B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (92 page)

[
904
] According to Professor Litefoot in
The Talons of Weng-Chiang
, the gun “hasn’t been fired for fifty years”.

[
905
]
The Two Doctors
. The architect Isambard Kingdom Brunel lived 1806-1859, and also features in
Reckless Engineering
.

[
906
]
The Romans

[
907
]
SJA: Mona Lisa’s Revenge

[
908
]
Benny: The Grel Escape

[
909
]
Benny: Epoch: Judgement Day.
Bernice wonders if it’s the “eighteenth or nineteenth century”, the blurb says it’s “Victorian London”. It’s not clear, however, if
this
Victorian London coincides with the genuine article, or is in another era per the Epoch’s machinations.

[
910
] Dating “The Curious Case of Spring-Heeled Jack” (
DWM
#334-336) - The date “1840” is given.

[
911
]
Eye of Heaven
. The date of Stockwood’s first expedition is given (p1).

[
912
] “A hundred and fifty years” (p222) before
Cat’s Cradle: Witch Mark
.

[
913
]
All-Consuming Fire

[
914
] Dating
Reckless Engineering
(EDA #63) - The date is given as “19 July 1843” (p5).

[
915
]
The Church and the Crown

[
916
] According to
The Tomorrow Windows
.
The Unquiet Dead
, on the other hand, certainly presents itself as the first meeting between them.

[
917
]
The Death of Art

[
918
]
The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
suggests that Brewster is about four or five in 1851. Even Brewster is unclear about this, however, as “it’s hard to judge [your age] when you have no birthdays.”

[
919
] Dating
Demon Quest: A Shard of Ice
(BBC fourth Doctor audio #2.3) - Tiermann says “the year was 1847”.

[
920
] No year given, but Eleanor is a child when this happens, and seems middle-aged (actress Joanna Monro was 54 when she played the adult Eleanor) in
J&L: The Man at the End of the Garden
.

[
921
] Dating
Nevermore
(BF BBC7 #4.3) - The Doctor says his meeting with Poe occurred “three days” prior to the man’s death, although technically, Poe was found delirious on the Baltimore streets on 3rd October, 1849, and died on October 7th.

[
922
]
The Algebra of Ice
(p8-11).

[
923
]
FP: The Book of the War
. From the original Cwej’s perspective, this happens some time after
Benny: Twilight of the Gods
.

[
924
] Fifteen years prior to
Other Lives
.

[
925
] “Nine years” before
A Town Called Fortune

[
926
]
The Next Doctor

[
927
] “Ten years” before
Serpent Crest: The Broken Crown
.

[
928
] Dating
The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
(BF #107) - The year is given.

[
929
] Dating
Other Lives
(BF #77) - The year is 1851, and the Great Exhibition was held from 1st May to 15th October. The Doctor’s comment that the Exhibition did a lot of business in its “first six months” is therefore an approximation, as it was only open five and a half months total. As the Duke of Wellington claims, he would have been 82 in this story, and he died the following year.

[
930
] Dating “Claws of the Klathi!” (
DWM
#136-138) - Derridge says it’s “the twelfth of September, year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-One”.

[
931
]
Enlightenment

[
932
]
The Mahogany Murderers

[
933
] “Three weeks” before
The Next Doctor
.

[
934
] Dating
The Next Doctor
(X4.14) - An urchin tells the Doctor it’s “Christmas Eve” and “the year of our Lord 1851”, with the action continuing through the night to Christmas Day.

A glaring oddity is that the CyberKing here rampages across London, and destroys patches of it with heavy weaponry. Lake comments that the “events of today will be history, spoken of for centuries to come”, and even though said events are wildly nonhistorical, the Doctor only comments “Funny, that”. The eleventh Doctor later implies in
Flesh and Stone
that the Cracks in Time ate away at the CyberKing, explaining why it’s not recorded in the history books. (He speculates this, however, before knowing that he’s going to restore everything the Cracks destroyed upon rebooting the universe in
The Big Bang
; see the Cracks in Time sidebar.) It could equally be the case, however, that the CyberKing event isn’t well remembered because it happened at night (severely limiting the number of people who could have actually
seen
the CyberKing) in an era without suitable photography to record the proceedings (even had they occurred in the daytime), meaning the resultant damage was attributed to other causes or left as a mystery.

[
935
]
The One Doctor
. Peter Roget was a physician and lexicographer who lived 1779-1869. He compiled
Roget’s Thesaurus
.

[
936
]
Cryptobiosis
. “Livingstone” is presumably David Livingstone (1813-73), the famed Scottish medical missionary and explorer of Africa (from 1852-56).

[
937
]
State of Decay
. Grimm lived 1785-1863.

[
938
]
Tooth and Claw
(TV). Prince Albert and Sir Robert’s father seem to have begun collaborating as early as Robert’s childhood, but the exact dating is unclear. The Koh-i-Noor was presented to Queen Victoria in 1850, and Albert died 14th December, 1861. The recounting of the diamond in
Tooth and Claw
deviates a little from history - the story implies that Albert whittled down the stone through constant recuttings, when most of the lost mass was shed in a single cutting in 1852.

[
939
]
Downtime
. Victoria was “11” (p14) when her mother died in “1863” (p261). This would make her 14 when she started travelling with the Doctor.

[
940
]
Ghost Ship
. Novelist William Thackeray (
Vanity Fair
) lived 1811-1863; poet Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867; painter Eugéne Delacroix 1798-1863; painter Édouard Manet 1832-1883. While there’s no indication these meetings were on the same trip, it’s possible.

[
941
]
Timewyrm: Revelation
(p4).

[
942
] Dating
The Four Doctors
(BF subscription promo #9; also numbered as #142b) - The year is given.

[
943
]
The Angel of Scutari

[
944
] Dating
The Angel of Scutari
(BF #122) - The Doctor provides all of the specified dates, which historically match the siege of Sevastopol and the Charge of the Light Brigade. The attempted rescue of Hex happens “10:14 on 19th of November”. The only small deviation from history is that Nightingale seems to have arrived in Scutari in early November, not mid-month.

[
945
] Dating “Perceptions” and “Coda” (
Radio Times
#3805-3816) - It’s broadly said to be “Victorian London”.

[
946
] Dating “Cuckoo” (
DWM
#208-210) - The date is given at the beginning of the story.

[
947
]
The Evil of the Daleks

[
948
]
The Sea Devils

[
949
]
The War Games

[
950
]
The Evil of the Daleks

[
951
]
Interference
(p191).

[
952
]
The Rapture
. The brothers’ portal isn’t related to the portal that abducts James Lees in the same era.

[
953
] Dating
100:
“100 My Own Private Wolfgang” (BF #100b) - Mozart was born 27th January, 1756, and it’s now his 100th birthday.

[
954
]
Empire of Death
. James is replaced in 1856, as dated on the back cover and p5.

[
955
] Dating
The Haunting of Thomas Brewster
(BF #107) - Brewster has been at Shanks’ workhouse for five years, and the season of the year is stated.

[
956
]
FP: Erasing Sherlock
(p27). The traditional date for Holmes’ birth, January 1854, is extrapolated from clues in the Conan Doyle story “His Last Bow”. Where
Erasing Sherlock
is concerned, the differing birthdate accommodates Holmes being 25 when the story opens in 1882.

[
957
]
Downtime

[
958
]
The Nightmare Fair
. It’s not said which shelling during the Opium Wars (the first of which lasted 1839-1842, the second 1856-1860) this is meant to denote.

[
959
] Dating “The Screams of Death” (
DWM
#430-431) - The year is given.

[
960
] “The Child of Time” (
DWM
)

[
961
] Dating
A Town Called Fortune
(BF CC #5.5) - The story is oddly circumspect about when it’s set, given that it’s a historical. Fortune is an American town, but we’re not told the state in which it resides, let alone the year. The only tangible clue is that it’s nine years after Donovan was engaged in the gold prospecting business - such activity generally dates to the mid-nineteenth century, and the most famous example of this, the California Gold Rush, lasted 1848-1855.

[
962
]
The Shadows of Avalon

[
963
] “Cuckoo”

[
964
]
Island of Death.
The third Doctor remembers the meeting, so it’s a different occasion than when the sixth Doctor met him in
Bloodtide
.