Timeline for 2000

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A cake commemorating the coming of the year 2000 atWalker General Hospital. (TV:Doctor Who)

2000 was ayear.

Properties

The year 2000 was, as evidenced by statements byAmerican news outlets and world-renowned chronologistProfessorWagg — the start of the third millennium. (TV:Doctor Who^[+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"]) This view was shared by at leastone incarnation of the Doctor. (PROSE:The Novel of the Film^[+]Loading...["The Novel of the Film (novelisation)"]) Despite the predilection of mosthumans tocelebrate it as the beginning of the millennium, however, at leastone other incarnation of the Doctor regarded it as the final year of the second millennium. (PROSE:Millennial Rites^[+]Loading...["Millennial Rites (novel)"]) This tug-of-war between the technical and common conceptions of the year was reflected in an argument betweenAnji Kapoor and her boyfriendDave Young. He held fast to the view that1 January2001 was the beginning of the millennium, whereas she found this pedantry a reason to seriously consider leaving him. (PROSE:Escape Velocity^[+]Loading...["Escape Velocity (novel)"])

Events

Dated

January - February

For the first ten minutes of1 January,London was transformed into theGreat Kingdom.Anne Travers sacrificed her life to return the universe to normal. (PROSE:Millennial Rites^[+]Loading...["Millennial Rites (novel)"]) TheSixth Doctorregenerated shortly after leaving Earth. (PROSE:Head Games^[+]Loading...["Head Games (novel)"])

Also in the morning of 1 January, theEighth Doctor departedSan Francisco after preventingthe Bruce Master from destroying theplanet at the start of the year.Grace Holloway declined an invitation to travel with him and the Doctor did not agree to Grace's invitation for him to come with her. (TV:Doctor Who^[+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)",""]) After the departure of the Eighth Doctor, Grace discovered residue left over from the Master'sDeathworm Morphant form. (COMIC:The Fallen^[+]Loading...["The Fallen (comic story)"])

TheFourth Doctor andRomana II were also on Earth on the 1st of January; visitingParis, much to Romana's chagrin as they had only just visited the city, albeittwenty-one years earlier. (COMIC:The Forgotten^[+]Loading...["The Forgotten (comic story)"])

TheThirteenth Doctor andTeam TARDIS were also on Earth on 1 January, enjoying theNew Year's celebrations atSydney Harbour Bridge, as part of their tour of various New Year's celebrations in history.Ryan Sinclair cited this particular New Year as being his favourite. (TV:Resolution^[+]Loading...["Resolution (TV story)"])

Grace Holloway re-encounters theEighth Doctor. (COMIC:The Body Politic)

InFebruary, the Eighth Doctor returned to Grace Holloway and offered her a trip in the TARDIS. This time, she accepted his offer. (COMIC:The Body Politic^[+]Loading...["The Body Politic (comic story)"]) Sometime after the Doctor returned her to Earth, Grace quit her job at the hospital and, seeking to use the Master's DNA to develop a human/Time Lord hybrid capable ofregeneration, began working for a genetics lab; which she later learned was actually a branch ofMI6. (COMIC:The Fallen^[+]Loading...["The Fallen (comic story)"])

November - December

In earlyNovember,Tom wandered ontoIris Wildthyme'sCelestial Omnibus thinking it was a real bus. Iris left London with Tom on the bus and the two began travelling together. (PROSE:Verdigris^[+]Loading...["Verdigris (novel)"])

Prior toChristmas 2000, the Eighth Doctor warnedChang Lee not to be inSan Francisco on that date and advised him to "take a vacation". Exactly what event inspired that warning has as yet not been officially chronicled. (TV:Doctor Who^[+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"])

Undated

Though theFifth Doctor's experience ofMonarch's invasion of Earth placed it in1981, (TV:Four to Doomsday^[+]Loading...["Four to Doomsday (TV story)"]) one account approximated the date to 2000 relative to the previousUrbankan visits to Earth. (PROSE:History of Mankind according to Doctor Who^[+]Loading...["History of Mankind according to Doctor Who (short story)"])

TheCybermen unleashed acomputer virus that destroyed all of thevowels. (PROSE:Vrs^[+]Loading...["Vrs (short story)"])

TheSixth Doctor metEvelyn Smythe for the first time inSheffield Hallam University. (AUDIO:The Marian Conspiracy^[+]Loading...["The Marian Conspiracy (audio story)"])

TheLondon Eye was opened sometime in this year. (PROSE:Magic of the Angels^[+]Loading...["Magic of the Angels (novel)"])

TheNinth Doctor wasphotographed fighting apterodactyl. By2005,Clive Finch had added a copy of the photo to his collection of information about the Doctor. (PROSE:Rose^[+]Loading...["Rose (novelisation)"])

Lily Henwick'smotherAngela and brotherNoah were taken by theZeeng through arift insidetheir house. TheNinth Doctor andRose Tyler, who wound up in the area while attempting to refuelthe TARDIS, helped rescue them, along withanother abductee, and sealed the rift. (PROSE:The Monster in the Cupboard^[+]Loading...["The Monster in the Cupboard (novel)"])

Other realities

TheEighth Doctor in bed with his wifeGrace Holloway. (COMIC:The Glorious Dead)

In an alternate universe, theEighth Doctor stayed inSan Francisco after defeatingthe Bruce Master and marriedGrace Holloway. He got a job as aprofessor at auniversity in San Francisco and happily lived a domestic life with Grace. (COMIC:The Glorious Dead^[+]Loading...["The Glorious Dead (comic story)"])

Inanother universe,the Doctor came to London to hide from theTime Lords and avoid his trial. To improve his elusiveness, he jumped off apylon andregenerated intoa woman. For a while, the Doctor managed to live an ordinary life on Earth working at aSainsbury's, but she was eventually found by two Time Lords and punished for her actions. (AUDIO:Exile^[+]Loading...["Exile (audio story)"])

Births and deaths

Dated

On10 February,Henry Louis Noone was born inSt Stephen's Hospital in London. (AUDIO:A Death in the Family^[+]Loading...["A Death in the Family (audio story)"])

Undated

Sally Morgan was born. (AUDIO:Project Nirvana^[+]Loading...["Project Nirvana (audio story)"])

Chloe Webber was born toTrish Webber andChloe's father. (TV:Fear Her^[+]Loading...["Fear Her (TV story)"])

Other

According to one account,Zoe Heriot originated from 2000. (AUDIO:Prison in Space^[+]Loading...["Prison in Space (audio story)"]) Despite the fact that most sources date Zoe's life to a much later time, no source disputes that she was a fan of theKarkus comics published in theHourly Telepress in this year. (TV:The Mind Robber^[+]Loading...["The Mind Robber (TV story)"],PROSE:The Wheel of Ice^[+]Loading...["The Wheel of Ice (novel)"])

New York City's total population was 8,008,278, 2,871,032 of whom were foreign-born. (TV:The Gathering^[+]Loading...["The Gathering (TV story)"])

People in1966 initially believed therhinoceros, anendangered species, would be completely extinct by this year. (PROSE:The Rhino of Twenty-Three Strand Street^[+]Loading...["The Rhino of Twenty-Three Strand Street (short story)"])

Behind the scenes

• References in theDoctor Who universe tend to indicate the year 2000 was the start of the millennium, rather than2001, the technical start of that century.
• Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet directly contradictsThe Tenth Planet, the television story the novelisation is adapted from. The1976 novelisation considers theFirst Doctor's regeneration having taken place in 2000, rather the1986 placement the1966 television story gave.