B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (82 page)

[
359
]
Marco Polo

[
360
] Dating
Asylum
(PDA #42) - It’s “1278” according to the blurb, and 1266 was “twelve years previously” (p116).

[
361
]
SJA: The Day of the Clown
. The first Doctor met the Pied Piper in the
TV Comic
story “Challenge of the Piper” (outside the bounds of this chronology), and this may well have been the same entity.

[
362
]
Benny: The Sword of Forever

[
363
] Dating
Marco Polo
(1.4) - Marco gives the year as “1289”.
The Programme Guide
gave the date as “1300”.

[
364
] “Voyager”

[
365
]
Birthright

[
366
]
Terror of the Zygons

[
367
]
The Two Doctors
. Dante lived from 1265-1321.

[
368
]
The Face of Evil
. William Tell lived in the early fourteenth century.

[
369
]
Lords of the Storm
. Robert the Bruce was one of Scotland’s greatest kings, and ruled from 1306-1329.

[
370
] “Centuries” before
Thin Ice
. The site of the Kremlin has been occupied since the second century BC, but the first stone structures were built there in the fourteenth century.

[
371
] “Thirteen hundred years” before Rose’s time, according to
Only Human
.

[
372
] “By Hook or by Crook”

[
373
] “Profits of Doom”. The Doctor doesn’t recognise him face-to-face, so they probably don’t meet at this time.

[
374
]
TW: End of Days

[
375
]
Benny: The Sword of Forever
. Historically, Philip did move against the Knights in 1307; Pope Clement V declared the Order disbanded in 1312.

[
376
]
Benny: The Sword of Forever
. De Molay and de Charnay are historical, and were burned to death in March. In real life, Guillaume was the twenty-first Grand Master of the Knights (de Molay was the twenty third) and died during the siege of Acre in 1291. The character in
The Sword of Forever
, however, wasn’t born until 1292 (perhaps the one is the son of the other, born after the father’s death?).

[
377
]
The End of Time
(TV)

[
378
]
The Gallifrey Chronicles
. Ockham was a philosopher and friar during the Middle Ages. He was responsible for the principle of Occam’s Razor (also spelled “Ockham’s Razor”) and lived c.1287 to c.1349.

[
379
]
The Time Meddler

[
380
] Dating
Renaissance of the Daleks
(BF #93) - The date is given.

[
381
]
The Awakening
, “centuries” before the village was destroyed in the English Civil War.

[
382
] In the travellers’ personal timelines, this occurs between
Boom Town
and
Bad Wolf
.

[
383
]
Asylum

[
384
]
Rat Trap

[
385
]
SJA: The Time Capsule
. This story might actually be true, even allowing for the diamond’s extra-terrestrial origins.

[
386
] Dating
TimeH: Kitsune
(
TimeH
#4) - It’s medieval Japan, complete with samurais, but the dating is otherwise left unsaid.

[
387
]
Benny: The Sword of Forever

[
388
] “Change of Mind”. This was in 1349.

[
389
] “Genesis of Evil”. This was in the year 1600 of the New Skaro Calendar.

[
390
] Dating
The Art of War
(
DL
#9) - The story occurs in “November” (p34) in “medieval London” (p27). The TARDIS databank makes mention (p28-29) of the Black Death ravaging London in 1348, and that the population had been halved by 1350, so the story is here - a little arbitrarily - placed after that. For the Doctor and Gisella, the story concludes
The End of Time
(
DL
).

[
391
]
The King of Terror.
The Shroud is first recorded in the fourteenth century.

[
392
]
Imperial Moon.
This takes place at “611,072.26 Galactic Time Index”.

[
393
]
Matrix

[
394
]
Cat’s Cradle: Time’s Crucible

[
395
]
Synthespians™

[
396
]
All-Consuming Fire

[
397
]
The Daemons

[
398
]
TimeH: The Child of Time
(p64).

[
399
] “A hundred years” before
The Masque of Mandragora
.

[
400
]
Shadowmind

[
401
]
The Talons of Weng-Chiang
,
Shada
,
The King of Terror.
Agincourt was fought on 25th October, 1415.

[
402
]
The Doomsday Quatrain
. The Doctor refers to the man who was Duke in 1560, i.e. Cosimo de Medici. His paternal grandfather was Givoanni di Bicci de’ Medici (circa 1360 to 1429). The Borgia family (mentioned in
City of Death
) became prominent in politics and the church in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

[
403
] “Urban Myths”. The country where the restaurant is located isn’t specified, but it’s evidently where goulash was invented - originally, that would be Hungary. The Hapsburgs ruled there from 1437 to 1918, and it’s possible that the Doctor’s comment “since the time of the Hapsburgs” refers to the start of their reign.

[
404
]
Son of the Dragon
. Vlad II was killed in 1447.

[
405
] Four hundred years before
The Beast of Orlok
.

[
406
] “Centuries” before
The Beast of Orlok
.

[
407
]
The Kingmaker
. Richard III was born October 1452.

[
408
]
The Many Hands

[
409
] By the Doctor’s best guess, this happened “more than two thousand years” before
Cobwebs
.

[
410
]
FP: Coming to Dust
.
FP: The Book of the War
says that the Mal’akh are monstrosities tainted by the blood of the Yssgaroth (
The Pit
).

[
411
]
A Death in the Family
. The year is unknown, but the Great Vowel Shift - a sea change in how the English language is pronounced - occurred at some point between 1450 and 1750.

[
412
] Dating
The Aztecs
(1.6) - According to Barbara, Yetaxa was buried in 1430.
The Programme Guide
dated the story “c.1200 AD”.
The Terrestrial Index
suggested “1480”, claiming that fifty years elapsed between Yetaxa being buried and the TARDIS landing inside the tomb. This is not supported (or contradicted) by the story itself, although Lucarotti’s novelisation is set in “1507”. Both editions of
The Making of Doctor Who
placed the story in “1430”.
The Left-Handed Hummingbird
firmly dates the story in “1454”.

[
413
] “Agent Provocateur”. They presumably, unlike the first Doctor in
The Aztecs
, don’t wind up engaged because of this.

[
414
]
Wishing Well

[
415
]
City of Death.
Movable type was developed in China during the ninth century, but as Scaroth possessed a number of Gutenberg Bibles (printed 1453-1455), we can infer he was responsible for
Europe
’s development of printing.

[
416
]
Son of the Dragon
. Vlad very briefly ruled in 1448 before being cast into exile; this event must occur after he grained the throne in 1456.

[
417
]
Matrix

[
418
] “Two centuries” before
The Witch from the Well
.

[
419
] Dating
Son of the Dragon
(BF #99) - The story begins on 17th June, 1462, the night of an infamous attack by Dracula’s forces on the Turks. Act Three opens on July 2nd, and events unfold relatively soon thereafter. The name of Dracula’s first wife is lost to history, although there’s a problem with this woman being Erimem - Dracula’s first wife bore him a son, Mihnea cel Rau, who ruled Wallachia 1508-1510. As the Doctor here says, Dracula did briefly regain his throne after this... for all of two months in 1476, before he was killed in battle.

[
420
]
The Kingmaker
. Edward and Richard were respectively born in 1470 and 1473.

[
421
]
The Kingmaker
. History says George was executed on 18th February, 1478.

[
422
]
TW: Dead Man Walking
. It’s never said what became of Faith after Death was banished, and for all anyone knows, she’s the ageless, fortune-telling little girl whom Jack consults in
Dead Man Walking
and
TW: Fragments
.

[
423
] “Two years” before Peri and Erimem’s arrival in
The Kingmaker
. The “big-eared” chap is almost certainly a veiled reference to the ninth Doctor, who apparently passes through the fifteenth century and completes this task, fulfilling the line of communication between his previous self and his companions.

[
424
] Or so he claims in
The Impossible Astronaut
. It’s entertaining to think this could be related to all the conflicting stories about the fate of the nephews of King Richard III, per
Sometime Never
and
The Kingmaker
, especially with regards the temporal shenanigans in the latter story.