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The second Doctor and Serena arrived in a Paris that was celebrating a great victory over the British and Wellington’s mysterious death. The Doctor and Serena first travelled fifty years into the future - to see the end result of the Countess’ Grand Design - then went into the past to prevent it happening.

In 1816, the Doctor visited the Duke of Wellington, and made a lot of money at a gambling den. He set up an account at Chumley’s Bank that he occasionally dipped into while on Earth.
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The Doctor was present when Peter the Great sent an expedition to Alaska.
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1816 (June) - The Company of Friends: “Mary’s Story”
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A temporal storm infected the TARDIS and the eighth Doctor with corrosive “vitreous time”. He arrived, charred and misshapen, at the Villa Diodati at Lake Geneva, 1816, just as Lord Byron challenged his friends - Mary and Percy Shelley, Mary’s step-sister Claire and John William Polidori - to each write a ghost story. The Doctor muttered, “Dr Frankenstein”, lay injured for a week and appeared to have died. Percy suggested they test whether an electro-static spark could make his body twitch, as had been reported with frog’s legs. The experiment revived the Doctor, and he wandered off.

Mary found the Doctor in his ransacked TARDIS. An earlier version of the eighth Doctor answered his later self’s distress call after dropping Samson and Gemma off in Vienna. The younger Doctor activated the TARDIS’ self-repair systems, which healed his older self via their symbiotic link. The older Doctor left, and Mary accepted the younger one’s offer to become his travelling companion.

The Doctor tried to relocate the TARDIS in space, not time, to reunite with Samson and Gemma in Vienna... but he and Mary instead found themselves in that city in 1873.
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The Doctor and Mary travelled together for years, encountering foes such as Cybermen and Axons.
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Mary eventually ended her travels with the Doctor, and returned home to be with her soul mate, Percy Shelley.
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1818 - The Ghosts of N-Space
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Travelling back in time, the third Doctor and Sarah witnessed the early life of the wizard Maximillian.

In the early nineteenth century, the Doctor met Beau Brummel, who told him he looked better in a cloak.
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A Dalek scoutship crashed on the planet Vulcan. By this time, the Daleks had already encountered the second Doctor.
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The Dalek ship was from the far future.
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The Beast of Fang Rock was seen.
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The Reverend Thomas Bright surveyed the Nine Travellers. At some point between now and the late twentieth century, Cessair posed as Mrs Trefusis for sixty years, then Senora Camara.
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On 3rd July, 1820, Florence Sundvig was born.
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Napoleon died in 1821, still traumatised by what he had witnessed in the Great Pyramid in 1798.
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In 1826, the
Camara
was lost in the Irish Sea after snaring a stone “demon” in its nets.
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James Fenimore Cooper struck a deal to include Chingachgook, an actual Mohican, as a fictional character in his writings.
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Mary Shelley’s
The Last Man
was published in 1826.
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1827 - The Beast of Orlok
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General Zoff, the commander-in-chief of the Radzera Planetary League, now possessed Golems that were halfway between mindless brutes and the “civilised” versions represented by Hans Tod and his “sister” Greta. Hoping to create an army of the enhanced versions, Zoff tracked Hans and Greta across sixty thousand light years to Earth.

Baron Teufel returned to Orlok, and a Golem under Zoff’s command killed him, which enabled Zoff to adopted Teufel’s form using a “metamorphiser”. The eighth Doctor and Lucie visited Orlok by mistake after the TARDIS entirely failed to materialise in Alton Towers. The Doctor destroyed Zoff’s Golem and Orlok Castle in the process. Zoff’s people made him suffer a humiliating loss of rank, and Hans and Greta remained on Earth.

1827 - The Eye of the Jungle
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The eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory found themselves in the Amazon rain forest, and confronted the Nadurni: aliens who were harvesting animals to transform into biological weapons for a war effort. The big game hunter Oliver Blazington, who was aiding an expedition to collect animals for the opening of the London zoo, was hideously transformed by the Nadurni’s experiments. He attacked his tormentors, and died as their space station was destroyed.

(=) c 1827-1828 - Medicinal Purposes
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A human researcher from the future acquired a Type 70 TARDIS from a Nekkistani dealer of Gryben, and a dying alien race employed him to research a virus that was killing them. The aliens’ immune systems resembled those of humans, so the researcher set up shop in Edinburgh, 1827. He took the guise of “Dr. Robert Knox”, the anatomist who employed the graverobbers William Burke and William Hare to provide cadavers for study. Not content with unearthing corpses, Burke and Hare started murdering people to fulfill Knox’s demands.

Knox infected some Edinburgh residents with the alien virus, but anyone who consumed alcohol proved immune. Failing to make progress, Knox used his illicit technology to roll back time in Edinburgh and start with “new” bodies. He grew ambivalent toward his employers’ survival, and turned the enterprise into an elite tourist attraction, with patrons paying to witness the “Hale and Burke Experience”. The memories of the locals grew cloudy as time repeatedly looped. The sixth Doctor and Evelyn arrived inside of Knox’s time loop, and discovered his operations.

The Doctor was at the opening of the London Zoo.
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On 28th January, 1829, the Doctor and Evelyn observed Burke’s public hanging. The Doctor tricked Knox into leaving his time loop and infected him with the alien virus. Knox fled in his TARDIS, and history was restored to its proper path. The Doctor and Evelyn took the mentally disabled “Daft Jamie”, who was fated to become one of Burke and Hare’s victims, back to meet his appointed demise.

Knox was dying from a flu virus that he’d contracted in Edinburgh. He found an emotion-eating Indo in a crater of congealed iron magma on Mercury - in exchange for the Indo extending Knox’s lifespan, Knox agreed to facilitate the creature feasting upon the emotions of John Wilkes Booth, one of history’s most famous assassins, in 1865.
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Francesca Farrow ran away with the Circus of Delights in 1829 and became its bearded lady.
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Octopoid psychovores, the Saiph, inhabited a planet of the same name in the constellation of Orion. In 1829, some of their number relocated to Earth after a cosmic storm struck their satellite. The Saiph reverted to protoplasm, and were nourished by the minerals in a cave near Antibes, France.
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In early May 1830, the time traveller Chloe and her dog Jamais happened upon Sabbath in St. Raphael, France. She sensed part of his history but fell unconscious. When she awoke, Sabbath had left her a diamond and a book purporting to speak of the future. Her belief in the book allowed Sabbath to manipulate her activities.
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(=) In 1831, energy beings from the Eternium, a doomed pocket universe, manipulated the aspiring poet Jared Malahyde to work on the Utopian Engine: a device intended to temporally age Earth to extinction. The Eternines wanted to harvest the life force energy released by Earth’s demise. Malahyde partnered with architect Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and they pioneered the Malahyde Process, a means of developing superior steel. Malahyde spent the next twelve years working on the Utopian Engine.
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The TARDIS arrived in 1831 on the fifth Doctor’s preset instructions, having travelled from an alternate version of 2008. The Ship buried itself in the muck of the Thames, and remained inert for thirty-four years.
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1832 (June) - Hornets’ Nest: The Circus of Doom
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The fourth Doctor arrived in Blandford and learned from a shop assistant, Sally, that the strange Circus of Delights had come to town. Almost the whole population watched the show until two in the morning, amazed by the lion act and the Clown Funeral. An Italian dwarf, Antonio, served as ringmaster. The Doctor met Dr Adam Farrow, who was looking for his sister Francesca.

On the second night, all the villagers returned to watch the show again, and the Doctor discovered that the Hornets had both possessed Antonio and infiltrated the entire circus. Various villagers were compelled to join the circus and perform incredible acts.

The Doctor realised that the withered feet he’d seen in the ballet shoes in the future belonged to Francesca. He hypnotised Antonio to learn of the dwarf’s history - and was shocked to find that the Hornets had somehow used the TARDIS to take control of him, an event that had not happened yet in the Doctor’s timeline. The Hornets swarmed out of Antonio. Francesca was killed, but the Doctor left with Antonio’s body, now in stasis.

Farrow took his sister’s body and had it embalmed. Eventually, only her feet survived, still in their ballet shoes.

Max Capricorn started running Max Capricorn Cruiseliners in 1832.
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1835 - Bloodtide
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The sixth Doctor took Evelyn to meet Charles Darwin, her personal hero, in the Galapagos Islands. They learned of “devil creatures” on the island, identifying them as Silurians. The Doctor confronted their leader, the renegade scientist Tulok, who planned to wipe out all human life with a virus. The Doctor tricked the Silurians’ Myrka into destroying a Silurian submersible, which killed Tulok before he could launch his bacterial warheads. The Doctor suggested that Darwin not mention the Silurians in his writing.

Albert Tiermann began entertaining the blind King with stories.
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The Doctor took tackling lessons from Webb Ellis.
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In May 1837, in the Pyrenees, the archaeologist Louis Vosgues stood on the verge of formulating the theory of evolution years before Darwin. An Agent of the Council of Eight ensured that Vosgues fell off a cliff to his death.
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The killer Springheeled Jack was first reported in London in 1837.
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The Victorian Era

The Doctor attended the coronation of Queen Victoria.
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In the 1840s, a tenant farmer who tried to flatten the tumulus on Lanyon Moor died of a heart attack. The crops nearby failed for the next seven years.
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Professor Litefoot’s Chinese fowling piece was last fired around this time.
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The Doctor met Brunel.
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He also gave Hans Christian Andersen the idea for “The Emperor’s New Clothes”.
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The International Gallery took possession of Guieseppe di Cattivo’s works in Victorian times.
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Benny, Jason and Peter, in fleeing from a party of time-travelling Grel, stopped off in Victorian times. The Grel took the opportunity to test their Great Grel Gun, and atomized a group of schoolgirls.
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(=) It was possible that an alternate version of Benny and her friend Ruth survived in a Victorian London created by the Epoch.
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1840 - “The Curious Tale of Spring-Heeled Jack”
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The eighth Doctor investigated the case of Springheeled Jack, who had apparently been assaulting young women in London. He discovered that Jack was innocent, and the killings had been performed by the alien Morjanus, a bitter rival of Jack’s race. Morjanus released the fire-beings named the Pyrodines, and the Doctor destroyed them. Jack remained in London to fight crime.

An alien race, on the verge of losing a war, had long ago seeded its DNA into space in millions of head-shaped
moai
. The aliens’ rivals killed them, but the
moai
distributed the DNA like a virus, creating hybrids of the aliens on multiple worlds. On Earth, such
moai
had settled on Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) and turned some Polynesians into alien hybrids. But in October 1842, Horace Stockwood’s expedition to the island carried a disease that would kill off the hybrids.
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The Welsh town of Dinorben mysteriously emptied overnight. Goibhnie had taken the people to populate a town on the world of Tír na n-Óg.
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