lantern: The 10th Doctor and Rose encounter The Wire, an energy being manifesting itself through televisions and feeding on the electrical activity of the human viewers, leaving behind faceless shells. The Wire plans to use the Alexandra Palace to feed on the 20 million people watching the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, giving The Wire corporeal form. The Doctor turns the transmitter into a receiver and traps The Wire on a Betamax video tape.

November: The film Calamity Jane, starring Doris Day and Howard Keel is released. Emma-Louise Cowell and her best friend Kate see the film five times and Emma buys the soundtrack LP.

The film was only released in November '53 in the United States, but not in the U.K. until the following year. Either Emma and Kate visited the U.S. or there is a minor difference in released dates between the "Doctor Who" universe and our own.

December 18: The small airplane Sky Gypsy, on its way to Dublin, is pulled through the Cardiff Rift sending its pilot, Diane Holmes, and passengers Emma-Louise Cowell and John Ellis, forward through time to December 2007. The Sky Gypsy is presumed to have crashed into the sea.

"Out of Time" (TW).

Sept. 15: Rose's father, Peter Alan Tyler is born.

"Father's Day."

The 4th Doctor visits Prof. Chronotis at St Cedd's College in Cambridge.

"Shada."

Chris Parsons is born.

"Shada."

September 9: Elvis Presley performs a number of songs, including "Hound Dog", live during his first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show". The 10th Doctor and Rose attempt to attend the airing but miss, ending up in London, 1953.

Historical records and "The Idiot's Lantern".

The Doctor visits Prof. Chronotis at St Cedd's College, Cambridge.

"Shada."

Lucy Marmer is born. She will become one of "Mary's" victims in 2001.

"Greeks Bearing Gifts" (TW). She is 43 at the time of her death.

The children's program "Blue Peter" begins its lengthy run on the BBC.

The Doctor watches a brief segment of the show in "Aliens of London," confirming its existence in the "Doctor Who" universe.

Professor Edgar Nelson-Stanley and his wife Beatrice uncover a talisman during an archeological dig in Syria. The talisman belongs to the alien Gorgons and would allow them to open a portal for the rest of their kind to invade Earth. During an attempt to retrieve the talisman from the Nelson-Stanleys, the second of the three Gorgons is destroyed.

50 years before "Eye of the Gorgon" (SJA) (2008).

1959

The United States launches an important artificial satellite from Cape Canaveral.

Shortly before "Delta and the Bannermen."

Delta and the Bannermen: 1,2,3: A tour group from the future, including the 7th Doctor and Mel, goes off course and crashes in Wales. One of the group is really Delta, queen of the Chimerons, fleeing from the Bannermen, who have wiped out the rest of her people. With the help of the staff at Shangri-La Holiday Camp, and two American secret agents, the Doctor defeats the Bannermen using the vocal abilities of Delta's new-born daughter.

Emma-Louise Cowell's father dies.

"Out of Time" (TW).

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