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Conjectural late 20th/Early 21st Century Doctor Who Timeline

I used to have an argument for placing "Partners in Crime" and the Sontaran episodes in March and "Journey's End" in April... but I forget what it was.

You only give U.N.I.T. a month to reverse-engineer a Sontaran transmat into a workable prototype for Project Indigo?
I'd suggest that as far as reverse-engineering vastly advanced alien transporters go, two months isn't really significantly better than one. ;)
Only problem I saw was you have Sally Sparrow giving the Doctor the information about her adventure before he meets Martha, but in the episode, Martha was with him when Sally catches him on the street and hands over the information.
Yeah; I just assumed the Doctor and Martha had landed in mid-2008 for whatever reason and got embroiled in whatever adventure they were on when Sally met them.
Yeah, I think the story of Martha's "week away" in Series Three really requires "Blink" to come beforehand. That said, the "Blink" can't go in the two months before "Army of Ghosts" because otherwise there'd be ghosts running around!

Another point to add: in "Human Nature", John Smith says that the Doctor and Martha encountered the Family of Blood in 2007. Martha's MySpace blog (written by Joseph Lidster) specifies that this was at Eurovision, so it was May 12.
 
I used to have an argument for placing "Partners in Crime" and the Sontaran episodes in March and "Journey's End" in April... but I forget what it was.

You only give U.N.I.T. a month to reverse-engineer a Sontaran transmat into a workable prototype for Project Indigo?
I'd suggest that as far as reverse-engineering vastly advanced alien transporters go, two months isn't really significantly better than one. ;)

Fair point!

Only problem I saw was you have Sally Sparrow giving the Doctor the information about her adventure before he meets Martha, but in the episode, Martha was with him when Sally catches him on the street and hands over the information.
Yeah; I just assumed the Doctor and Martha had landed in mid-2008 for whatever reason and got embroiled in whatever adventure they were on when Sally met them.
Yeah, I think the story of Martha's "week away" in Series Three really requires "Blink" to come beforehand. That said, the "Blink" can't go in the two months before "Army of Ghosts" because otherwise there'd be ghosts running around!

Another point to add: in "Human Nature", John Smith says that the Doctor and Martha encountered the Family of Blood in 2007. Martha's MySpace blog (written by Joseph Lidster) specifies that this was at Eurovision, so it was May 12.

Good catches, those!
 
I hope no one minds resurrecting a thread, but I've now updated my timeline with information from the rest of Series Five.

I'm afraid that I chose to be a bit inconsistent. I included events from most of Series Five, even though "The Big Bang" reveals that most of that season takes place in an alternate timeline that has now been erased from history, in the same way that the events of "Turn Left" and "Last of the Time Lords" were later erased from history. I've chosen not to include the alternate timelines of "Turn Left" and "Last of the Time Lords," but the events of Series Five just seemed too important to the Doctor's and Amy's experiences not to include them.

Also, it's not clear how many of their adventures were erased and how many were simply altered (since "The Pandorica Opens" made it clear that sometimes things can remain even after an erasure).

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Conjectural 20th and 21st Century Doctor Who Timeline​

1986: The Doctor and Rose Tyler attend the wedding of Pete and Jackie Tyler. (DW: "Father's Day")

1987: Rose Tyler nearly averts the death of Pete Tyler, leading to the appearance of the Reapers; paradox resolved with the death of Pete Tyler (DW: "Father's Day")

Easter 1996: In an altered timeline, a Crack in space-time occurs in the Pond residence in Leadworth, England; Prisoner Zero escapes from the Atraxi, takes refuge in Pond residence; the Doctor lands in Leadworth after regenerating and encounters Amelia Pond (DW: "The Eleventh Hour"); these events are later re-written out of history, though the Doctor and Amy later retain their memories of this incident (DW: “The Big Bang”)

Easter 1996: In an altered timeline, Amelia Pond believes in stars in a universe that has been without them for two thousand years; Amelia later opens the Pandorica at the National Gallery, saving her older counterpart; the Doctor, Amy Pond, and River Song reverse the TARDIS’s explosion, reversing the total event collapse and erasing this alteration of the timeline from history (DW: “The Big Bang”)

30-31 December 1999: The TARDIS lands in San Francisco; the Doctor is shot by rival street gangs, dies and regenerates in a San Francisco hospital (TV movie: Doctor Who)

1 January 2000: Torchwood Three freelance agent Jack Harkness discovers massacre of Torchwood Three staff, becomes new Torchwood Three leader (TW: "Fragments"); the Doctor saves the Earth from the Master (TV movie: Doctor Who)

1 January 2005: The Doctor visits Rose Tyler for the last time in his life, at a point in her life before she had first met his ninth incarnation; death of the Doctor’s tenth incarnation, regeneration into his eleventh incarnation (DW: "The End of Time, Part Two")

March 2005: Rose Tyler encounters the Doctor at Henrick’s, helps avert an Auton invasion, leaves to travel with him (DW: "Rose," "Aliens of London")

March 2006: Rose Tyler returns to the Powell Estate after being missing for a year; First Contact: The Slitheen of Raxicoricalfalipatorious assassinate British Prime Minister Tony Blair, destroy Big Ben; Downing Street destroyed by the Doctor while averting Slitheen plot (DW: "Aliens of London"/"World War Three")

September 2006: Blon Fel Fotch Pasameer Day Slitheen impersonates Margaret Blaine as Lord Mayor of Cardiff; the Doctor captures her, she reverts to egg form and is delivered to Raxicoricalfalipatorious (DW: "Boom Town")

November 2006: Rose Tyler returned to the 21st Century involuntarily from a Dalek invasion in the 2,002nd Century, rejects escape, looks into the Heart of the TARDIS to save the Doctor (DW: "The Parting of the Ways")

24-25 December 2006: Attempted Sycorax invasion; the Doctor, newly regenerated, starts a rumor that leads to vote of no confidence against British Prime Minister Harriet Jones (DW: "The Christmas Invasion")

1 January 2007: The Doctor and Rose Tyler leave for New Earth in the Year Five Billion and Fifty (DW: "New Earth;" exact date is speculative)

February 2007: The Doctor and Rose Tyler investigate Deffry Vale School, encounter Sarah Jane Smith; Mickey Smith joins the TARDIS crew (DW: "School Reunion")

March 2007: The Doctor and Rose Tyler defeat the Absorbaloff; the Master arrives on Earth, assumes the guise of Harold Saxon; United Kingdom Prime Minister Harriet Jones loses a vote of no confidence (DW: "Love & Monsters;" "The Sound of Drums")

April 2007: Henry Van Staten houses a captive Dalek beneath Utah, United States; Rose Tyler and the Doctor encounter the Dalek, and help it commit suicide after it exterminates numerous Humans (Note: Date corrected from the Doctor’s date of 2012 to keep episode consistent with Dalek Invasion of 2009.) (DW: "Dalek")

12 May 2007: The Doctor and Martha Jones travel to see the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest, are first attacked by the Family of Blood (DW: “Human Nature,” Martha Jones MySpace Blog)

May 2007: “Ghosts” – impressions of an invading Cybus Cybermen army – first start appearing in response to the Torchwood Institute’s experiments with a weak point in the walls between dimensions (DW: “Army of Ghosts”)

July 2007: Battle of Canary Wharf; fall of Torchwood One; the Doctor and Rose Tyler defeat the Cybus Cybermen and the Cult of Skaro; Rose Tyler sucked into the alternate universe (DW: "Army of Ghosts"/"Doomsday")

August 2007: Sally Sparrow encounters the Weeping Angels, is saved by the Doctor and Martha Jones (DW: "Blink")

July-October 2007: Torchwood Three leader Jack Harkness assumes overall control of the Torchwood Institute after Torchwood One's fall in the Battle of Canary Wharf (TW: "Everything Changes;" DW: "The Sound of Drums")

October 2007: Cardiff Police Constable Gwen Cooper discovers Torchwood Three, becomes one of its agents (TW: "Everything Changes")

25 December 2007: The Doctor and Rose Tyler have their last contact prior to the 2009 Dalek Invasion; the Doctor encounters Donna Noble, defeats the Racnoss; River Thames drained; Harold Saxon is United Kingdom Defense Minister (DW: "Doomsday," "The Runaway Bride")

January 2008: A Saxon faction candidate is running in a special election for a House of Commons constituency in Cardiff; Torchwood Three investigates abandoned dance hall, agents temporally displaced to 1940s London; the Cardiff Rift is opened, Captain Jack Harkness defeats the creature Abaddon; TARDIS lands in Cardiff to absorb energy from the Rift, Harkness stows away on its exterior; TARDIS begins its journey to the Year 100 Trillion; Harkness is believed to have disappeared (TW: "Captain Jack Harkness;" "End of Days;" DW: "Utopia")

April 2008: The Doctor returns Prisoner Zero to the Atraxi and saves the Earth, meets Amy Pond again (DW: "The Eleventh Hour"); these events are later re-written out of history by the closing of the Cracks in the Universe, though the Doctor, Amy Pond, and Rory Williams retain their memories of these events (DW: “The Big Bang”)

June 2008: The Doctor and Martha Jones encounter Sally Sparrow, who gives them a guide to the previous year’s Weeping Angels crisis (DW: "Blink")

4 November 2008: Arthur Coleman Winters elected President of the United States (DW: "The Sound of Drums")

11 November 2008: Royal Hope Hospital in London displaced to Luna by the Judoon; the Doctor encounters Martha Jones, asks her to travel with him; Harold Saxon is leading a political faction bearing his name in the 2008 United Kingdom General Election (DW: "Smith and Jones")

12 November 2008: Richard Lazarus attempts his immortality experiment with funds from U.K. Defense Minister and Saxon faction leader Harold Saxon (DW: "The Lazarus Experiment")

13 November 2008: 2008 United Kingdom General Election; Saxon faction wins majority of seats in House of Commons; U.K. government agents loyal to Saxon enter Jones home, record Francine Jones’s conversation with Martha Jones in the 51st Century (DW: "42")

14 November 2008: Harold Saxon appointed Prime Minister; Jones family detained; the Doctor, Torchwood Three leader Jack Harkness, and Martha Jones proclaimed wanted terrorists (DW: "The Sound of Drums")

15 November 2008: First Contact with the “Toclafane;” assassination of United States President-elect Arthur Coleman Winters aboard Unified Intelligence Taskforce aircraft carrier Valiant; assassination of the Master/Harold Saxon by Lucy Saxon; Jack Harkness returns to Cardiff and Torchwood Three (DW: "The Sound of Drums," "Last of the Time Lords;" TW: "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang")

25 December 2008: London significantly abandoned in wake of Racnoss and Sycorax attacks the two prior Christmases; near-destruction of Buckingham Palace and Southern England by the Stow space liner Titanic; the Doctor first encounters Wilfred Mott, grandfather of Donna Noble (DW: "Voyage of the Damned")

April 2009: Adipose incident in London; Donna Noble travels with the Doctor; the Sontaran Empire attempts to conquer Earth, is thwarted by the Doctor and the Unified Intelligence Taskforce (DW: "Partners in Crime;" "The Sontaran Stratagem"/"The Poison Sky")

Saturday, June 2009: Displacement of Earth to the Medusa Cascade; Dalek Invasion of 2009; assassination of Harriet Jones, former British Prime Minister; assassination of British Prime Minister Aubrey Fairchild; destruction of the U.N.I.T. vessel Valiant; Earth military forces significantly depleted; the Doctor and his allies rescue the Earth and defeat the Daleks (DW: "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End"); the young Adelaide Brooke looks into the eye of a Dalek and is spared extermination (DW: "The Waters of Mars")

August 2009: The Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith avert a plot by the Trickster to defeat Smith and her friends on Bannerman Road (SJA: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith)

September 2009: The 4-5-6 Crisis; British Prime Minister Brian Green resigns; coup d'état in the United Kingdom by the United States Armed Forces; possible resignation of Arthur Coleman Winters’s successor as United States President; death of Torchwood agent Ianto Jones (TW: Children of Earth)

September 2009: Barack Obama becomes United States President in wake of 4-5-6 Crisis, achieves high popularity in wake of ongoing financial crises stemming from bank failures and alien invasions (Speculative, based on his high popularity in DW: "The End of Time, Part One")

24 December 2009: Resurrection of the Master by Saxon cult (DW: "The End of Time, Part One")

25 December 2009: Creation of the Master Race; temporal displacement of the Time Lords and planet Gallifrey from the last day of the Time War to 2009; Human race restored, Master and Time Lords disappear back into the Time War; absorption of radiation by the Doctor to save Wilfred Mott (DW: The End of Time)

December 2009: The Doctor, suffering from radiation poisoning, says his goodbyes to Sarah Jane Smith, Luke Smith, Mickey and Martha Jones-Smith, and Verity Newman (DW: "The End of Time, Part Two")

March 2010: Torchwood Three leader Jack Harkness abandons Earth in the wake of being forced to murder his grandson in the 4-5-6 Crisis (TW: “Children of Earth, Day Five”); the Doctor visits Harkness in a pub in Zaggit Zagoo on Planet Zog prior to his regeneration, introduces him to former Stow space liner midshipman Alonso Frame; wedding of Donna Noble to Shaun Temple; the Doctor visits the Noble family one last time during the wedding, giving them a winning lottery ticket bought with money borrowed from the late Geoffrey Noble before regenerating (DW: “The End of Time, Part Two”)

4 April 2010: The 200 London Bus travels to San Helios; the Doctor saves Earth with help from British contingent of the Unified Intelligence Taskforce, discovers that he is prophesied to die or regenerate as “he will knock four times” (DW: "Planet of the Dead")

5 June 2010: The Doctor and Amy Pond visit the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France, where the Doctor detects a temporal incursion in the timeline of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh; the Doctor, Amy Pond, and van Gogh return to the Musée, where van Gogh discovers his destiny as a famous artist; upon their return a third time, the Doctor and Amy find that this revelation did not avert van Gogh’s suicide (DW: “Vincent and the Doctor;” date is conjectural based upon airdate); these events are possibly later erased from history or re-written by the Doctor’s closure of the Cracks in the Universe, though the Doctor and Amy Pond retain their memories of this incident (DW: “The Big Bang”)

8-12 June 2010: The Doctor stranded in Colchester, Essex; the Doctor becomes a lodger of Craig Owens, discovers attempted alien TARDIS-like vessel preventing the TARDIS from landing, consuming humans; destruction of the imitation TARDIS (DW: “The Lodger;” dates conjectural based upon airdate); these events are later erased out of history or re-written by the closure of the Cracks in the Universe, though the Doctor and Amy Pond retain their memories of this event (DW: “The Big Bang”)

25 June 2010: The Doctor returns to Leadworth, invites Amy Pond to travel with him the night before her wedding (DW: "The Eleventh Hour," “Flesh and Stone”); this event is later re-written out of history, though the Doctor and Amy Pond retain their memories of the event (DW: “The Big Bang”)

25-26 June 2010: In an altered timeline, the Doctor and Amy return to the Pond residence after the crash of the Byzantium, five minutes after Amy left Leadworth; Amy attempts to seduce the Doctor, who deduces that the day of her wedding will be the date of the origin of the Cracks in the Universe (DW: “Flesh and Stone”); these events are later re-written in some way by the closing of the Cracks, though the Doctor, Amy Pond, and River Song retain their memories of the event (DW: “The Big Bang”)

26 June 2010: In an altered timeline, agents of the Pandorica Alliance arrive in Leadworth, invade the Pond residence, and use snapshots of the house’s psychic residue to create the Pandorica scenario in 102 C.E. at Stonehenge; the TARDIS is drawn to the Pond residence immediately after the home invasion, forcing 51st Century adventurer River Song to discover the Alliance's actions; the TARDIS is later taken over by the entity known as the Silence, exploding and causing total event collapse before the Doctor reverses the process; these events are later re-written out of history by the Doctor (DW: “The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang”)

26 June 2010: In an altered timeline, the Doctor visits Rory Williams at his bachelor party and invites him to travel to 16th Century Venice with him and Amy as a wedding gift (DW: “The Vampires of Venice”); this event is later re-written out of history, though the Doctor and Rory Williams retain their memories of the event (DW: “The Big Bang”)

26 June 2010: Marriage of Amy Pond and Rory Williams; River Song gives Amy an anonymous wedding gift; Amy Pond, retaining her subconscious memories of her travels with the Doctor in an altered timeline before his closing of the Cracks in the Universe, is able to consciously recall the Doctor after receiving Song’s diary, allowing the Doctor and the TARDIS to re-integrate into history; the Doctor visits Rory’s and Amy’s wedding, and then leaves with the two on a mission to rescue the future Orient Express (DW: “The Big Bang”)

27 July 2012: The Doctor and Rose Tyler save the 2012 Summer Olympiad in London (DW: "Fear Her")

May 2020: Silurian incident in Cwmtaff, South Wales; Silurians re-enter hibernation after failed peace talks with Humans; death and erasure from the timeline of Rory Williams (DW: “The Hungry Earth;” “Cold Blood;” month conjectural based upon airdate); these events are later either erased from or re-written in history by the Doctor’s closure of the Cracks in the universe, though the Doctor, Amy Pond, and Rory Williams retain their memories of these events (DW: “The Big Bang”)

1 July 2058: Bowie Base One established by the World State in the Gusev Crater on Mars (DW: "The Waters of Mars")

21 November 2059: Infiltration of Bowie Base One by the Flood; destruction of Bowie Base One on orders of Captain Adelaide Brooke; the Doctor rescues Brooke and two crew members who had originally died on Mars; Brooke commits suicide rather than alter the timeline from one of its "fixed points" (DW: "The Waters of Mars")
 
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Nicely done.

For what it's worth, we have an extra verification that "Vincent and the Doctor" and "The Lodger" take place relatively proximate in that we see a flyer for the van Gogh event on Craig's fridge.
 
Of course although in this case this won't be going anywhere else except my night stand. Any chance and this might be asking a lot of you...of a complete Doctor Who timeline? It might give you something to do while we all wait for the Christmas special. I know I'll appreciate it one.
 
Very nicely done indeed.

One thing though - you're got Rory's stag night on the day of his wedding. Unless there's a line in Vampires of Venice I'm forgetting, it was the night before (25th June). It'd take a man with serious balls to have his stag on the morning of the day he gets married!
 
Well, the Doctor and Amy leave her room to get Rory right after the clock strikes midnight, so technically we saw Rory's party the morning of the wedding.
 
Very nicely done indeed.

One thing though - you're got Rory's stag night on the day of his wedding. Unless there's a line in Vampires of Venice I'm forgetting, it was the night before (25th June). It'd take a man with serious balls to have his stag on the morning of the day he gets married!

In "The Vampires of Venice," there was a brief establishing shot of Amy's room when Rory called her house. It was exactly like she had left it when she left to go with the Doctor at the end of both "The Eleventh Hour" and "Flesh and Stone," so it seemed to me that Rory's party was most probably held on the evening of 25-26 June.

Of course although in this case this won't be going anywhere else except my night stand. Any chance and this might be asking a lot of you...of a complete Doctor Who timeline? It might give you something to do while we all wait for the Christmas special. I know I'll appreciate it one.

Well, thanks!

I might get around at some point to doing a more complete timeline -- though, warning, if I do, it will only encompass the revived Doctor Who and those episodes of Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures that I've seen, not the original series or other spin-off episodes.
 
^That's what I kind of count myself having only read a couple of the novels and listened to one or two audio adventures.
 
5 June 2010: The Doctor and Amy Pond visit the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France, where the Doctor detects a temporal incursion in the timeline of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh; the Doctor, Amy Pond, and van Gogh return to the Musée, where van Gogh discovers his destiny as a famous artist; upon their return a third time, the Doctor and Amy find that this revelation did not avert van Gogh’s suicide (DW: “Vincent and the Doctor;” date is conjectural based upon airdate); these events are possibly later erased from history or re-written by the Doctor’s closure of the Cracks in the Universe, though the Doctor and Amy Pond retain their memories of this incident (DW: “The Big Bang”)


Maybe I'm remembering things wrong, but wasn't there snow on the ground in Paris in Vincent and the Doctor? If so, it would make more sense to place that in a winter month.
 
5 June 2010: The Doctor and Amy Pond visit the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France, where the Doctor detects a temporal incursion in the timeline of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh; the Doctor, Amy Pond, and van Gogh return to the Musée, where van Gogh discovers his destiny as a famous artist; upon their return a third time, the Doctor and Amy find that this revelation did not avert van Gogh’s suicide (DW: “Vincent and the Doctor;” date is conjectural based upon airdate); these events are possibly later erased from history or re-written by the Doctor’s closure of the Cracks in the Universe, though the Doctor and Amy Pond retain their memories of this incident (DW: “The Big Bang”)

Maybe I'm remembering things wrong, but wasn't there snow on the ground in Paris in Vincent and the Doctor? If so, it would make more sense to place that in a winter month.

You know, I just checked, and you're absolutely right! There's snow, and passers-by are wearing boots, so that episode's 2010 sequences seem indeed to take place some time in winter.

Will fix! Thanks!
 
Well, I certainly wouldn't dare presume to speak for Sci, but I would think it would make more sense to wait until next week, in case Epic Finale has anything related to modern day in it.
 
I am bumping this thread to demand that Sci update it to take Season 6 and Miracle Day into account!

You are entirely too kind, Steve. Thanks. :)

I've been slowly trying to update it, but I'm afraid that while I've recently caught up with Doctor Who, I'm terribly far behind in Miracle Day, so it will be a while...
 
Oh, man. Figuring out a good placement for "Closing Time" is gonna be a pain...
 
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