B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (80 page)

[
245
]
Genesis of the Daleks
. There’s no indication how old Davros was when he was crippled, or how much time passed between the accident and
Genesis of the Daleks
.

[
246
] Dating
I, Davros: Guilt
(
I, Davros
#1.4) - The story ends with the Mark I Dalek coming to life. The Daleks seen in
Genesis of the Daleks
are Mark III, so some time must pass - probably just weeks or months, but possibly some years - between the audio mini-series and the TV story.

[
247
] Dating
Genesis of the Daleks
(12.4) - The date of the Daleks’ creation is never stated on television.
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
,
The Daleks’ Master Plan
and
Genesis of the Daleks
all have the Doctor talk of “millions of years” of Dalek evolution and history.
Destiny of the Daleks
, however, suggests a much shorter timeframe of “thousands of years”, and Davros has only been “dead for centuries”. The Daleks seem to have interstellar travel at least two hundred years before
The Power of the Daleks
(so by 1820), although
War of the Daleks
suggests those were time-travelling Daleks from the far future.

The dating of
Genesis of the Daleks
in this chronology is derived from the
TV Century 21
comic strip (for full details, see the dating notes on “Genesis of Evil” [1763]).

[
248
]
A Device of Death

[
249
]
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
, and most subsequent Dalek stories. Again, taking what the Doctor says at face value, the Daleks are set back a thousand years by the Doctor in
Genesis of the Daleks
.

[
250
] “Twelve hundred years’” before
Hornets’ Nest: Hive of Horror
. The
Hornets’ Nest
series sees the Doctor travelling through time to meet the Hornets, so that he encounters them in reverse historical order.

[
251
] Dating “Doctor Conkerer!” (
DWM
#162) - No date is given, but it’s set at the time of the Vikings.

[
252
]
The Book of Kells
. This is historical, and dates to the ninth century.

[
253
]
TW:
“The Return of the Vostok”

[
254
]
The Drowned World
. Charlemagne ruled 768 to 814. The library fire isn’t historical, and is writer Simon Guerrier’s way of establishing a “missing”
Doctor Who
story concerning the great works that went absent from Charlemagne’s archive, as specifically inspired by
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco. In Eco’s book, a library inside a monastery is said to own works by Aristotle, etc., that were formerly housed in Charlemagne’s court library. Real-life scholars aren’t quite sure, though, what works Charlemagne’s library may have contained.

[
255
]
FP: Warlords of Utopia

[
256
]
The Unicorn and the Wasp

[
257
] The Library of St John the Beheaded was mentioned in
Theatre of War
, and made its first appearance in the following NA,
All-Consuming Fire
. In that book, we learn much about the library, including the fact that it has been established for a “thousand years” (p15). The library still exists at the time of
Millennial Rites
. In
The Empire of Glass
, Irving Braxiatel acquires manuscripts for the library (p245).

[
258
]
The Curse of Fenric.
The Ancient Haemovore arrived in “ninth-century Constantinople” according to the Doctor. Ace says the inscriptions are “a thousand years old”.

[
259
] Melanicus has waited for “a thousand years” before “The Tides of Time”. It’s tempting to link the void he was in with “Hell”, the gap between the worlds in
Doomsday
. Merlin here is the Merlin from our universe, a recurring character in the
DWM
strip, not the future Doctor who will pose as Merlin in a parallel universe (
Battlefield
).

[
260
]
Timewyrm: Revelation

[
261
]
Sky Pirates!

[
262
]
The Ghosts of N-Space

[
263
]
Transit
(p204).

[
264
] “Forty years” before
The Destroyer of Delights.

[
265
] “Over a thousand years” before
J&L: The Ruthven Inheritance.

[
266
] Dating
The Destroyer of Delights
(BF #118) - The back cover says it’s the “ninth century”, which is reiterated within the story. It’s cited as the time of Caliph al-Mutawakkil, who ruled 847-861 AD. These events presumably serve as the inspiration for “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” and other stories contained within
One Thousand and One Nights
(vaguely dated by scholars to the ninth century) - but curiously, neither the Doctor nor either of the Guardians comments upon this.

[
267
]
The Chaos Pool

[
268
] Dating “They Think It’s All Over” (IDW
DW
Vol. 2, #5) - The Doctor initially says they are “a thousand years” too early for 1966, so it’s 966. Then he says it’s the “ninth century”, so it’s the 800s. It’s then established that Alfred the Great is king - he ruled from 871 to 899, and it’s after the Doctor met him in such a capacity.

[
269
]
Planet of the Dead

[
270
] “Centuries” before
The Jade Pyramid.

[
271
] “Ten hundred years” before
Thin Ice
, during the “Third Martian Polar Epoch”.

[
272
]
The Keeper of Traken

[
273
]
Kiss of Death
. The palace that Turlough’s family owns is “almost a thousand years” old.

[
274
]
Ghosts of India

[
275
] Dating
Excelis Dawns
(BF
Excelis
series #1) - The story takes place a thousand years before
Excelis Rising
.

[
276
] Dating
The Book of Kells
(BF BBC7 #4.4) - The year is given. The loss and recovery of “the great Gospel of Clumnkille” - thought to be The Book of Kells - is recorded in the Annals of Ulster, although some historians date the Book’s disappearance to 1007, not 1006.

The Doctor only acknowledges his encounters with the Monk in
The Time Meddler
and
The Daleks’ Master Plan
, and seems to overlook their meetings in the tie-in media. Along those lines, he claims to have regenerated “several times” since they last met, and the Monk’s directional unit - stolen by the Doctor in
Master Plan
- is still faulty. Then again, the Doctor describes the Monk as “someone I thought was dead”, which doesn’t describe how matters are left in
Master Plan
, but is a reasonable interpretation of the Monk’s encounter with the seventh Doctor in
No Future
.

[
277
]
Seasons of Fear
. The meeting is also mentioned in
The Tomorrow Windows.
Aethelred was king of England, and lived from circa 978 to 23rd April, 1016.

[
278
]
Invaders from Mars

[
279
]
Transit

[
280
]
The Tomorrow Windows

[
281
]
Bunker Soldiers

[
282
]
The Ghosts of N-Space

[
283
]
Terror of the Zygons

[
284
] Dating
Hornets’ Nest: A Sting in the Tale
(BBC fourth Doctor audio #1.4) - The Doctor says it is 1039. It is midwinter.

[
285
]
Seasons of Fear.
The date is given, and it is exactly seven hundred and fifty years after the Doctor and Charley met Decurion Gralae.

[
286
] A thousand years before
K9: Aeolian
.

[
287
] Dating
The Time Meddler
(2.9) - The story takes place shortly before the Battle of Hastings (14th October, 1066), the Doctor judging it to be “late summer”. The Doctor discovers a horned Viking helmet, although the Vikings never wore such helmets.

[
288
]
The Daleks’ Master Plan

[
289
]
The Company of Friends:
“Mary’s Story”

[
290
]
SJA: Lost in Time

[
291
]
SJA: The Time Capsule

[
292
]
Vampire Science
. Joanna says she was born before the end of the first millennium, but also on the day William the Conqueror died, which was in 1087.

[
293
] “A thousand years” before
Paper Cuts.

[
294
]
Benny: The Judas Gift

[
295
] Dating
TimeH: Deus Le Volt
(
TimeH
#8) - The year is given. Historically, the siege was broken on 2nd June; Honoré and Emily seem to arrive two days beforehand. “Reynald” appears to be loosely based on Raymond IV, the Count of Toulouse (circa 1041/1042-1105). He was an associate of the soldier/mystic Peter Bartholomew, who claimed to find the Spear of Longinus during a church excavation that occurred in mid-June. Faked or not, the “discovery” is credited with motivating the crusaders against their foes.

[
296
]
Benny: The Gods of the Underworld
. Venedel has crawled back to having a feudal society circa 2100, so the Argians’ millennium of decline presumably concludes before that point.

[
297
] “A thousand years” before
Kursaal
. Given the timeframe involved, the humanoids weren’t of Earth descent.

[
298
]
The Big Bang

[
299
]
Rat Trap
. The castle and the Treaty are fictional. The Doctor seems awfully keen to enjoy the celebration of the Treaty, considering the conditions of this period make it a less-than-ideal holiday stop.