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Threshold began developing an energy wave, but this would take over three thousand years to perfect. The group came into conflict with the seventh and eighth Doctors; events between them climaxed on the moon in the fifty-third century.
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The Doctor met Afrikaaners during the Boer War and was at the battle of Roarke’s Drift.
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1880 - Evolution
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Percival Ross witnessed a Rutan scoutship crashing in Limehouse, and recovered a flask of Rutan healing salve from the wreckage. The alien gel had a miraculous healing effect on humans, but it also could merge human and animal genetic material, as Ross discovered when a boy he was treating became a ferocious dog-like creature. Ross interested the industrialist Breckingridge, the owner of a vast cable factory in the town of Bodhan, in the creation of a race of hybrid dolphin-men. Ross kidnapped fifteen children, and conducted experiments that turned them into mer-children.

Breckingridge died when one of his mutated guard dogs turned on him; Ross drowned. The fourth Doctor relocated the mer-children to a water planet in the Andromeda galaxy. A young Arthur Conan Doyle witnessed the happenings on Dartmoor, and his chance encounter with the Doctor inspired two of his most famous characters: Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger. An even younger Rudyard Kipling, future author of
The Jungle Book
, also witnessed the events surrounding the closure of Breckingridge’s factory.

The Doctor “borrowed” Conan Doyle’s stethoscope and kept meaning to return it.
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The Doctor claimed to have studied medicine under Bell in Edinburgh.
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The Doctor met Geronimo.
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c 1880 - “The Greatest Gamble”
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Gaylord Lefevre, a gambler on a Mississippi riverboat, played the Celestial Toymaker and lost, like so many before him.

On the instructions of Bilis Manger, Gideon ap Tarri recorded the Abaddon/Pwccm battle that he’d witnessed into his diary on 12th June, 1880. On 18th September, 1881, an operative from Torchwood London approached ap Tarri about the document. Ap Tarri fled to prevent it falling into Torchwood’s hands, but he died in the same year, and Torchwood exhumed his grave to obtain the item.
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Torchwood Cardiff was equipped with cryogenics in the Victorian era.
 [1070]

1881 (25th-26th October) - The Gunfighters
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The first Doctor, Steven and Dodo landed at Tombstone shortly before the Gunfight at the OK Corral. As the Doctor searched for a dentist, the gunman Johnny Ringo found one - Doc Holliday - who he’d been tracking for two years. Marshall Wyatt Earp and his allies killed Ringo and some members of the renegade Clanton family.

w - 1882 (autumn) to 1883 (26th August) - FP: Erasing Sherlock
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The time traveller Gillian Petra became a maid in Sherlock Holmes’ household to observe him for her doctoral thesis. She was unaware that her benefactor, Jimmy Moriarty, and his associate Thomas Peerson Corkle were conducting an experiment to see if the history of a “dynamic individual” such as Holmes could be derailed, and his notoriety erased, early on in his career. Petra and Holmes became lovers. Corkle murdered Holmes’ father and sent a serial killer, Francis Black, to debase and kill his sister Genevieve. An anguished Holmes shot Corkle dead, and set about rescuing his sister. The energy released by the eruption of Krakatoa powered Petra’s return to the future.

The Doctor witnessed the eruption of Krakatoa.
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The Krakatoa eruption released a Xylok crystal from under the Earth. It would eventually form the heart of Sarah Jane Smith’s computer Mr Smith.
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Van Gogh painted the Doctor.
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The Monk owned two paintings by van Gogh.
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The Rani kidnapped microbiologist Louis Pasteur.
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Penelope Gate built herself a time machine using a miniature Analytical Engine. She left her husband in 1883 for a life of time travel. She first headed to the year 2000, actually landing in 1996. The seventh Doctor returned Penelope to her native time after meeting her in feudal Japan.
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In 1883, the Time Lord Ulysses exiled his fellow Time Lord Marnal to the home of Penelope Gate’s parents on Earth. Marnal’s memories were locked off, and he wouldn’t recover them until his regeneration in the twenty-first century.
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There was a single account of a pocket of dinosaurs surviving on one plateau in Central Africa, but most scientists and reporters, including a young Arthur Conan Doyle, dismissed it as the ravings of a madman:

“The pygmies from the Oluti Forest led me blindfold for three whole days through uncharted jungle. They took me to a swamp full of giant lizards, like giant dinosaurs.”
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1883 - Ghost Light
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While Light slumbered, the Survey Unit assisting him had established itself in Gabriel Chase north of London as Josiah Samuel Smith, arch-advocate of Darwinist theories. Two years after Inspector Mackenzie vanished while investigating the goings-on at the house, Smith was plotting to use a pass to Buckingham Palace given to his associate - the adventurer Redvers Fenn-Cooper - to assassinate Queen Victoria and bring new order to the “anarchic” British Empire. The seventh Doctor brought Ace to Gabriel Chase to confront her having burned it down in a hundred years’ time. Light awoke and sought to destroy Earth in a firestorm, but was goaded by the Doctor into dispersing itself. Josiah and Light’s Control Unit swapped places on the evolutionary ladder. Control, Fenn-Cooper, the servant Nimrod and the diminished Josiah left in Light’s spaceship, and the house remained abandoned for a century.

The seventh Doctor knew “a nice little restaurant on the Khyber Pass”.

The Torchwood Institute learned about events pertaining to the Doctor, Krakatoa and Gabriel Chase.
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Justine McManus, later Cousin Justine of Faction Paradox, was born to Jake McManus.
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On 23rd December, 1883, Major Henry Rathbone - his mental health having deteriorated after witnessing Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, and after being repeatedly stabbed at the event - murdered his wife Clara.
 [1084]
In 1884, a book was published detailing many types of Amazonian fungus.
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Robert Lewis Stevenson gifted the Doctor with a tumbler of whiskey.
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1884 - SJA: The Ghost House
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The genocidal war criminals Skak and Efnol fled from the twenty-first century to a Victorian villa built in 1865, and attempted to produce a time bubble that, when shattered, would help them escape but destroy Earth in the process. Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and Rani briefly went back to 1884 and thwarted their plan. An alien bounty hunter - whose name translated in Russian to “Death Kill Massacre” - took the criminals away for trial.

c 1885 - Peacemaker
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The tenth Doctor and Martha learned that a smallpox outbreak in the Wild West town of Redwater, Colorado, had been contained by a travelling salesman: Alvin Godlove. They were attacked by gunslingers with energy weapons, but escaped and discovered that Godlove was making a fortune from his miracle cures. The Doctor determined the involvement of the Clades, sentient weapons whose only rationale was to destroy; Godlove’s miracle cure was part of the Clades’ self-repair system. The Doctor destroyed the Clade before they “sterilised” the Earth.

1885 - Timelash
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Vena, the daughter of a Councillor on Karfel, was transported to Earth in the timelash and met Herbert George Wells, who was conducting an experiment with a ouija board. Wells travelled to Karfel with the sixth Doctor, and the experience inspired him, upon his return home, to write his scientific romances.

The Doctor helped “Bertie Wells” with invisibility experiments.
 [1090]
He discovered that H.G. Wells was a ladies man.
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The Doctor met the mystic Madame Blavatsky.
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Lady Clemency Eddison met and fell in love with a man named Christopher, actually a Vespiform in human guise, in India in 1885. She became pregnant by Eddison - who died when the Jumna river flooded - and returned to England, secretly giving birth the following year. The child would become the Reverend Arnold Golightly.
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c 1887 - Zygons: The Barnacled Baby
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The Zygon named Demeris, the sole survivor of a wrecked expedition that was searching for Zygon colonies, became part of Jethro’s Travelling Freak Show as “the Barnacled Baby”. Phineas T. Barnum expressed interest in buying the Baby, or at least arranging for him to be on display in New York. Demeris’ notoriety gained him an audience with Queen Victoria - he subdued the queen, adopted her form and went forth to rule the British Empire...

1887 - All-Consuming Fire
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson were travelling through Austria on the Orient Express when the train was stopped by Pope Leo XIII. The Pope commissioned Holmes to investigate the theft of occult books from the Library of St. John the Beheaded. With help from the seventh Doctor, Ace and Benny, Holmes discovered that his eldest brother Sherringford had allied himself with the Baron Maupertuis. They planned to use incantations in the books to open a gateway to the planet of Ry’leh. Sherringford was under the thrall of the Great Old One named Azathoth, and hoped this would facilitate her escape to Earth. Maupertuis and Sherringford were both killed, and the Doctor transported Azathoth and her followers to 1906, where they also perished. The Doctor and Holmes sealed the portal to Ry’leh forever.

Arthur Conan Doyle would later write the book
All-Consuming Fire
, but it never saw print.

The Doctor told Ace that he met Sherlock Holmes.
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After leaving the Doctor’s company in 1871, Ace became lovers with Count Nikolai Sorin, the great grandfather of Captain Sorin. They pretended to be married, but Ace’s violent nature frightened the Count, and he left her. Ace continued travelling on her time-hopper, and would attend the wedding of Bernice Summerfield in 2010.
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The inventor Sir Joseph Montague obtained a probe from the future, and incorporated it into the metal mind of his Difference Golem: a robot named Adam. Montague established a factory so that Adam’s offspring could eliminate the need for human servants, which he viewed as a form of slavery. The events of Bloody Sunday, 1887, made Montague fear that his robots would be misused for injustice or war, and he deactivated them all.
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In 1888, the Doctor gained a medical degree in Glasgow under Lister.
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Around that time, he sparred with John L Sullivan, the first modern world heavyweight champion.
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The Doctor discovered the truth behind the mysterious Pale Man in nineteenth-century Whitechapel.
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In the Winter Gardens in Berlin, 1888, Miss Alice Bultitude was in the front row of the stalls as Toby the Sapient Pig’s European tour opened. Toby performed with such entertainers as Professor Prometheus, the fireproof Secasian, the “incomparable” Hildebrand and the Blondin Donkey. Bultitude would also attend Toby’s farewell concert at the Black Castle, Alhambra, and acquire a first edition copy of his memoirs.
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@ 1888 - The Ancestor Cell
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Compassion brought the eighth Doctor to Earth to recuperate following Gallifrey’s destruction. He woke up in a carriage with no memory of what had happened, and found he possessed a tiny cube, all that remained of his TARDIS.

@ The Doctor was found wandering and was placed on a hospital ward for five days.
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He travelled in England for a few years, still having no memories.
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Jack the Ripper

1888 (30th September) - The Pit
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The seventh Doctor and William Blake were conveyed by a space-time tear to the East End at the time of the Jack the Ripper murders, then departed to the late twentieth century.