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(=) 1804 - The Man in the Velvet Mask
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The first Doctor and Dodo arrived on Earth, which had been remade ten years ago by a world-machine. The dwarf Minski, in control of the remade France, attempted to start a war between France, Britain and America that would spread a virus. Anyone infected would have fallen under Minski’s control. Minski’s plan fell to ruin and he was killed. Dodo acquired Minski’s virus while sleeping with an actor named Dalville, but the virus was harmless without its creator. The Doctor and the real Marquis de Sade sabotaged the world-machine, and the machine’s creators returned Earth to N-Space, erasing this history.

c 1805 (November) - The Rising Night
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In Thornton Rising, Yorkshire, the last of the Baobhan Sith was freed from its cairn. Its spaceship projected a force field that trapped the locals within, and kept the sun at bay. Three weeks later, the tenth Doctor confronted the Baobhan as it infected other women with its taint and started slaughtering the men of the town. The Doctor deactivated the force field, slaying those with Baobhan DNA via exposure to ultraviolet. A tainted young woman named Charity survived, and the Doctor - possibly after a few side-adventures with her - relocated Charity to a planet where the sun never rose.

Events in Thornton Rising were attributed to the Devil’s work, and that the village was removed from all the maps of the kingdom, as if it had never existed.

1805 - TimeH: The Clockwork Woman
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The time travellers Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish helped a clockwork woman named Dove - the creation of Sir Edward Fanshawe, a genius builder - to become self-actualised. Dove was influenced by the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, and pledged to become a writer who advocated gender equality.

Nelson “was a personal friend” of the Doctor.
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The Doctor breakfasted with Nelson in 1805, the day before Nelson’s final battle with Napoleon at Trafalgar.
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The Doctor was “instrumental” at Trafalgar.
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His sextant calculated the position of Napoleon’s fleet.
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1805 (12th September) - World Game
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The second Doctor and Serena narrowly saved Wellington and Nelson when Valmont, one of the immortal Players, attempted to kill them with a bomb.

The Doctor and Serena travelled to Paris to discover more about the Players’ plans. They saved Napoleon from assassination, and learned that another Player, the Countess, was also in Paris. The Doctor learned that Napoleon had a secret weapon - a submarine - and in part survived a vampire assassin because of all the garlic he’d been eating since arriving in France. The Countess had designed the submarine’s omega drive propulsion system, and had tasked a Raston Warrior Robot to serve as a guard. When this vanished, the Doctor deduced that someone on Gallifrey had sent the Robot and the vampire. The Doctor and Serena sabotaged the submarine, but with no more leads to the Players’ grand plan, they departed for 1815.

An original painting by Turner would come to adorn Irving Braxiatel’s study.
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(=) 1806 - Seasons of Fear
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The eighth Doctor and Charley confronted the long-lived Grayle once again. This time, Grayle built a transmat and brought his masters, the Nimon, to Earth. The Doctor engineered a time corridor that returned the Nimon to Britain in 305 BC.

Albert Tiermann was the son of a successful writer, but had no imagination of his own. As part of his plan to trap the Doctor, the Demon working for the Hornets granted Tiermann an imagination in return for implanting a shard of ice in his heart. The Demon also created a hotel in the Murgin Pass.
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Golems were unthinking lifeforms/killing machines crafted from virtually indestructible aluminosilicate; many civilised worlds and Article 12 of the Galactic Code outlawed them. Experiments were undertaken to create intelligent Golems that could integrate themselves into a society. A humanoid-looking boy and girl Golem were birthed, but one of their creators had a crisis of conscience and sent them away in a spaceship.

In the quiet German town of Orlok, Baron Teufel had systematically dismembered fourteen people as part of experiments on the reanimation of human tissue using electricity - the savage deaths were attributed to the fabled “Beast of Orlok”. The spaceship with the young Golems arrived in the Black Forest near Orlok, just as the Baron attempted to make a local, Frau Tod, his fifteenth victim. She permanently blinded the Baron and claimed the Golems as her own children, naming them Hans and Greta. The Baron left town.
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The Tabbalac were an orange-skinned, aggressive species who could innately sense lies by reading body language, and were skilled at matter transmission. One Tabbalac - a technical genius who feared that his government would use his talents for killing - adopted the name “Brooks” and escaped his homeworld by building a casino boat, The High Straights, that teleported from planet to planet. The casino served an elite clientele, and another of Brooks’ inventions, the reality-warping High Stakes table, enabled patrons to bet such abstract commodities as their youth, skills, emotions and their very history.
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The Cup of Aethelstan was put on display in the International Gallery in London.
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One of the surviving Gorgons possessed an Abbess.
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Joseph Sundvig was born on 8th April, 1809.
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The Doctor met Byron at the Parthenon, and had an episode with him that involved five oranges, a purple handkerchief and a misplaced nostrum. He also met Percy Shelley.
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A squad of Parisian soldiers were lost in the Catacombs in 1810. They found themselves in 2000.
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In 1811, the poet William Blake vanished from his home and met the Doctor.
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The Doctor also met William Blake at home once.
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William Blake was a personal friend of the fourth Doctor.
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The Doctor said that John Pond, the Astronomer Royal, was a “lovely chap” who once told him a filthy joke.
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The Doctor was with a British rifle brigade when he met Sir Arthur Wellesley. He was a prisoner of the French at Salamanca in 1812.
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Also in 1812, a battlefield from Napoleon’s Russian campaign was kidnapped by the War Lords.
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The Doctor met Napoleon and told him that an army marches on its stomach.
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The Doctor kept a bottle that Napoleon threw at him. He later drank it in 2011 with Amy, Rory and River Song on the shore of Lake Silencio.
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In 1812, the alien criminal “Mary” arrived on Earth. She would later claim to hail from a savage, repressive world that punished dissent with death. The beings there communicated with pendants that granted telepathy. Mary killed the guard escorting her, and hosted herself within a passing young woman.
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1812 - Emotional Chemistry
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The Magellans were essentially living stars. One such creature broke a rule among its kind by giving birth; its child was named Aphrodite. The Doctor acted as defence council when the Magellan was put on trial. The Magellan’s people ruled to spilt the creature in half and place each part in separate time zones on Earth. The emotional side of the Magellan became the female Dusha, and by the early nineteenth century had been adopted by Count Yuri Vishenkov. The Magellan’s intellectual half became Lord General Razum Kinzhal, a strategist around the year 5000. Aphrodite was contained and given the extra-dimensional locale of Paraiso as her home.

Living as a Russian noblewoman, Dusha Vishenkov had the ability to alter probability and affected her “sister” Natasha Vishenkov. Natasha’s descendants would look virtually identical for millennia to come, and be predisposed to good luck. Dusha’s influence also turned the Vishenkov family’s possessions into empathic capacitors that amplified the emotions of those nearby. One such item, a painting, would be on display in the Kremlin Museum in 2024 and start a fire there.

The eighth Doctor helped Dusha reunite with her lover, Kinzhal, in the year 5000.

(=) 1812 - “The Time of My Life”
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The tenth Doctor and Donna found that time had been interfered with, and that Napoleon’s troops were attacking Cossacks with impulse weapons.

Illeana (later Illeana de Santos) fled with her wealthy merchant father from Smolensk, but bandits killed her father. The werewolf Stubbe turned her into a werewolf and bound her to him for a century or two.
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1812 (summer to 18th October) - Mother Russia
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The first Doctor, Steven and Dodo spent some time at the home of Count Gregori Nikitin, where the Doctor tutored Nikitin’s son. A spaceship carrying an infiltration unit - one designed to adopt the form of an enemy’s leaders to assassinate them - crashed to Earth and impersonated the Doctor just prior to Napoleon’s invasion of Russia. The disguised unit served as an advisor to Napoleon once he’d captured Moscow. The public set fire to the city rather than surrender it - Napoleon withdrew, and a Russian mob killed the infiltration unit.

While on the Russian front, Napoleon had coffee with Iris Wildthyme.
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The Celestial Toymaker beat Napoleon at Risk.
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c 1813 - The Mark of the Rani
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The Rani was present during the Industrial Revolution, extracting a chemical from human brains. Her project was interrupted by the arrival, and rivalry, of the Master and the sixth Doctor. The Master attempted to disrupt human history as the greatest scientific minds of the era converged on Killingworth. The Doctor trapped the two renegades in the Rani’s TARDIS and banished them from Earth.

1814 (February) - Frostfire
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The first Doctor, Steven and Vicki arrived at the last-ever frost fair - literally a fair situated upon ice - on the River Thames. Captain McClavity owned a Collection of Curiosities there, as well as a phoenix egg that he had acquired from the Medina in Tunis. The travellers encountered Jane Austen, much to the Doctor’s delight, as he had read all of her novels and thought them very witty. Soon afterwards, McClavity was murdered and the phoenix egg stolen.

The phoenix inside the egg had been responsible for the destruction of a thousand worlds, and now sought to be reborn on Earth. Its essence possessed Georgina Mallard, whose husband - Sir Joseph Mallard - worked for the Royal Mint. The phoenix hoped to use the Mint’s metal-melting furnace as a hatchery for itself, but Austen assisted the Doctor’s group in turning down the heat. The newly hatched phoenix chick died, but a cinder from the fire - endowed with a small piece of the phoenix’s being - remained in Vicki. She only learned of its presence after she left the Doctor’s company and became Lady Cressida.

Iris and Jane Austen visited the Moulin Rouge - not the one in Paris, but a space station near Betelgeuse.
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The Doctor helped River Song celebrate her birthday on a frozen Thames in 1814, at the last of the great frost fairs. Entertainment was provided by Stevie Wonder, who didn’t realise the Doctor had brought him back in time.
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1815 (June) - World Game
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Using psychic paper, the second Doctor gatecrashed a ball being held by Wellington, and warned him of the Players’ plans. Serena died saving Wellington from an assassination attempt.

The Doctor impersonated Napoleon in order to infiltrate the French lines at Waterloo and divert reinforcements arranged by the Players. History was returned to its normal course and the Players - worried about further intervention from the Time Lords - suspended their games.

Major General Fergus Lethbridge-Stewart fought in the Battle of Waterloo.
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Oliver Blazington, later a big game hunter, was a rifleman who fought alongside the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo.
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The Doctor met Wellington after the conflict.
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(=) 1815 (18th November) - World Game
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