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William Shakespeare, a.k.a. Mr Seyton, escaped imprisonment and demanded that the Doctor take Richard III to stand trial in Queen Elizabeth’s era. Much calamity ensued, and after a brief visit to 1597, the TARDIS arrived at the Battle of Bosworth Field. Shakespeare was forcibly hauled out of the TARDIS by a sixty-fourth century publishing robot that eventually exploded. Erimem had broken Shakespeare’s arm, and a laser pistol wound had singed his foot and given him a limp, so Shakespeare was mistaken for the king. He was killed, blubbing like a girl, after scrambling up a tree.

The Doctor relocated Richard III’s nieces, Susan and Judith, to join their uncle in 1597.

The Canavitchi helped guide the Spanish Inquisition.
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Agonal, an immortal who gained strength from suffering, fed on its fear and death.
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The Doctor was present during the Spanish Inquisition.
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The earliest parts of Chase Mansion were built during the Wars of the Roses.
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1485 - Sometime Never
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An Agent of the Council of Eight kidnapped the two nephews of Richard III to prevent their having an impact on history. The eighth Doctor and Trix later rescued the boys, and took them to the early twenty-first century.

1487 - The Left-Handed Hummingbird
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In the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, the god Huitzilopochtli’s taste for blood grew every year. By 1487, his priests demanded twenty thousand sacrifices. These fed the psychic Huitzilin - a human mutated by the Xiuhcoatl, an Exxilon device that leaked radiation. Huitzilin used his powers to remain alive, and used the Xiuhcoatl to make his people worship him. For centuries, he would visit the most violent places in human history, feeding off the carnage of such events. He would become known as the Blue.

In the late fifteenth century, the Doctor visited China.
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He believed the best Chinese takeaway came from the Ming dynasty.
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The Doctor encountered Torquemada in Toledo, where an
auto-da-fé
didn’t go as planned, and “mini-Beelzebubs” hauled Torquemada from his bed.
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The Doctor met Christopher Columbus.
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He travelled on the
Santa Maria
, but Columbus refused his suggestion of plotting courses with an orange and a biro.
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The Doctor told Columbus that there was more to travelling than going from A to B.
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1492 - The Masque of Mandragora
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The fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane accidentally brought the Mandragora Helix to Renaissance Italy, where it made contact with the Brotherhood of Demnos cult. The Doctor drained and dissipated the Helix’s energy before it could plunge Earth into an age of superstition and fear.

What remained of the Helix seeped into the ground and water around San Martino. The people there became endowed with traces of Helix energy - by 2009, the Helix would be able to control their descendants. In the centuries to come, San Martino would become uninhabited and lost to history.
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Following the Mandragora incident, Duke Giuliano formed the Orphans of the Future: a secret society dedicated to helping mankind. In the centuries to come, Giuliano’s written account of the Mandragora affair became known as
The Book of Tomorrows
, and was regarded as a work of prophecy. The Orphans eventually split into two camps - the White Chapter and the Crimson Chapter - based upon their interpretation of
The Book
, particularly its prediction that an “alien intelligence” would return to Earth in half a millennia. The White Chapter believed that the returning aliens would take humanity away to a better life; the Crimson Chapter thought the aliens wanted to eradicate mankind.
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= The sixth Doctor visited the planet Yestobahl in 1494.
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The Doctor was present when Torquemada died in Avila - an event that involved the arrival of the personification of Death, complete with scythe.
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The Doctor was with Vasco da Gama when he sailed into the harbour of Zanzibar in 1499.
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The Cylox were immensely powerful psionics and a very long-lived species, being the equivalent of adolescents after surviving for millennia. Two of the Cylox, Lai-Ma and his brother Tko-Ma, had spent several millennia annihilating planets in another dimension. Around the late fifteenth century, an intergalactic court exiled them to a pocket realm located on Earth. The brothers later loosed their shackles and agreed to see who could destroy Earth the fastest. The Ini-Ma, the brothers’ jailor of sorts, endowed its essence into female members of the bloodline that would produce Loretta van Cheaden.
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The painter Hieronymus Bosch was a friend of the Doctor, who posed for one of Bosch’s triptychs:
The Garden of Earthly Delights
. The Doctor spent hours lying against a table, and Bosch went mad if he so much as twitched.
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Guieseppe di Cattivo, a contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci, was known in fifteenth century Florence as the Artist of Nightmares.
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The Sixteenth Century

c 1500 - The Ghosts of N-Space
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Around the turn of the sixteenth century, the third Doctor and Sarah were briefly seen as ghosts.

During the sixteenth century, the Ancient Order of St Peter existed to fight vampires.
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Stattenheim and Waldorf created working plans for a TARDIS during the sixteenth century.
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Jack Harkness visited a dying galaxy and found a sole survivor. He relocated it to Earth, where it came to inspire myths about the shapeshifting Selkie.
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Veec-Elic-Savareen-Jal-9 became a fugitive after speaking out against the warmongering Hive Council on Jal Paloor. Darac-Poul-Caparrel-Jal-7 was dispatched to capture him.
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The Doctor visited Venice in the sixteenth century.
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Legends spoke of Hetocumtek as a vicious warrior god who descended from the heavens, and tried to conquer the peoples of the Great Plains. The most powerful medicine men of the Mojave tribe trapped Hetocumtek in a totem pole that was buried in the Mojave Desert. It was said that if ever the totem fell back into the hand of men, Hetocumtek would be freed.
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A young Prince Henry found a quill made from a temporal phoenix feather. It could rewrite time - so Henry had his Scrivener use the quill to kill his brother, Arthur the Prince of Wales. This paved the way for him to become King Henry VIII.
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Leonardo da Vinci

Both the Monk and Scaroth claimed credit for inspiring Leonardo to consider building a flying machine.
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The Doctor told da Vinci that coleopters were more trouble than they were worth.
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The Doctor visited Leonardo while he was painting the Mona Lisa, “a dreadful woman with no eyebrows who wouldn’t sit still”.
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The model who sat for the Mona Lisa was “a dreary Italian housewife who laughed like a camel and farted like a donkey”. Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa using oils he blagged from his neighbour, Guieseppe di Cattivo, and had been made from minerals found in a rock that fell from space.
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Leonardo had a cold.
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Leonardo convinced the Doctor to take him back to the time of Christ, and following this journey produced a “marvellous adoration painting”... that he didn’t finish. The Doctor ended up owning some of Leo’s designs, and gifted them to his great-grandson Alex, to further the boy’s interest in architecture.
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The Doctor took Leonardo to attend the wedding of Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane; Leonardo designed their wedding cake.
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1505 - City of Death
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Captain Tancredi, one of the splinters of Scaroth the Jagaroth, kept Leonardo a virtual prisoner and ordered him to begin making six additional copies of the Mona Lisa. Scaroth hoped to sell them at great profit to fund his time experiments in 1979. The fourth Doctor arrived, and wrote “This is a Fake” in felt-tip on many of Leonardo’s blank canvasses. Leonardo painted the copies over them.

Although nobody took notice of Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches of helicopters or tanks at the time, his drawings would “seed” the idea for such inventions, and help to facilitate their creation in future.
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Guieseppe di Cattivo painted a self-portrait in 1509. He also painted his masterpiece,
The Abomination
, but discovered that nobody could look upon it without losing their sanity. He locked
The Abomination
in a special case made from hangman’s gallows, and the next morning was found in his Florence apartments, completely insane.
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The Doctor watched Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel, and told him that if heights frightened him, he shouldn’t have accepted the commission.
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Michelangelo drew the sixth Doctor.
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The tenth Doctor learned how to sculpt from Michelangelo.
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The Monk owned a cupid that Michelangelo had sculpted.
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The Baobhan Empire fell in a galactic war, and the Baobhan Sith were all but exterminated. A spaceship with a few surviving Baobhan females crashed in Yorkshire, where the ship projected a force field that kept the sun at bay for seventy days. The Baobhan feasted upon the locals until a Sisterhood killed them. A single Baobhan survived, trapped within a pile of rocks that became known as Lucifer’s Tombstone. The village of Thornton Rising grew up around it.
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In 1514, a Sontaran ship crashed near Mount Omei in China. A monk, Yueh Kuang, investigated the starfall. The Sontarans taught him martial arts for three months. He then returned to share his new knowledge with his fellow monks, deposed Abbot Hsiang and took over as Abbot.
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Guieseppe di Cattivo died in 1518 in a lunatic asylum.
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The Doctor thinks he invented the expression “mind like a sieve”.
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Cortez landed in South America.
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A fragment from the Omnim planet fell to Earth and was carved into an Aztec stone knife of sacrifice. The knife was included in the plundered treasure aboard the Spanish ship
Santa Isabella
, but the crew surrendered the knife to English raiders. The hilt was taken to Madrid.
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The Doctor met the magician Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Netteshiem, and thought him an example of how dark powers destroyed great talent.
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1522 (summer) - “Dragon’s Claw”
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For years, Japanese pirates attacked ports along the coast of the East China Sea. One group was repelled by the Shaolin monks of Mount Omei. Abbot Yueh Kuang, their leader, had an advanced energy weapon. The fourth Doctor, Sharon and K9 arrived and found people killed by the gun. They were captured by the monks and taken four hundred miles to their monastery, where the Doctor discovered they’d been taught martial arts by the mysterious “eighteen bronze men”. The Doctor snuck into the Hall of the Eighteen Bronze Men and survived a series of death traps to discover a group of Sontarans. The aliens were planting hypnotic commands in the monks, creating a deadly fighting force. The Doctor discovered their crashed ship, and learned its transmitter was damaged. The Sontarans needed a rock crystal to repair it, and only the Emperor had one large enough. The Doctor returned to the monastery, and one of the monks, Chang, slew the Sontarans in a hypnotic killing frenzy.

The Trib Museum was established in 1528. Its treasures would include fifteenth-century longbows from Earth.
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Henry VIII

On one of their earliest visits to Earth, the first Doctor and Susan met Henry VIII, who sent them to the Tower after the Doctor threw a parson’s nose back at the King. The TARDIS had landed in the Tower, and this enabled the Doctor and Susan to make good their escape.
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The Doctor had six wedding invitations from Henry VIII.
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An early incarnation of Iris Wildthyme met Henry VIII and two of his wives - and a good time was had by all.
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Iris and Panda hobnobbed at Hampton Court, then left for the future to avoid being beheaded.
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