B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (79 page)

[
186
]
Made of Steel
. It’s not specified that this was during the famous historical eruption.

[
187
] “Two thousand years” before
The Art of Destruction
.

[
188
] Dating
The Fires of Pompeii
(X4.2) - The date is a matter of historical record. The Doctor claims he’s been to Rome “ages ago” before during the great fire, a reference to
The Romans
- but as we’ve seen, he’s made a couple of other trips to the city.

[
189
]
The Fires of Pompeii
. According to a vision the High Priestess of the Sybilines has of the “Pyrovile alternative” timeline.

[
190
]
The Fires of Pompeii

[
191
] Dating
The Pandorica Opens
and
The Big Bang
(X5.12-5.13) - The Doctor says it’s “102... not am, not pm, AD”. The real Cleopatra, as is mentioned, has already died (in 30 BC).

The Cybermen seen here warn that “all the universes are deleted”, which is in keeping with their having the Cybus logo (meaning they’re from Pete’s World). However, they now have Cyberships, teleportation and their heads sprout tentacles and can operate independently - all of which seems more advanced than the Cybus models first seen in
Rise of the Cybermen
/
The Age of Steel
. Those Cybermen discarded the whole body apart from the brain, but the faceplates of these newer models open up to reveal bone skulls, and hunt for “organic components”. The conclusion is either that the Cybermen seen here are the first from
our
universe seen in the new series (having melded the Cybus tech with their own), or that they’re from the future of Pete’s World.

[
192
]
The Big Bang

[
193
]
TW: Trace Memory

[
194
] Dating
The Stone Rose
(NSA #7) - The date is given.

[
195
]
The Way Through the Woods
. The Roman invasion of England began in 43 AD, and formally ended in 410.

[
196
]
Only Human

[
197
]
Ghost Ship

[
198
] “The Collector”

[
199
]
The Shadows of Avalon

[
200
]
TW: End of Days

[
201
]
Dead London
. The “lost legion” that’s used to populate the Roman London is presumably Rome’s notorious Ninth Legion, whose real-life disappearance has led to much speculation. Sources claim the legion went missing as early as 117 AD, although it’s possible it occurred later. Tellingly, the Ninth isn’t listed amongst the legions active during the reign of Marcus Aurelius (161-180), so it was presumably “lost” prior to that. Films inspired by this historical oddity include
The Last Legion
(2007) starring Colin Firth, and
Centurion
(2010) starring Dominic West, with Noel Clarke in the cast.

[
202
] “Ripper’s Curse”. Ptolemy lived 90 to 168 AD.

[
203
]
FP: Warlords of Utopia
. In our history, Commodus succeeded Marcus Aurelius in 192, and was the first in a long line of weak and/or short-lived Emperors. Roma I’s Emperors were all historical figures, and potential Emperors. Claudius Gothicus did rule and scored notable military victories, but died of plague. In Roma I, he survived to rout the Germanic tribes. Diocletian also ruled in our history.

[
204
]
The Stone Rose

[
205
] “The Tides of Time”

[
206
] Dating “The Futurists” (
DWM
#372-374) - It is “the late third century”.

[
207
] “Seventeen centuries” before
The Curse of Fenric.
The novelisation likens this contest to an ancient Arabian tale that takes place in “the White City”.

[
208
] “A thousand years” before
Marco Polo.

[
209
]
The Masque of Mandragora

[
210
]
The Time of the Daleks

[
211
] Dating
Seasons of Fear
(BF #30) - The date is given.

[
212
] “The Tides of Time”

[
213
] Dating
The Council of Nicaea
(BF #71) - The year is given. The Doctor says the TARDIS has landed “a few days before the council is set to begin”, but Athanasius more accurately says it is “the night before the council starts”. Historically, the Council opened on 20th May.

[
214
]
Eye of Heaven
(p181).

[
215
]
Iris: Enter Wildthyme

[
216
]
Timewyrm: Apocalypse

[
217
]
Time and the Rani
. Hypatia of Alexandria, a neo-Platonic philosopher and mathematician, lived circa 370-415 AD.

The Rani's Time Brains

The Rani kidnaps eleven geniuses before we see her plans nearing fruition in
Time and The Rani
. In the televised version, only three of these are named: Hypatia, Pasteur and Einstein. The rehearsal script and the novelisation both mention three more: Darwin, Za Panato and Ari Centos. The novelisation also states that the Danish physicist Niels Bohr is kidnapped.

[
218
] “The Tides of Time”. The date is given - this is the opening battle of the Millenium (sic) wars. See the main entry (c 1983) for more.

[
219
]
Memory Lane

[
220
]
The Vampires of Venice

[
221
]
The Big Bang

[
222
]
Day of the Moon

[
223
] “Millennia” before
Point of Entry
.

[
224
] The Darksmiths’ origins go back “countless generations” before
The Colour of Darkness
(p49), and are here arbitrarily estimated as fifteen hundred years, in accordance with at least a millennia passing after the Darksmiths were commissioned by the Krashoks (presuming said “millennia” has happened concurrently from the Darksmith’s point of view). There’s no mention of the colonists of Karagula being human.

[
225
] “Millennia” before
The Pyralis Effect
. Gallifrey is in Kasterborous, and it’s not impossible that the unnamed race that defeated the Pyralis was the Time Lords.

[
226
]
Toy Soldiers
(p208). The novel takes place in 1919, and the war on Q’ell has been going on for “fourteen hundred and five years” by that point.

[
227
]
FP: Warlords of Utopia

[
228
]
The Suns of Caresh

[
229
] Dating
TW:
“Rift War” (
TWM
#4-13) - Jack “reckons” from the carbon buildup in some grass that he chews that it’s “around 600 AD, slap bang in the middle of the Dark Ages”.

[
230
]
The Talons of Weng-Chiang
. Bede lived c.673-735, although he never went to London, only leaving Jarrow once to visit Canterbury.

[
231
]
Companion Piece
. This is a neat trick on Bede’s part, as he died in 735 and the building of Westminster Abbey didn’t start until 1050.

[
232
]
The Banquo Legacy
. It was attributed to the Silurians in
White Darkness
(p89).

[
233
]
Four to Doomsday

[
234
]
The Mark of the Rani

[
235
]
The Tomorrow Windows

[
236
] “Twelve hundred and twenty-four Terran years” before
First Frontier
.

[
237
]
Battlefield
. The archaeologist Warmsley thinks that Excalibur’s scabbard dates “from the eighth century”.

[
238
]
Wolfsbane

[
239
]
I, Davros:
“Purity”. In
The Daleks
, the Dals are cited as being forebears of the Daleks.

[
240
] Dating
I, Davros: Innocence
(
I, Davros
#1.1) - Davros is currently 16, so it’s thirteen years before
I, Davros: Purity.
Yarvell’s name is doubtless a play on “Yarvelling”, the creator of the Daleks according to
The Dalek Book
(1964) and the
TV Century 21
comic.

[
241
] Dating
I, Davros: Purity
(
I, Davros
#1.2) - Davros was 16 in
I, Davros: Innocence,
and he’s now 29; we know this partly because the product blurb says he’s “approaching thirty”, and because his sister (two years his elder, according to
Innocence
) is cited as being 31.

[
242
]
Genesis of the Daleks

[
243
] Dating
Davros
(BF #48) and
I, Davros: Corruption
(
I, Davros
#1.3) - Events pertaining to Davros having Shan killed are told in flashback in
Davros
and expanded upon in
Corruption
. Davros claims in
Genesis of the Daleks
, “Many times in the last fifty years, factions of the government have tried to interfere with my research here” - “here” indicating the Kaled bunker and the work of the Scientific Elite. It seems reasonable to assume that said fifty years pass between Davros schisming the Elite off from the Kaled government (as happens in
Corruption
) and
Genesis
. That matches with Davros being 30 when he’s crippled in
Corruption
, but his being “an old man” - owing to his life-support systems, which make him the first Kaled to enjoy a natural (if one can call it that) lifespan in ten generations - in
I, Davros: Guilt.

[
244
]
Davros
and
I, Davros: Corruption,
drawing on sources such as the novelisations of
Genesis of the Daleks
and
Remembrance of the Daleks
. The circumstances of how Davros came to be in his life support system are never given on screen - it’s described as “an accident”, which doesn’t directly support the idea that it was a Thal attack.