the Kondapalli Fort built in the 14th century was initially used as a business centre, but after the British took control in 1766 it was converted to a military training base?
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This page covers events in the Doctor Who universe occuring after the development of modern humans, about 100,000 BC, to the end of the 1300s. Earlier events can be found on the page Distant past; later events can be found on the individual pages for the 15th century and subsequent eras.
Time unknown: A splinter of Scaroth of the Jagaroth lives among primitive man, perhaps Neanderthals, and helps speed up the development of human culture. (DW: City of Death)
Circa 40,000 B.C.: Five Euterpians arrive on Earth in Australia and begin setting up a ley line of beacons on the planet's surface which their mother ship can use as a guide to split the planet apart and harvest its core for fuel. A random solar flare destroys the mother ship, and the Euterpian away team is trapped on Earth until the late 20th century. (MA: Invasion of the Cat-People)
35,519 B.C.: Monarch's ship makes its first visit to Earth. Kurkutji and several other aborigines are kidnapped from Australia and converted into androids. (DW: Four to Doomsday)
15,519 B.C.: Monarch's ship makes a second visit to Earth, this time kidnapping Princess Villagra and several other Mayans and converting them into androids. (DW: Four to Doomsday)
10,519 B.C.: Monarch's ship returns from its second visit to Earth. (DW: Four to Doomsday)
A splinter of Scaroth assists humans in developing the wheel. (DW: City of Death)
A war erupts between the planets Hextacosulous Blue and Hextacosulous Green; it will eventually destroy them both. (ST: The Lampblack Wars)
The planet of Zolfa-Thura is reduced to a desert in a civil war, leaving only its projector screens. The lone survivor of this conflict, Meglos, goes into hibernation, while the screen's power source, the Dodecahedron, transfers across space to the nearby planet of Tigella. (DW: Meglos)
5519 B.C.: Monarch's ship makes its third visit to Earth, this time kidnapping Lin Futu and other natives of China. (DW: Four to Doomsday)
Circa 5300 B.C.: The inhabitants of Uxarieus test their new Doomsday Weapon, detonating a star which becomes the Crab Nebula, visible to Earth's inhabitants around 1054 A.D. Radiation from the weapon poisons the soil and atmosphere of Uxarieus, causing the collapse of the native civilization and the decline of the Uxarieans to a primitive level. (DW: Colony in Space)
Circa 5000 B.C.: Horus and his followers track Sutekh and his sister Nephthys across the galaxy to Earth in Egypt where the renegade Osirians are defeated. Sutekh is imprisoned beneath a pyramid, while Nephthys's mind is extracted and placed inside a canopic jar. Egyptian culture from this point is based upon the Osirian pattern, while Wars of the Gods enter many of Earth's mythologies. (DW: Pyramids of Mars, MA: The Sands of Time)
3019 B.C.: Monarch's ship returns to Urbanka from its third visit to Earth. (DW: Four to Doomsday)
Circa 2300 B.C.: A splinter of Scaroth assists humans in making the first maps of the heavens. (DW: City of Death)
2537 B.C.: The Atlanteans attempt to trap the ChronovoreKronos, resulting in great destruction and the mutation of one member of the court into a Minotaur. King Dalios forbids any future use of the Crystal of Kronos and it is locked away in the temple. (DW: The Time Monster)
Some time prior to this, the Rani visits the siege, extracting chemicals from the brains of some of the humans in the camps and thus intensifying some of the conflict. (DW: The Mark of the Rani)
1164 BC: Cressida is living at the Temple of Astarte in Carthage at this time. (CC: Frostfire)
Circa 1000 B.C.:
The Exxilons visit Earth, influencing the construction of cities in Peru. It is probably some time after this that they begin constructing a living city on their own world, one of the Seven Hundred Wonders of the Universe, whose absorption of all forms of energy brings about the fall of their civilisation. (DW: Death to the Daleks)
Horath is overthrown and the galaxy emerges from a tyrannical age known as the Dark Empire, to which all galactic civilisations, save for the most primitive ones, were subject for an unknown amount of time. At this point in history Earth is the most primitive planet in the galaxy and is thus spared. (SJA: Enemy of the Bane)
Circa 800 B.C.: Azal seals himself up within the Devil's Hump, awaiting the day when he shall make his final judgment on humanity. (DW: The Dæmons)
Date unknown: three members of the Gorgon race are trapped on Earth and subsequently become the subject of ancient Greek legends, particularly Medusa, who would continue to live on earth for the next 3,000 years. (SJA: Eye of the Gorgon)
519 B.C.: Monarch's ship visits Earth, kidnapping Bigon and several other Greeks and converting them to androids. This is the first visit during which the Urbankan meets actually resistance. (DW: Four to Doomsday)
Circa 500 B.C.: A Thraal ship accidentally lands on a garden of Olabrian joy-luck crystals, leading to a war with the Olabrians and leading to their eventually destruction. (NA: Ship of Fools)
5th century B.C.
Circa 450 B.C.: A crew of Greek sailors are taken from this time to participate in a boat race through the Solar system by a group of Eternals. (DW: Enlightenment)
Lifetime of Earth religious leader Jesus of Nazareth, who is born at the begining of this century in a stable as the Doctor was staying in the last room at the inn. (DW: Voyage of the Damned) In the centuries after his execution by the Romans, it becomes standard practice among many Earth cultures to base their calendar upon the approximate year of his birth, with events before his birth said to occur in the BC or "Before Christ" era and those after taking place in the AD or anno domini era; in more recent years the use of BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era) have come to be used as a non-religious alternative, although their use has yet to become widespread.
The Doctor claims to have been present at "the original" Easter, but it's unclear whether he literally meant the resurrection of Jesus following his crucifixion (the event which Easter commemorates), or the later establishment of the Easter celebration. (DW: Planet of the Dead)
Probably circa A.D. 1: A splinter of Scaroth of the Jagaroth lives among the Romans, and helps speed up the development of human culture. (DW: City of Death)
A.D. 27: John Hart and Jack Harkness arrive from 21st centuryCardiff via the Cardiff rift. There, Jack is reunited with his long-lost brother Gray. On Gray's orders, John buries Jack alive. Jack will spend the next 1,874 years undergoing a cycle of death and resurrection until he is finally unburied in 1901. (TW: Exit Wounds)
Time unknown, but sometime during the Islamic Caliphates: Ordered on pain of death to entertain the Caliph with a story, a young woman tells him the tale of an old man and his granddaughter living on another world, and the granddaughter's forbidden predictions of how her grandfather will develop a machine that can take them on journeys through time and space. (ST: The Longest Story in the World)
King Harold defeats Hardrada, who is slain in battle at Stamford Bridge, but is himself slain and defeated by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings, events the Monk had hoped to prevent. (Known history)
1216: Whilst eluding rebel forces, King John of England sends his baggage train across the square-mouthed estuary on the northwest margin of East Anglia, only to have the Crown Jewels it carries accidentally dropped and sunk in its waters. Tegan Jovanka's foreknowledge of this event was summed up in her assessment of John as "the one who lost something in the Wash." (DW: The King's Demons) John dies later this same year. (Known history)
Exact time unknown: When a "demon" fell from the sky near a convent, a man in a blue box (later called the Sainted Physician) appeared and "smote" the demon. (DW: The End of Time)
Between 1381 and 1386: English poet Geoffrey Chaucer composes his epic poem Troilus and Criseyde, based upon the story of Troilus and Cressida. Cressida is, in fact, Vicki, a former companion of the First Doctor. (DW: The Myth Makers) Chaucer's work is acknowledged as an inspiration for William Shakespeare's later tragedy, Troilus and Cressida.
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