B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (84 page)

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]
The Sensorites
. Henry VIII reigned from 1509-1547. In
Tragedy Day
, the seventh Doctor says he has “never met” Henry VIII (p74); but the sixth Doctor says he has in
The Marian Conspiracy,
and is seen doing so in
Recorded Time and Other Stories:
“Recorded Time”.

[
480
] “The Gift”

[
481
]
Iris: The Panda Invasion

[
482
]
Iris: Enter Wildthyme
. This happens “four hundred years” before the destination they flee to, a Shirley Bassey concert (so, likely the twentieth century, but possibly the twenty first).

[
483
]
Terror Firma
. It’s unclear if this refers to the same occasion mentioned in
The Sensorites
.

[
484
]
The Stones of Blood
. The dissolution of the monasteries took place in the fifteen-thirties.

[
485
]
Black Orchid

[
486
]
The Burning

[
487
] Dating
SJA: Lost in Time
(
SJA
4.5) - The date is given.

[
488
] Dating
Recorded Time and Other Stories
: “Recorded Time” (BF #150a) - King Henry VIII states the exact day. Anne Boleyn was killed about two weeks later, on 19th May. That Anne is still at liberty - and arguing with Henry in the court about his affairs - is a bit ahistorical; in real life, she was arrested on 2nd May and imprisoned in the Tower of London.

[
489
]
Deadly Reunion
, unrelated to the sixth Doctor meeting Boleyn in
Recorded Time and Other Stories
: “Recorded Time” .

[
490
]
Tooth and Claw
(TV)

[
491
]
Benny: The Vampire Curse:
“Possum Kingdom”. The Tigra, a.k.a. the Tiwa, are first mentioned in 1541 by the conquistador Francisco Coronado, although Nepesht’s sojourn with them could predate that.

[
492
] Dating
The Jade Pyramid
(BBC
DW
audiobook #10) - The Doctor and the blurb vaguely identify the period as “medieval Japan”. A much earlier version of this story was set in Korea and dated between 1592 and 1598. Foreigners from across the seas are mentioned, possibly denoting the Portuguese, who arrived in 1543. Firearms are cited in such a way that they don’t appear to be common. Ultimately, while author Martin Day didn’t have a year in mind for the final version of
The Jade Pyramid
, he was inclined to think that it was during the early years of Ashikaga Yoshiteru’s shogunate, which lasted 1546-1564. But even Day concedes that this was more of a generalisation on his part than a hard and fast rule.

[
493
] “Ten years” before
The Room with No Doors.

[
494
]
Hexagora

[
495
]
The King of Terror

[
496
]
The Ark in Space
. Nostradamus lived from 1503-1566, and published his prophecies in 1556.

[
497
] Dating
The Marian Conspiracy
(BF #6) - It is one month after the Wyatt Uprising, at the end of 1554.

[
498
]
The Curse of Peladon
, although the Doctor admits he might be confusing it with the Coronation of Queen Victoria. Elizabeth was Queen from 1558, but the Coronation wasn’t until the following year.

[
499
]
Cat’s Cradle: Witch Mark
. There wasn’t an Earl of Essex at the time of Elizabeth’s Coronation.

[
500
]
Terror Firma
. Elizabeth ruled 1558-1603.

[
501
] Dating
The Room with No Doors
(NA #59) - It is “probably March 1560”, and “early spring”.

[
502
]
Verdigris
. Mary Queen of Scots ruled 1542-1567.

[
503
]
Tragedy Day

[
504
]
The Taint
. The Beast arrive on Earth in 1944, according to
Autumn Mist
.

[
505
]
Sometime Never

[
506
] “Centuries” before
The Perpetual Bond
.

[
507
]
Thin Ice
. Ivan ruled 1533 to 1584.

[
508
] Dating
The Massacre
(3.5) - The first three episodes take place over a single day each, the last picks up nearly twenty-four hours after the end of the third late on the evening of the 23rd and runs into the 24th. The Admiral Gaspar de Coligny was shot on the 22nd. This story is sometimes referred to as
The Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve
, based on some production documents, but this is historically erroneous. The event is more accurately named “the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s
Day
”.

[
509
]
The Time of the Daleks
, which implies that Shakespeare used some of the names of individuals he met in the future for characters in plays such as
Hamlet, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Titus Andronicus
and
The Tempest
.

[
510
] Dating
The Vampires of Venice
(X5.6) - The opening caption says “Venice 1580”. This is another story affected by the Cracks in Time, so it’s possible - given that the Saturnynians would never have come to Venice but for benefit of one - that this story was removed from history when the cracks were sealed (see the Cracks in Time sidebar, however, for why this probably isn’t the case). The Doctor references this story’s “sexy fish vampires” in
A Good Man Goes to War
, giving no indication that they’re now the stuff of alternate history.

The aliens are called “Saturnynians” on the BBC website, “Saturnynes” in
Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia
. The story ends with the canals of Venice still containing ten thousand Saturnynian males, and it’s the subject of fan-conjecture that, somehow, they become the progenitors of the fish-people seen in
The Stones of Venice
.

[
511
]
Timewyrm: Revelation

[
512
]
The Stones of Blood

[
513
] Dating
TimeH: Child of Time
(
TimeH
#11) - The year is given (p68). It’s possible that these events occur in an alternate timeline; see the 2586 entry of this story.

[
514
]
The Seeds of Doom

[
515
]
The Empire of Glass,
which consistently renders "Roanoke" as "Roanoake".

[
516
]
EarthWorld
. This was in 1587.

[
517
]
Four to Doomsday
. The Spanish Armada attacked in 1588.

[
518
]
The Marian Conspiracy

[
519
]
Birthright

[
520
]
Only Human

[
521
]
Sometime Never

[
522
] The Doctor’s claim in
The End of Time
(TV) is backed up by Liz X in
The Beast Below
and the Dream Lord in
Amy’s Choice
. We don’t know the year, but we can presume that it was before
The Shakespeare Code
, and explains her anger with him in that story.

[
523
]
The Wedding of River Song

[
524
] “A Fairytale Life”

[
525
]
The Empire of Glass

[
526
]
Loups-Garoux

[
527
] Dating
Point of Entry
(BF LS #1.6) - The Doctor judges that they’ve arrived “1590 local time, or thereabouts. The Elizabethan Age.” A slightly later dating, however, is indicated in the Doctor telling Peri that while “Shakespeare’s hardly started yet”, they can potentially see
Henry VI
,
Part 1
,
Part 2
and
Part 3
. The real-life evidence suggests that at the very earliest, those three plays were written in 1591, and first performed no later than September 1592. Whatever the case, it’s after Marlowe’s
Tamburlaine
- the first part of which was first performed in late 1587 - has been performed for Queen Elizabeth I.

Certainly,
Point of Entry
happens before Marlowe’s real-life death on 30th May, 1593 - although
The Empire of Glass
details how he faked his demise. That story and
Point of Entry
are reasonably compatible as far as Marlowe’s life is concerned, although the sixth Doctor curiously tells Peri that Marlowe - as history claims, and as the Doctor should know better from
The Empire of Glass
- will die young in a bar fight.

It’s twice said to be summer.

[
528
]
The Empire of Glass
. History tells us Marlowe died on 30th May, 1593.

[
529
] “Three centuries” before
The Bodysnatchers.
This is a different ship from the one seen in
Terror of the Zygons
.

[
530
]

Shakespeare

Going on just the information in the television series, the Doctor has met Shakespeare at least three times. Taking all the other media into account, we can infer that the Doctor has met Shakespeare a bare minimum of eight separate occasions, in at least six incarnations.

We actually see five of these meetings. In chronological order of Shakespeare’s life, these are
The Time of the Daleks
(when Shakespeare is a child), “A Groatsworth of Wit” (set in 1592),
The Kingmaker
(set in 1597, and in which Shakespeare is replaced by Richard III),
The Shakespeare Code
(set in 1599) and
The Empire of Glass
(set in 1609, but with an epilogue that shows Shakespeare’s death in 1616). Additionally,
The Chase
has the first Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki using the Time-Space Visualizer to observe Shakespeare in the court of Elizabeth I, presumably at some point between
The Shakespeare Code
(as
Hamlet
has still not been written) and
Hamlet
’s real-life registry in 1602 (years before
The Empire of Glass
, then).