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Aliens emerged from a null dimension and into London in 1346. They took control of human bodies, which were vulnerable to a plague that the aliens knew would arrive in two years. They discovered that philosopher Roger Bacon wrote of a possible cure for the plague, and sent one alien back several decades to ensure Bacon’s research succeeded. The alien’s host in that era, Brother Thomas, survived and felt drawn to the aliens in 1346, but they failed to heed his warnings about the futility of their efforts.
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Cardogan Castle suffered a large outbreak of the Black Death shortly before the plague’s end.
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The black diamond of Ernfield, a cursed gem, was said to have been stolen from a mid-fourteenth century temple.
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c 1350 - TimeH: Kitsune
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While investigating the history of mischievous fox-spirits - the kitsune - Emily Blandish briefly visited medieval Japan.

Guillaume de Beaujeu, age 62, went off to war in 1354 and didn’t return. The finger of John the Baptist remained at the Castle of Arginy.
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The Doctor was at the university of Prague when it opened.
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On the planet Skaro, a small, squat blue-skinned warlike race had evolved... the Daleks.
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c 1360 (November) - The Art of War
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A Krashok warship materialised several miles from London, having fled into the past using a Dalek temporal shift device. The tenth Doctor and his companion, Gisella, pursued the Krashoks to prevent their activating the fake Eternity Crystal in their possession - an act that could have triggered an explosion large enough to destroy Earth. The Doctor incapacitated the Krashoks with sonic waves, and medieval knights slew many of them. The surviving Krashoks returned to the future with both the real Crystal and Gisella, and the Doctor followed them.

The Canavitchi faked the Turin Shroud in an attempt to slow man’s progress.
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The Phiadoran Clan Matriarchy came to power in the Phiadoran Directorate. They ruthlessly weeded out their political opponents.
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Cartophilius lived in Italy under the name John Buttadaeus.
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The Doctor met Chaucer in 1388 and was given a copy of
The Doctour of Science’s Tale
.
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The Doctor drank ale with Chaucer in Southwark.
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Around this time, the Doctor acquired his ticket to the Library of St John the Beheaded.
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The Renaissance

The Daemons inspired the Renaissance.
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The cult named Sodality achieved limited time travel through a book linked to the Daemons, and used conventional and psionic science to alter the course of human development. Select individuals were born as time-channellers (humans with the innate ability to travel through time) or time-sensitives (empathic humans who served as the channellers’ navigators during time-jumps). Through such individuals, Sodality hoped to gain command of time and space travel.
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By the end of the fourteenth century, wire-drawing machinery had been developed.
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Constantinople was renamed Istanbul.
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The Doctor was present at the Battle of Agincourt.
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The Doctor assisted the great-great-great grandfather of the Duke of Medici in some bother with the Borgias.
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A renegade Time Lady, also a friend of the Doctor, founded a restaurant on Earth during the time of the Hapsburgs.
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Upon the murder of his father, Vlad III took the name “Dracula” - which means “son of the dragon”.
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Legends about a “beast” which terrorized the German town of Orlok circulated in the Middle Ages.
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The planets of the Radzera system fell into a pattern of constant war.
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From the time he was knee high, Richard III was a subject of huge interest to alien time tourists and academics. Random time travellers would repeatedly show up to question Richard about the future murder of his nephews - one of history’s greatest mysteries - and had strong views about whether he should kill the boys or not. This puzzled Richard, who at around age 12 had no intention of doing anything of the sort. By accident, Richard discovered that most of the travellers were afraid of someone called “the Doctor”, and he continually dropped the Doctor’s name as a means of making the visitors leave.
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Many of those who died in the Nor’ Loch, Edinburgh, from the fifteenth century onwards were likely to be resurrected by the Onk Ndell Kith in 1759.
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An unknown race established itself on the planet Helhine, then fell to ruin.
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w - Sutekh sent hordes of Mal’akh to fifteenth century Earth, where they became involved in the conflict between the European Christians and the Ottoman Turks. He withdrew his forces after the Great Houses, to protect their involvement in this crucible of history, signed a treaty with the Osirian Court. Ellainya of the Great Houses, a.k.a. Merytra, was bound by blood into Sutekh’s service.
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The Doctor tripped the Word Lord’s CORDIS on the lost twenty-seventh letter of the English alphabet, which made him crash into the entire alphabet, and caused the Great Vowel Shift.
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c 1454 - The Aztecs
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The Aztec priest Yetaxa died and was entombed around 1430. When the first Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan emerged from Yetaxa’s sealed tomb, Barbara was taken for the reincarnation of Yetaxa. She attempted to use her “divine” power to end the Aztec practice of human sacrifice, knowing it would horrify the European conquerors in future, and hoped this would save the Aztec civilisation from the Spanish. Her efforts failed.

The tenth Doctor and Martha had a drink of chocolate in Aztec times.
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They also visited the Italian Renaissance.
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In the mid-fifteenth century, Scaroth gave mankind the printing press, although he kept a number of Gutenberg Bibles for himself. It was possibly this splinter of Scaroth that acquired a Ming vase.
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During the first Easter of his reign, Vlad III invited two hundred boyars to his banqueting hall - and afterwards had them slaughtered for the roles they played in the deaths of his father and brother.
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The Wandering Jew once shared a bottle of Tokay with Vlad Tepes, who was unable to end the man’s immortal life.
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The Varaxil Hegemony developed a science based upon Odic power, an energy associated with the supernatural. They became such despised outcasts on so many worlds, they renounced their technology and began hunting down any beings who could innately channel Odic energy, imprisoning them on Varix Beta.
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1462 (17th June to July) - Son of the Dragon
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Turkish forces led by Sultan Mehmed II invaded Wallachia, part of what would later become Romania. Prince Vlad III (a.k.a. Vlad the Impaler, a.k.a. Dracula) ruled Wallachia and ravaged his people’s own crops, livestock and water supplies to stop his enemies making use of them.

The fifth Doctor, Peri and Erimem arrived during this conflict, and Erimem wound up saving Dracula’s life. Dracula welcomed her as a guest at his palace, Poienari Castle. Events led to the Doctor being captured and Peri earning a death sentence, whereupon Erimem bargained with Dracula - in exchange for letting her friends go, she’d become his wife. The Turks surrounded Poienari, and the King of Hungary withdrew his support from Dracula. Erimem was released from her promise, and Dracula fled to Transylvania. Radu, Dracula’s brother, became the head of Wallachia.

A legend concerning these events claimed that an archer (actually the Doctor) had warned Dracula of the impending siege of Poienari. It was further said that Dracula’s first wife threw herself to her death (a misinterpretation of Dracula briefly dangling Peri off the Poienari battlements), and the portion of the Arges River marking this point became known as Raul Doamenei, “the princess’ river”. The Doctor stole Radu’s journal to keep the name of Dracula’s “first wife” - even though he and Erimem hadn’t formally married - a secret.

The “sons” of King Edward IV - who were historically fated to die in the Tower of London - were actually born as girls. Edward feared this would throw the line of royal succession into doubt, and spark decades of fighting amongst the power-crazed nobility. He therefore announced that the girls were in fact boys: the future Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury.
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In 1478, George, the Duke of Clarence, was convicted of treason against his brother, King Edward IV. He was slated for execution, but their other brother, Richard of Gloucester, quietly rescued him. George was believed dead and lived in disguise as Clarrie, the barkeep of The Kingmaker tavern.
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In 1479, a wall was built around the parish of St. James - which would one day be known as Cardiff - to keep out plague victims. A little girl named Faith died, but a priest brought her back to life with a resurrection gauntlet. Her revival enabled an aspect of Death to manifest in St. James - its hold on Earth would have solidified had it killed thirteen people, but it had only murdered twelve when Faith stopped it. The gauntlet was hidden within St. Mary’s Church.
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A “Northern chap with big ears” left a pair of messages for Peri and Erimem at The Kingmaker tavern on Fleet Street in London. They would receive the notes in 1483.
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The year 1482 was full of temporal glitches, making it difficult for the TARDIS to land there.
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1483 (April to October) - The Kingmaker
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The wayward TARDIS deposited Peri and Erimem in Stony Stratford, 1483. William Shakespeare, having stowed aboard from 1597, snuck out of the Ship. Shakespeare presented himself to Richard III as “Mr Seyton”, someone from the future who advocated that Richard should murder his nephews.

King Edward IV died, so Richard escorted the new monarch - his nephew, King Edward V - back to London. Along the way, Richard discovered that his nephews were female. He rounded up anyone who might know this secret, and executed Hastings, a friend of the old king. Three days after Richard’s discovery, Peri and Erimem arrived at The Kingmaker tavern and - based upon the Doctor’s messages - realised they were doomed to stay in 1483 for a time. They worked as waitresses there for about six months.

Commemorative mugs, plates and tea towels were made in anticipation of Edward V’s coronation on 24th June, but the event didn’t occur. Parliament declared Edward and his “brother” Richard illegitimate; their uncle had Mr Seyton conduct a press conference on this development with the finest gossips in England, including the
Lincolnshire Tattletale
and the
Wessex Busybody
. Richard was subsequently crowned as Richard III.

The now-illegitimate Princes were relocated to the Tower of London - the king invited Peri and Erimem to serve as their handmaidens. Henry Stafford, the Second Duke of Buckingham, sought to bring the Woodville family into conflict with the king as a means of claiming the throne for himself. He hoped to trigger this by convincing Peri and Erimem to poison the “boys”, but the king discovered the plot and threw Stafford in prison.

Richard III had Peri and Erimem double as the Princes while the genuine article went to work as waitresses with their uncle Clarrie at The Kingmaker. Peri and Erimem routinely appeared in public as the Princes, seen from afar playing tennis or exercising. The king got fed up with Shakespeare/Seyton and had him tortured, learning much about the web of time. Peri and Erimem spent the next two years masquerading as the Princes, but the public didn’t take much notice of the “lads”. History would record that the Princes were last seen in 1484.

Pointy beards were all the rage in France, and considered a fashion statement for the 1480s (as distinguished from the large, open-necked beards of the 70s).

1485 (August) - The Kingmaker
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The fifth Doctor, Peri and Erimem arrived from 1597, wanting to investigate the death of Richard III’s nephews. But while the Doctor departed to patronize The Kingmaker tavern, the TARDIS - telepathically resonating with the Doctor’s recent boozing - hiccupped and slipped back to 1483 with Peri and Erimem aboard.

Henry Stafford was tortured to death by Sir James Tyrell, the king’s Royal High Concussor. The barkeep Clarrie - formerly George, the Duke of Clarence - was identified and died in a chase, drowning in the Thames. In future, the play
Richard III
would spread the belief that he had drowned in a vat of Malmsey wine.