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1006 - The Book of Kells
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The TARDIS fell down a temporal wormhole to Ireland, diverting the eighth Doctor and Tamsin from their journey to Charisima Maxima - a pleasure world with billion-year-old forests. A new incarnation of the Meddling Monk, with Lucie Miller as his companion, tried and failed to repair his faulty directional unit. As the Monk’s TARDIS dematerialised, it backfired and scorched
The Book of Kells
- ruining its cover, and charring its pages. The Doctor hid the
Book
under some sod, knowing it would be recovered eighty days later.

The Doctor saved Aethelred the Unready from what would have been a fatal fever.
 [277]
An amoral Time Lord used a twenty-fourth century flood controller to turn back the tide for Canute, giving him great influence. The Doctor set history back on course.
 [278]
The Doctor talked philosophy with the ruler of Ghana, King Tenkamenin.
 [279]

Around one thousand years ago, Martin instigated a get-rich-quick scheme that entailed the washed-up actor Prubert Gatridge posing as a god on planets that Martin owned. This seeded “selfish memes” - philosophical concepts that led each world’s populace to destroy themselves. Each genocide lifted the Galactic Heritage Foundation’s development ban, allowing Martin to sell the worlds at fantastic profit.
 [280]

During the building of the Cathedral of St Sophia, a casket fell from the sky. It was believed to contain an angel and was placed in the catacombs.
 [281]
In 1033, Clancy’s Comet was mistaken for the Star of the West, sent to commemorate the millennium of the crucifixion.
 [282]
A monastery was established on the site of Forgill Castle in the eleventh century.
 [283]

1039 (Midwinter) - Hornets’ Nest: A Sting in the Tale
 [284]

The fourth Doctor visited Tilling Abbey in Northumbria to investigate what he suspected was the earliest activity of the Hornet Swarm on Earth. He discovered that the nuns had been besieged by fierce dogs for three months, and that their Mother Superior was a pig that had been possessed by the Queen of the Swarm. The Doctor realised the Queen was trapped because the nuns freely sampled the products of their distillery, and the Hornets couldn’t possess a person if they were drunk. The Doctor left, but only after being bitten by a dog - the new host of the Queen - that had also got inside the TARDIS. The Doctor put the TARDIS into the Vortex, taking the Hornets away from Earth. They would materialise in 1768.

(=) During his time in the Godwins’ court, Grayle was once bishop of all Cornwall. The Doctor defeated Grayle’s plan to stockpile plutonium for the Nimon, and rewrote history to prevent Gralae from making contact with the Nimon in 305 AD.285

Edward the Confessor’s reign was one of the Doctor’s favourite times and places.
 [285]
The Aeolians were wiped out in the Centaurian Catastrophe.
 [286]

1066 (late summer) - The Time Meddler
 [287]

Landing on a beach in Northumbria, the first Doctor, Steven and Vicki learnt that the Monk - a renegade from the Doctor’s own people - was planning to destroy a Viking invasion with futuristic weapons. Harold’s army would be fresh for the Battle of Hastings, and after defeating the Norman invasion, Harold would usher in a new period of peace for Europe. The Doctor foiled the Monk’s plans, and removed the dimensional control from the Monk’s TARDIS, stranding him.

It “took a bit of time” to fix, but the Monk resumed his travels.
 [288]

The eighth Doctor and Mary Shelley met King Harold at the Battle of Hastings.
 [289]
The Shopkeeper implied that he possessed the arrow pulled from the eye of King Harold after the Battle of Hastings, although some said the king wasn’t shot in the eye at all.
 [290]
In 1066, debris from Haley’s Comet damaged a spaceship from the planet Persopolis, causing it to crash to Earth. The components of a powerful Persopolis construction device were separated, and the ship’s occupant, Janxia, went into stasis.
 [291]
Joanna Harris, a future geneticist and vampire, was born.
 [292]

The White Emperor, the first of the Deathless Emperors, came to rule on Draconia. He tyrannically conquered fifty- two worlds and formed an empire that would last a millennia; scribes said that owing to his actions, the suns ran purple with blood. Each successive emperor was designated by a colour, which came to include gold, green, pearl grey, blood purple and dusk blue. As each emperor neared the end of his reign, the Draconian priesthood slowed his metabolic functions and placed him in Imperial Heaven - a tomb orbiting Draconia. The priesthood could then call upon the emperors’ wisdom as needed.
 [293]

Early in his reign, the First Emperor used The Judas Gift - a gauntlet that detected treachery in those who wore it - to determine that one of his nobles, Lord Salak, was a traitor. Salak was executed. As he had duelled left-handed, fighting with one’s left-hand became a mark of shame on Draconia. Only royals were deemed “trustworthy” enough to exercise such a privilege.
 [294]

1098 (31st May to 2nd June) - TimeH: Deus Le Volt
 [295]

The time-travelling Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish investigated mysterious events at siege of Antioch, 1098. Honoré’s actions inadvertently enabled the crusaders to open the city gates, triggering a massacre. Reynald - the former Earl of Marseille, whom the crusaders had branded a traitor - had become the core of the Fendahl, but Honoré and Emily helped to prevent the creature from manifesting. A “warrior preacher” named Peter suspected Reynald’s lance of being the Spear of Longinus - the weapon used to pierce Christ’s side as he was crucified - and used it to rally the crusaders against the Muslims.

The militaristic Argians destroyed all knowledge on many planets, including Venedel, Zerinzar and Athrazar. The Argians were undone by their own arrogance, and, over the course of a millennium, their empire fell apart.
 [296]
Humanoids bearing the Jax - a sentient virus - settled on the planet Saturnia Regna. They built a cathedral, but were killed by indigenous wolves. The virus adopted the wolves as its new hosts and retreated into the cathedral, awaiting the arrival of more humanoids.
 [297]

In 1120, the Pandorica was the prize possession of the Knights Templar.
 [298]
The Treaty of the Marshes was signed at Cadogan Castle in 1123.
 [299]

Two bright green children were seen in Wulpit in Suffolk, and viewed with suspicion by an angry mob. These were actually alien Lampreys.
 [300]
“Smart implants” - devices that could turn those fitted with them into dust - were outlawed under the Hexen-Brock Treaty. The Doctor prevented the assassination of Janakin Brock by a Tamaranian death-squad, who used the implants in a war against the Pashkul.
 [301]

The order of the Knights Templar was founded in 1128.
 [302]
The Canavitchi claimed responsibility for founding the Knights Templar.
 [303]
The Doctor rode with the templars in Palestine. Elsewhere, the Templars recovered the Imagineum, a mirror-like device built by an ancient race of extra-terrestrial alchemists. It could create a dark duplicate of anyone who looked into it.
 [304]

The Doctor saw the completion of Durham Cathedral in 1133. Sir Brian de Fillis built Marsham Castle in Yorkshire in the twelfth century. The knight went mad, believing his wife was haunting him.
 [305]

1139 - The Krillitane Storm
 [306]

The tenth Doctor found that people in medieval Worcester feared the legendary Devil’s Huntsman, who had made a number of people disappear recently. He quickly identified the culprits as the Krillitane. The Doctor met an Ertrari bounty hunter, Emily Parr, who was seeking to capture Lozla Nataniel Henk: the man who had killed her father a month ago. Henk and his associates had captured a giant Krillitane, the Krillitane Storm, and were milking it for its oil. A Krillitane ship arrived, and although the Doctor drove the combating factions away, the Krillitane Storm died. Parr turned Henk in for the bounty, and decided to go to university.

During the twelfth century, the Convent of the Little Sisters of St Gudula was founded with Vivien Fay posing as the Mother Superior.
 [307]
In the same century, the Doctor saw the King of France, Phillippe Auguste, lay the first stone of the Louvre.
 [308]

Genghis Khan

The Doctor delivered Genghis Khan.
 [309]
Susan was familiar with Genghis Khan.
 [310]
The Doctor claimed to have heard Genghis Khan speak.
 [311]
The Master implied that the Doctor
was
Genghis Khan.
 [312]
The hordes of Genghis Khan couldn’t break down the TARDIS doors.
 [313]
The Doctor suspected that Genghis Khan told him that villains liked to keep record of their villainy.
 [314]

Around 1168, the Aztecs left their original home of Aztlan and became nomads. They took a holy relic, the Xiuhcoatl, with them.
 [315]
The other end of the time corridor formed by the timelash was in 1179 AD.
 [316]
The Borad was disgorged from the timelash and quickly killed by operatives of the Celestis, the investigators One and Two.
 [317]
In 1190, Stefan, a Crusader, lost a game to the Celestial Toymaker and became his agent.
 [318]

c 1190 - The Crusade
 [319]

The first Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki saved Richard the Lionheart from an ambush, and became embroiled in court politics. Richard planned to marry his sister Joanna to the brother of Saladin, the Saracen ruler, but Joanna refused. The Doctor was mistaken for a sorcerer and the TARDIS crew narrowly escaped.

Richard the Lionhearted tutored the Doctor in use of the broadsword.
 [320]

c 1191 - Krynoids: The Green Man
 [321]

The Earl of Godfrey and his supporters dispatched two Krynoids that hatched in the English woods.

The Middle Ages was the native time of Justin, a knight who would help the fifth Doctor fight Melanicus - and would later be canonised.
 [322]
Hubert, the earl of Mummerset, died in Palestine while serving with King Richard. A hapless herbalist’s apothecary took his place, and spent seven years in a Saracen prison before escaping.
 [323]
K9 met the real Robin Hood.
 [324]

The village of Stockbridge was named after a bridge over the river Stock, which dated back to medieval times.
 [325]
The Lokhus, a creature from the universe after ours, fell to Stockbridge and went into a chrysalis stage.
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1199 - Castle of Fear
 [327]

The Rutan Empire was withdrawing from Mutter’s Spiral. Two Rutans took up residence in Stockbridge Castle in Mummersetshire, and began cloning experiments, hoping to clone Rutans in human form for use as cannon fodder. The fifth Doctor and Nyssa defeated the Rutans, a.k.a. “the demons of Stockbridge Castle”, nine months later. One Rutan clone, Osbert, survived; his offspring in Stockbridge had some Rutan inheritance, but this became more diluted with each generation.

These events influenced the names of local establishments such as the Green Dragon Inn and the Turk’s Head, and originated the legend of St. George - in reality the apothecary masquerading as the earl of Mummerset - besting a dragon. Future residents of Stockbridge remembered the Rutans’ defeat - and the Doctor’s role in it - as both a hereditary memory and a mummery performance.

The alien Berserkers were active on Earth in the thirteenth century.
 [328]
Whitaker’s Timescoop accidentally kidnapped a peasant from the Middle Ages.
 [329]
Scaroth possibly posed as a Crusader.
 [330]
Around 1205, a man was boiled in oil for the entertainment of King John.
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