[797] The lockpick is mentioned in Pyramids of Mars. The Doctor mentions Marie Antoinette again in The Robots of Death.
[798] The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
[799] The Beautiful People
[800] The Resurrection of Mars. Antoinette was Queen of France from 1774 to 1792.
[801] The Crystal Bucephalus
[802] The Daemons
[803] The Burning
[804] The Banquo Legacy
[805] Dating The Reign of Terror (1.8) - The date is given on screen. The Programme Guide offered the date “1792”, but The Terrestrial Index corrected this. The story shows the arrest of Robespierre, which occurred on 27th July.
[806] The Man in the Velvet Mask
[807] Dating World Game (PDA #74) - Serena gives the date of the Doctor’s arrival as 9th August, 1794. The Duke of Wellington was a leading military and political figure. He was a Field Marshall during the Napoleonic Wars, and oversaw Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo.
[808] Christmas on a Rational Planet
[809] The Scarlet Empress (p90). Coleridge lived 1772-1834.
[810] The Hollow Men, Blood Heat
[811] The Death of Art
[812] The Sands of Time. Napoleon began his expedition in March 1798, and the year is given (p203).
[813] Dating Set Piece (NA #35) - It is “1798 CE” (p57).
[814] The Zygon Who Fell to Earth. William Wordsworth lived 1770-1850, and his magnum opus is generally regarded as The Prelude - a work he started working on when he was 28, but was published posthumously.
[815] The Banquo Legacy
[816] Interference (p59, p147).
[817] Dating Christmas on a Rational Planet (NA #52) - It’s “1799. At Christmas” (p24).
[818] “The early nineteenth century” according to The Eight Doctors.
[819] Instruments of Darkness. In our history, the dodo was extinct by 1700.
[820] The Lazarus Experiment
[821] A Thousand Tiny Wings. This presumably occurred when the Arapaho lived on the plains - they were relocated, in the mid-nineteenth century, to reservations in Wyoming and Oklahoma.
[822] The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories: “Special Features”
[823] “The Glorious Dead”
[824] “Millennia” before Earth Aid.
[825] Dating Foreign Devils (TEL #5) - It’s “December 1800” (p22).
[826] Dating The Man in the Velvet Mask (MA #19) - The Doctor and Dodo see a poster that gives a date of “Messidor, Year XII”, and the Doctor calculates that they are in “June or July 1804”.
[827] Dating The Rising Night (BBC DW audiobook #4) - The Doctor guesses that it’s the seventeenth or early eighteenth century; the back cover says that it’s the eighteenth. It’s said that the Baobhan is freed in October, and the Doctor arrives three weeks later, so it’s quite possibly November by now.
[828] Dating TimeH: The Clockwork Woman (TimeH #3) - The year is given.
[829] The Sea Devils. Nelson lived 1758-1805.
[830] Eye of Heaven. Nelson’s final battle occurred on 21st October, 1805.
[831] The Scarlet Empress
[832] “Fire and Brimstone”
[833] Dating World Game (PDA #74) - The date is given, and is indeed the only day Nelson and Wellington met historically.
[834] Benny: The Medusa Effect. This presumably denotes The Battle of Trafalgar by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), painted in 1806, and currently owned by the Tate Gallery in London.
[835] Dating Seasons of Fear (BF #30) - The date is given.
[836] “Forty years” before Demon Quest: A Shard of Ice.
[837] Twenty years before The Beast of Orlok.
[838] “About two hundred years” before The Raincloud Man.
[839] “Two hundred years” before Planet of the Dead. There is no International Gallery in real life, but we see it again in SJA: Mona Lisa’s Revenge.
[840] “Two hundred years” before SJA: Eye of the Gorgon.
[841] According to a gravestone in The Curse of Fenric.
[842] Managra. This happened to one of the first three Doctors.
[843] “The Forgotten”
[844] The Pit
[845] The Eye of the Tyger, which sounds like a different visit to the one seen in The Pit.
[846] Hornets’ Nest: The Stuff of Nightmares
[847] Night of the Humans (p16). Pond lived 1767 to 1836, and served as Astronomer Royal from 1811 to 1835.
[848] The Devil Goblins from Neptune. Other references to meeting the Duke of Wellington around this time appear in The Tomorrow Windows, Synthespians™ and The Book of the Still.
[849] The War Games
[850] Day of the Daleks. The Doctor does not meet Napoleon in The Reign of Terror (although Ian and Barbara do). The third Doctor is still exiled in the twentieth century timezone, so he must have met Napoleon in an earlier incarnation (see Mother Russia and World Game). Napoleon lived 1769-1821. The meeting is also mentioned in Escape Velocity and Warmonger.
[851] The Impossible Astronaut. Napoleon lived 1769-1821.
[852] TW: Greeks Bearing Gifts. Mary is evidently from the same race as the peaceful “star poet” seen in SJA: Invasion of the Bane, which suggests that - as Mary speculates in the Torchwood episode - her planet has undergone a regime change.
[853] Dating Emotional Chemistry (EDA #66) - The date is given in the blurb.
[854] Dating “The Time of My Life” (DWM #399) - Jonathan Morris’ behind-the-scenes notes in The Widow’s Curse graphic novel specifies that this scene originated from a pitch of his where “Napoleon attacks Moscow with nuclear bombs”. The resolution to this dilemma is never told, but said temporal interference is presumably (but not necessarily) erased from history.
[855] Loups-Garoux
[856] Dating Mother Russia (BF CC #2.1) - As the back cover says, “it’s 1812”. The Doctor’s party is said to lodge with Nikitin for some “weeks” before Napoleon marches on Moscow and the battle of Borodino, which occurred on 7th September. Steven claims that it’s “spring” when the TARDIS arrives, but that would mean that the TARDIS crew spends entire months with Nikitin, so he’s probably just estimating and it’s actually summer.
Troublingly, the historical 1812 fire of Moscow and the withdrawal of Napoleon’s troops from the city (concurrent with the arrival of winter, which is why it starts snowing in the final scene) are here conflated into the same day. In real life, the fire occurred 14th-18th September, but Napoleon’s troops didn’t withdraw until a month later, on 18th-19th October. It’s possible that Napoleon have left sooner in the Doctor Who universe than in real-life - but mid-September still seems a bit early for snow, even for Moscow.
The fifth Doctor recalls witnessing Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in Loups-Garoux, and that the occassion had stormy weather - retroactively, this could be taken as a reference to Mother Russia.
[857] Iris: The Panda Invasion
[858] “End Game” (DWM)
[859] Dating The Mark of the Rani (22.3) - The date is never stated on screen or in the script, but DWM reported that the production team felt that the story was set in “1830”. The Terrestrial Index set the story “c1825”, the novelisation simply said “the beginning of the nineteenth century”. Tony Scupham-Bilton concluded in Celestial Toyroom that, judging by the historical evidence and the month the story was filmed, the story was “set in either October 1821 or October 1822”. As that article states, the story must at the very least be set before the Stockton-Darlington line was opened in September 1825, and after Thomas Liddell was made Baron Ravensworth on 17th July, 1821. However, Jane Baker later told DWM that her research was confused by the Victorian convention of biographies referring to Lords by their titles even before they were given them. Given that, Jim Smith in Who’s Next suggested that the date given in DWM was a mishearing of “1813”, which fits all the evidence apart from the existence of Lord Ravensworth.
[860] Dating Frostfire (BF CC #1.1) - T
he year is given. Historically, the last River Thames frost fair started on 1st February, 1814, and only lasted four days. The issue of whether the first Doctor only had one heart or not is complicated by the phoenix’s comment about the cold “in the Doctor’s hearts”. As Austen claims, she had only published two novels by 1814: Sense and Sensibility (1811) and Pride and Prejudice (1813). Mansfield Park, her third book, saw print in July 1814.
[861] Iris: The Panda Invasion. Austen lived 1775 to 1817.
[862] A Good Man Goes to War
[863] Dating World Game (PDA #74) - The Doctor arrives on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, so therefore it’s 17th June, 1815.
[864] The Dying Days. His first name and rank were given in The Scales of Injustice.
[865] The Eye of the Jungle
[866] The Eight Doctors
[867] Dating World Game (PDA #74) - The date is given.
[868] Players, almost certainly the same meeting mentioned in The Eight Doctors. The bank account is also mentioned in World Game.
[869] The Land of the Dead
[870] Dating The Company of Friends: “Mary’s Story” (BF #123d) - “It was 1816,” says Mary, later adding that it was “one dreary night in June”. Interestingly, Mary was calling herself “Mary Shelley” (as opposed to “Mary Godwin”, her maiden name) by this point, even though she and Percy weren’t actually married. They wouldn’t wed until late 1816, after his first wife killed herself. The Doctor having familiarity with Byron, Mary Shelley and/or the night that Frankenstein was created was also mentioned in Storm Warning, Neverland, Zagreus and Terror Firma. Managra mentions a separate incident involving the Doctor, Byron and Percy Shelley.
[871] The Silver Turk
[872] The Company of Friends: “Mary’s Story”
[873] The epilogue to Army of Death has Mary deciding to ask the Doctor to take her home. That story also implies, however, that they’ve only experienced events in The Silver Turk, The Witch from the Well, Army of Death and a side trip to the planet Mayhem. Given that she and the Doctor travel together for “years” (The Company of Friends: “Mary’s Story”), perhaps she reconsiders for a time, or she goes home for a bit and travels with him again.
[874] Dating The Ghosts of N-Space (MA #7) - It is “eighteen eighteen” (p63), one hundred and fifty-seven years before the present-day setting (p200).
[875] The Doctor mentions Beau Brummel in The Sensorites, The Twin Dilemma and The Two Doctors. Brummel lived 1778-1840. He was an arbiter of fashion in Regency England, and helped further the style known as “dandyism”.
[876] The Dalek ship crashed “two hundred years” before The Power of the Daleks. This is the first recorded Dalek expedition in our solar system assuming, of course, that Vulcan is (or was) in our solar system. War of the Daleks states that this capsule is from the far future (after Remembrance of the Daleks), and this fits some of the circumstantial evidence - a Dalek from this mission recognises the Doctor, despite his regeneration (and despite no recorded adventures with any Doctor - except for Genesis of the Daleks - up to this point). In Day of the Daleks, the Daleks must use the Mind Analysis Machine to establish the Doctor’s identity. On the other hand, the Daleks are silver and blue, and dependent on external power supplies - quite unlike the Davros Era Daleks.
[877] War of the Daleks
[878] “Eighty years” before Horror of Fang Rock.
[879] The Stones of Blood
[880] The Curse of Fenric
[881] The Sands of Time (p220). The year is given, and Napoleon died 5th May, 1821.
[882] “Seaside Rendezvous”
[883] The Silent Stars Go By. Chingachgook (misspelled here as “Chingachook”) appeared in Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, published from 1826 to 1841.
[884] The liner notes to Army of Death hint that this book was inspired by Mary’s trip to the planet Draxine, and her encountering an army of skeletons there.
[885] Dating The Beast of Orlok (BF BBC7 #3.3) - The year is given. Greta says that she and Hans can’t leave Earth because Frau Tod will kill them if they “weren’t home for Christmas”, and she makes an “early gift” to the Doctor by returning his sonic screwdriver - but the statements are offhanded enough that the story doesn’t necessarily take place in winter.
[886] Dating The Eye of the Jungle (BBC DW audiobook #13) - The year is given in the blurb, and when the Doctor whispers to his companions, “Ahhhh... this is 1827, the year before London Zoo opens”.
[887] Dating Medicinal Purposes (BF #60) - The back cover says 1827. Burke and Hare met the real Knox in November 1827, but the majority of their murders occurred throughout 1828, until they were caught in November of that year. The audio concurs with the historical date for Burke’s execution. Hare was granted immunity because he turned King’s Evidence against Burke. The real Knox was never prosecuted.
[888] The Eye of the Jungle. The zoo opened on 27th April, 1828, at first as a collection for benefit of scientists. It opened to the public in 1847.
[889] Assassin in the Limelight
[890] “Three years” before Hornets’ Nest: The Circus of Doom.
[891] The Stealers from Saiph
[892] Timeless
[893] Reckless Engineering
[894] The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
[895] Dating Hornets’ Nest: The Circus of Doom (BBC fourth Doctor audio #1.3) - The Hornets told the Doctor they met “over a hundred years ago” in Hornets’ Nest: The Dead Shoes. It’s “June” and “1832” according to the Doctor here. The CD sleeve includes a Radio Times entry saying it’s “1832”, and a letter from Sally’s father - dated “15th June 1832” - warning against the circus.
[896] “One hundred seventy-six years” before Voyage of the Damned.
[897] Dating Bloodtide (BF #22) - The date is given.
[898] “These past ten years” before Demon Quest: A Shard of Ice.
[899] Cuddlesome. William Webb Ellis is the alleged inventor of rugby, and lived 1806-1872.
[900] Sometime Never
[901] “Three years” before “The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack”.
[902] The Curse of Peladon. Victoria was crowned in 1838.
[903] The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
[904] According to Professor Litefoot in The Talons of Weng-Chiang, the gun “hasn’t been fired for fifty years”.
[905] The Two Doctors. The architect Isambard Kingdom Brunel lived 1806-1859, and also features in Reckless Engineering.
[906] The Romans
[907] SJA: Mona Lisa’s Revenge
[908] Benny: The Grel Escape
[909] Benny: Epoch: Judgement Day. Bernice wonders if it’s the “eighteenth or nineteenth century”, the blurb says it’s “Victorian London”. It’s not clear, however, if this Victorian London coincides with the genuine article, or is in another era per the Epoch’s machinations.
[910] Dating “The Curious Case of Spring-Heeled Jack” (DWM #334-336) - The date “1840” is given.
[911] Eye of Heaven. The date of Stockwood’s first expedition is given (p1).
[912] “A hundred and fifty years” (p222) before Cat’s Cradle: Witch Mark.
[913] All-Consuming Fire
[914] Dating Reckless Engineering (EDA #63) - The date is given as “19 July 1843” (p5).
[915] The Church and the Crown
[916] According to The Tomorrow Windows. The Unquiet Dead, on the other hand, certainly presents itself as the first meeting between them.
[917] The Death of Art
[918] The Haunting of Thomas Brewster suggests that Brewster is about four or five in 1851. Even Brewster is unclear about this, however, as “it’s hard to judge [your age] when you have no birthdays.”
[919] Dating Demon Quest: A Shard of Ice (BBC fourth Doctor audio #2.3) - Tiermann says “the year was 1847”.
[920] No year given, but Eleanor is a child when this happens, and seems middle-aged (actress Joanna Monro was 54 when she played the adult Eleanor) in J&L:
The Man at the End of the Garden.
[921] Dating Nevermore (BF BBC7 #4.3) - The Doctor says his meeting with Poe occurred “three days” prior to the man’s death, although technically, Poe was found delirious on the Baltimore streets on 3rd October, 1849, and died on October 7th.
[922] The Algebra of Ice (p8-11).
[923] FP: The Book of the War. From the original Cwej’s perspective, this happens some time after Benny: Twilight of the Gods.
[924] Fifteen years prior to Other Lives.
[925] “Nine years” before A Town Called Fortune
[926] The Next Doctor
[927] “Ten years” before Serpent Crest: The Broken Crown.
[928] Dating The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (BF #107) - The year is given.
[929] Dating Other Lives (BF #77) - The year is 1851, and the Great Exhibition was held from 1st May to 15th October. The Doctor’s comment that the Exhibition did a lot of business in its “first six months” is therefore an approximation, as it was only open five and a half months total. As the Duke of Wellington claims, he would have been 82 in this story, and he died the following year.
[930] Dating “Claws of the Klathi!” (DWM #136-138) - Derridge says it’s “the twelfth of September, year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-One”.
[931] Enlightenment
[932] The Mahogany Murderers
[933] “Three weeks” before The Next Doctor.
[934] Dating The Next Doctor (X4.14) - An urchin tells the Doctor it’s “Christmas Eve” and “the year of our Lord 1851”, with the action continuing through the night to Christmas Day.
A glaring oddity is that the CyberKing here rampages across London, and destroys patches of it with heavy weaponry. Lake comments that the “events of today will be history, spoken of for centuries to come”, and even though said events are wildly nonhistorical, the Doctor only comments “Funny, that”. The eleventh Doctor later implies in Flesh and Stone that the Cracks in Time ate away at the CyberKing, explaining why it’s not recorded in the history books. (He speculates this, however, before knowing that he’s going to restore everything the Cracks destroyed upon rebooting the universe in The Big Bang; see the Cracks in Time sidebar.) It could equally be the case, however, that the CyberKing event isn’t well remembered because it happened at night (severely limiting the number of people who could have actually seen the CyberKing) in an era without suitable photography to record the proceedings (even had they occurred in the daytime), meaning the resultant damage was attributed to other causes or left as a mystery.
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