B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (83 page)

[
425
] Dating
The Kingmaker
(BF #81) - Edward IV died on 9th April, 1483, and Edward V’s short-lived reign began on 18th April (he’s one of three British monarchs to have never been crowned). Peri and Erimem arrive at least three days beforehand, and work at The Kingmaker for about six months. A minor anomaly is that Henry Stafford later claims Peri and Erimem turned up “about eighteen months” before what’s clearly August 1485, meaning it’s more accurately two years plus change.

[
426
] Dating
The Kingmaker
(BF #81) - One of the Doctor’s notes to Peri and Erimem dates their arrival to 1st August, 1485. Bosworth Field was fought on 22nd August, and it’s a little puzzling to wonder how the run-up to the conflict unfolded, given that Richard III time-jumps with the Doctor to 1597 and is apparently absent some days beforehand. Henry Stafford was historically executed on 2nd November, 1483, so in the
Doctor Who
universe, he languishes in prison for twenty-one months beyond that point.

[
427
]
The King of Terror

[
428
]
Blood Harvest

[
429
]
Project: Twilight

[
430
] According to Harrison Chase in
The Seeds of Doom.
The Wars of the Roses lasted from 1455-1485.

[
431
] Dating
Sometime Never
(EDA #67) - The date is given.

[
432
] Dating
The Left-Handed Hummingbird
(NA #21) - The date is first given on p39.

[
433
]
The Talons of Weng-Chiang
. The Doctor notes, “I haven’t been in China for four hundred years” - presumably four hundred years ago in history, as opposed to when the Doctor was four hundred years younger.

[
434
]
Dreamland
(
DW
)

[
435
]
Managra
. This happened “seven years” before Torquemada’s death in 1498.

[
436
] The Doctor has Christopher Columbus’ business card in
The Two Doctors
. Columbus lived 1451-1506 and discovered the New World in 1492.

[
437
]
Eye of Heaven

[
438
]
Cobwebs

[
439
] Dating
The Masque of Mandragora
(14.1) - It’s said that the Helix will return to Earth in five hundred years at the “end of the twentieth century”, so the story is set at the end of the fifteenth century. The second edition of
The Making of Doctor Who
said that the story is set in “the fifteenth century”. Hinchcliffe’s novelisation specified the date as “1492”,
The Terrestrial Index
and
The TARDIS Logs
both set the story “about 1478”.
The Discontinuity Guide
said it must be set “c.1470-1482 when Da Vinci was in Florence”. In
SJA: Death of the Doctor
, Sarah Jane would seem to remove any ambiguity about this when she says that she visited “Italy, San Martino, 1492”.

The entity that encroaches on Earth in
The Eleventh Tiger
(set in 1865) also seems to be the Mandragora Helix, even though the Doctor says in
Masque
that it’s been banished for five hundred years. There’s either another conjunction taking place that he doesn’t know about, or he’s discounting events of 1865 because he knows he already won the day then.

The novel
Beautiful Chaos
not only agrees that
Masque of Mandragora
occurs in 1492 (pgs 41, 167), it takes the added step of saying that the Doctor and Sarah fought the Helix “five hundred and seventeen years, one month, four days” (p43) prior to 15th May, 2009 - which would be very handy, if the “15th May” dating weren’t so dubious (see the dating notes for
Beautiful Chaos
).

[
440
]
Beautiful Chaos

[
441
]
SJS: Buried Secrets
,
SJS: Fatal Consequences
and
SJS: Dreamland
. Sarah’s research-minded friend Natallie says that Giuliano wrote his journal in the “sixteenth century”, suggesting that Giuliano didn’t record events from
The Masque of Mandragora
until some years afterwards. Alternatively, it’s possible that Natallie is just guessing based upon the sketchy records at her disposal, and Giuliano wrote his journal before the turn of the century. A continuity glitch exists in that the Doctor doesn’t tell Sarah until the very end of
The Masque of Mandragora
that the Mandragora Helix will return to Earth in five hundred years, so there’s no opportunity for Giuliano to learn of this and later record it in his journal. It’s possible, though, that Giuliano - even from a distance - overhears the Doctor and Sarah’s final conversation, which would explain why he seems a bit disconcerted even before witnessing the TARDIS dematerialise. If so, however, it’s strange that Sarah so repeatedly flogs herself in
Sarah Jane Smith
Series 2 because her “loose lips” told Giuliano of the future, when if anything it’s the Doctor’s fault.

[
442
]
Spiral Scratch

[
443
]
Managra.
Torquemada died 16th September, 1498.

[
444
]
So Vile a Sin
. Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer, was the first European to journey by sea to India.

[
445
]
Instruments of Darkness

[
446
]
Absolution
.
The Garden of Earthly Delights
is Bosch’s best-known work, painted somewhere between 1490 to 1510. The idea that the Doctor posed for this becomes even more fanciful once you realise that the depicted figures are nude.

[
447
]
SJA: Mona Lisa’s Revenge
. The artist’s name is spelled “Giuseppe” in the closed captioning, but “Guieseppe” in the art book Rani consults on screen.

[
448
] Dating
The Ghosts of N-Space
(MA #7) - The Doctor says it is “somewhere near the turn of the century”.

[
449
]
Minuet in Hell

[
450
]
The Quantum Archangel,
doubtless extrapolating from use of a Stattenheim remote control in
The Two Doctors
, with a dash of
Muppets
influence.

[
451
]
TW:
“The Selkie”. Date unknown, but women on Seal Island have been aiding the Selkie for some “centuries”.

[
452
] “Four hundred years” before
Ghosts of India.

[
453
]
The Stones of Venice

[
454
]
SJA: The Curse of Clyde Langer
. Date unknown, but at a rough guess, it’s probably some centuries prior to the Mojave surrendering to United States forces in 1859. Mojave culture stretches back that far, but very little is known about it.

[
455
]
Recorded Time and Other Stories
: “Recorded Time”. Prince Arthur died on 2nd April, 1502.

[
456
]
The Time Meddler
,
City of Death.

[
457
]
Kingdom of Silver

[
458
]
City of Death
. The Doctor’s note to Leonardo ends “see you earlier”. In
The Two Doctors,
the Doctor has Leonardo’s business card.

[
459
]
SJA: Mona Lisa’s Revenge
. It seems reasonable to presume that all seven Mona Lisas were created using paint made from the alien rock, as the original painting is destroyed in 1979 (
City of Death
). In both
City of Death
and
Mona Lisa’s Revenge
, various characters attribute Leonardo as having painted the Mona Lisa between 1503 and 1519, in accordance with the painting’s real-world history.
City of Death
, however, specifies that the original Mona Lisa, at least, was completed by 1505.

[
460
]
Doctor Who - The Movie

[
461
]
Relative Dimensions

[
462
]
Happy Endings

[
463
] Dating
City of Death
(17.2) - Tancredi asks what the Doctor is doing in “1505”.

[
464
]
The Nowhere Place

[
465
]
SJA: Mona Lisa’s Revenge
. The number of years that elapse between Guieseppe painting
The Abomination
and his death in 1518 isn’t specified.

[
466
]
Vincent and the Doctor
. The Sistine Chapel was painted from 1508-1512.

[
467
] “Changes”. Peri is surprised to find the picture in a store room, so she wasn’t with the Doctor at the time.

[
468
]
The Stone Rose

[
469
]
The Resurrection of Mars

[
470
] “Centuries” before
The Rising Night
. As the Baobhan Sith are enemies of the Time Lords of old, it’s odd that they were, historically speaking, allowed to create an Empire. Then again, the fall of their Empire here might well owe to Gallifrey’s intervention.

[
471
] “Eight years” before “Dragon’s Claw”.

[
472
]
SJA: Mona Lisa’s Revenge.

[
473
]
Hornets’ Nest: The Stuff of Nightmares
. The expression is first cited in a 1520 poem by Conrad Goclenius.

[
474
] Susan says in
The Aztecs
that this happened in 1520; as
The Left-Handed Hummingbird
correctly identifies, it was actually 1519.

[
475
]
Point of Entry.
The Spanish invasion of the Aztecs happened 1519-1521.

[
476
]
Point of Entry
. Agrippa lived 1486-1535.

[
477
] Dating “Dragon’s Claw” (
DWW
#39-43,
DWM
#44-45) - “It is 1522... the summer of death!” according to the opening captions.

[
478
]
Benny: The Lost Museum