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c 1670 - The Impossible Astronaut
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Charles II found the eleventh Doctor nude and hiding under the skirts of Matilda, a woman who had just painted him in that state. The Doctor was imprisoned in the Tower, but flew out of his cell two days later.

w - 1671 - FP: Newtons Sleep
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On behalf of Sir Samuel Morland, Aphra Behn infiltrated a gathering of alchemists and ritualists in Cambridge, as hosted by a man named Salomon. Those present - including Isaac Newton (a.k.a. Jeova Unus Sanctus); representatives of Faction Paradox; and Valentine, a member of the French secret society
le Pouvoir
- had gathered to watch an advanced science demonstration by “the Magus”, Nathaniel Silver. Salomon was actually Dr Alexander Bendo, the head of the Secret Service - he had arranged the gathering to round up the attendees with his soldiers, but largely failed. Little Sister Greenaway’s performance during these events earned her a promotion to Cousin.

The Doctor placed skeletons in the Tower of London, which were found in 1674 and identified as the lost Princes.
 [620]
The eleventh Doctor claimed to know the bar where the Governor of New Amsterdam lost the city in a bet. The Doctor wasn’t present, as he was busy with the “Bronx peace talks”, which he said were more akin to a “barn dance”.
 [621]

Operating on instructions from John Dee, the Society of Horticultural Historians, a.k.a. the Knights of the Arboretum, worked to prevent the last of the imprisoned Enochians from escaping. Christopher Wren, Inigo Jones and William Boreman were members of the group. In 1675, Wren convinced John Flamsteed, the royal astronomer, to move the location for the proposed Greenwich Observatory to thirteen degrees off magnetic north. The Observatory was built over the foundations of Duke Humphrey’s house, further sealing off the Enochian vessel. The Doctor would receive notes that Wren left for him concerning these events in 2009.
 [622]

In 1677, the mathematician John Wallis gave a paper on sympathetic vibration to the Royal Society.
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w - 1678 - FP: Newtons Sleep
 [624]

Dr Alexander Bendo sought to learn more about Faction Paradox and dispatched the spy Aphra Behn to a brothel called the Inferno, where a mysterious woman had appeared out of thin air. This was Thessalia of the Great Houses, who had arrived following the Violent Unknown Event on the planet Zo La Domini. Determining that Thessalia had less value than he had hoped, Bendo shot her. Thessalia’s biosuit automatically “jumped” her to safety along Behn’s timeline, depositing her in 1651. An enraged Behn stabbed Bendo with a biodata needle engineered to erase people from history - henceforth, he would only be remembered as a disguise of John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester.

= Around 1679, on an alternate Earth where Rome never fell, a race of genetically engineered soldiers - the Bestarius - were created but proved uncontrollably violent. Robots were deemed to be far more useful, and around this time the first robot, Vesuvius, was built. Centuries later, by 1979, Rome’s iron legions had conquered the entire galaxy.
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In the late seventeenth century, Professor Chronotis retired to St Cedd’s College, Cambridge.
 [626]
The Eternals kidnapped a seventeenth-century pirate crew.
 [627]
Nikolas Valentine, actually an extra-terrestrial stranded on Earth, received a knighthood in the 1680s.
 [628]
The tenth Doctor and Martha visited Mauritius in 1681.
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w - 1683 - FP: Newtons Sleep
 [630]

Nathaniel Silver, having worked for
le Pouvoir
since the botched Cambridge raid in 1671, stretched the mysterious egg in his possession to create a series of mirrors that displayed possible futures. Cousin Greenaway, in a fit of anger against the babel within Isaac Newton, stabbed Newton with a biodata needle designed to wipe people from history. Silver removed the needle and saved Newton, but enough of a temporal anomaly appeared within Newton’s timeline to net the attention of parties in humanity’s posthuman era. The babel was trapped in Silver’s egg, and killed when the egg compressed into a dark pebble. Greenaway and her fellow Cousins performed rituals to stabilise Newton’s history. On Aphra Behn’s recommendation, Larissa of the Great Houses forged a personal alliance with the Faction.

Vislor Turlough’s great-great-great grandfather was a member of the royal court on Trion, and an ambassador to alien worlds. By the time the Arar-Jecks had fought their way to Trion’s borders, Turlough’s ancestor had negotiated with neutral powers for use of a dimensional vault - a final hiding place for the Trion Queen and her entourage. In future, rumours spoke of the Queen’s “lost treasure horde”, which remained in the vault for safekeeping.
 [631]

1688 (10th-11th December) - The Glorious Revolution
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The second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrived just prior to the Glorious Revolution - the relatively bloodless transfer of power from King James VII to William of Orange - and aided Queen Mary and her son, James Stewart, in fleeing to France as history recorded. They soon met King James VII. Jamie, having fought for James Stewart’s right to the throne in future, persuaded the king to stay and fight rather than fleeing London - the act that would doom his kingship...

(=) A paradoxical timeline was created in which the king became mad with power and vowed to burn those who didn’t convert to Catholicism. The historical alterations cast doubt upon whether Jamie had ever met the Doctor, and so a Celestial Intervention Agency operative circa 1786 intervened...

... enabling Jamie to realise his terrible mistake. Jamie and his friends abducted the king, then ratted him out to the locals. It was believed that the king had abdicated. The Doctor’s party also met the infamous “hanging judge”, George Jeffries, who was captured while trying to escape.

The Doctor met the Baroque composer Henry Purcell.
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The Gore Crow Hotel was built in 1684.
 [634]

In 1685, the Hakolian battle vehicle Jerak arrived on Earth, but failed to find its partner, the Malus, as planned. The scheduled invasion didn’t happen, and the battle vehicle went dormant. Its radiating malevolence ensured that local legends sprang up of an evil spirit named “the Jack i’ the Green”.
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The fourth Doctor claimed to have met Isaac Newton. At first he dropped apples on his head, but then he explained gravity to him over dinner.
 [636]
Newton was furious about the Doctor dropping an apple on his head, as his nose bled for three days.
 [637]
Newton showed the Doctor around Cambridge University.
 [638]
The Doctor visited Hampton Court maze soon after it was planted.
 [639]
The Doctor took Newton to Practas Seven, and it made the man sit in a corner and whimper.
 [640]

w - 1689 (16th April) - FP: Newtons Sleep
 [641]

Aphra Behn was dying, having been poisoned by remedies prescribed by a quack. Nathaniel Silver visited Behn and comforted her on the last day of her life.

The Vondrax assumed the forms of samurai, and killed many in Japan, 1691.
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Goibhnie, a member of the Troifran race, took samples from Earth and created the mystical world of Tír na n-Óg.
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1692 - The Witch Hunters
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The TARDIS landed in Salem, and the first Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan quickly retreated to avoid becoming implicated in the witch trials. Susan, however, wanted to help those who were accused and took the TARDIS back there. She and Ian were soon accused of witchcraft. The Doctor saved his friends, but to preserve history, he persuaded the governor not to pardon the alleged witch Rebecca Nurse, age 71.

Later, the Doctor returned and took Rebecca to 1954. He convinced her that her death would encourage future tolerance, and she agreed to return to her native time and face her historical demise.

An extra-terrestrial was “lost in darkness” for many centuries, but finally fell to Earth and adopted human form. In 1695, she fell in love with Tobias Williams - who decried her as a witch and had her burned at the stake. The shapeshifter survived, and vowed vengeance upon Williams and his descendants. Whenever sons were born to the family, the creature rendered its grandparents immobile with a potion. They were believed dead... and then buried, but remained aware for a hundred years.
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c 1696 - The Smugglers
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A group of pirates led by Captain Samuel Pike of the
Black Albatross
attempted to locate Captain Avery’s treasure in Cornwall, with only a rhyme as a clue to its whereabouts. Avery had died a drunk pauper, and his treasure was said to be cursed. The first Doctor, Ben and Polly became embroiled in efforts to find the treasure. It was found in the local church, and the names in the rhyme appeared on tombs in the crypt. The King’s militia arrived, killing Pike and many of his crew.

Toby Avery’s mother died, two years after he last saw his father.
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1699 (April) - The Curse of the Black Spot
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The pilot of a Skerth spaceship had died when exposed to human bacteria. The ship’s holographic medical system continued on automatic, and took to teleporting injured sailors and pirates into its medical bay. The system manifested as a glowing Siren and appeared through reflected surfaces - shining treasure was an excellent medium for this, and the Siren inspired folklore about gold-laden ships being cursed.

The eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory landed aboard a becalmed pirate ship, the
Fancy
, on which the Siren had apparently disintegrated anyone with even a slight scratch. The Doctor freed the Siren’s patients. Captain Avery and his son Toby took command of the Skerth ship, and left with the crew of the
Fancy
to explore the stars, starting with Sirius.

Calling in a debt, the eleventh Doctor summoned Avery and Toby to help him storm Demon’s Run and rescue Amy.
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The Eighteenth Century

Biochemical warfare wiped out the population of Anima Persis. The ghosts of the dead haunted this geopsychic planet. The Time Lords used the world as a training ground.
 [650]
The Talichre once attacked Anima Persis.
 [651]
Raldonn travelled the universe peacefully for hundreds of years. He would crash on Earth in the nineteen sixties.
 [652]

An alien force arrived in Earth’s dimension, and was separated into a ghostly ectoplasmic form and a disembodied bundle of psychic energy. Henry Deadstone encountered the creature’s psychic aspect and buried it in a pit, but was mentally compelled to feed it children and animals. Gypsies accused Deadstone of “feeding children to the Devil” and hanged him. The creature remained in the pit and artificially extended Deadstone’s life.
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A Vurosis - a proto-molecular parasite from the Actron Pleiades system - fell to Earth as a seed, and germinated beneath a well in the English village of Creighton Mere. It spawned an eighteenth-century legend that a highwayman had lost his gold treasure down the well, and drowned in it while hiding from the Duke of York.
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By the late twentieth century, no documents from before 1700 existed at Boscombe Hall. This was the year before Dr Thomas Borlase was born.
 [655]
Weed creatures were seen in the North Sea during the eighteenth century.
 [656]
The Doctor “ran Taunton for two weeks in the eighteenth century and I’ve never been so bored”.
 [657]

An inter-clan marriage between the Blathereen and the Slitheen resulted in some tan-skinned hybrids.
 [658]
During the eighteenth century, the Ragman inhabited the body of an executed highwayman.
 [659]
The Doctor visited Rio de Janero in 1700.
 [660]
The Uvodni-Malakh War began in the eighteenth century.
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