In the Extraordinary Universe, darkness existed. Until a spark caused a chain reaction to bring forth life. Mankind survived two Ice Ages, Stone Age, and Bronze Age. It saw the rise of great civilizations in the world, only to see them fall and enter a Dark Age and medieval times. During these years, there were individuals with extraordinary talents and powers that would inspire future heroes and villains.
1,000,000,000,000 BC: Bill Cipher "liberates" his dimension by plunging it into chaos. He then moves to a lawless space called the Nightmare Realm.
9,500 BC: The Hyborian Age comes to an end.
509 BC: According to Roman tradition, the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, the most important temple in ancient Rome, was dedicated.
August 27, 410: Rome is sacked by the Visigoths.
1127: An evil djinn is trapped within a jewel by a Persian sorcerer.
1191: King Richard leads the Third Crusades against Saladin and the Saracens. The First Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki get caught up in the Crusade near the city of Jaffa. Meanwhile, Prince John seizes power in England. The people of Nottingham suffer the most under the yoke of the brutal Sheriff and his henchmen. However, the Sheriff finds himself thwarted at every turn by a group of outlaws known as the "Merry Men", led by the archer Robin Hood, who steal from the corrupt rich and give most of their earnings to the poor.
June 15, 1215: King John signes Magna Carta to limit his powers; this is the first document of democracy. The Fifth Doctor and his companions Tegan Jovanka and Vislor Turlough stop the Master from preventing the signing.
1289: The First Doctor and his companions Susan Foreman, Ian Chesterton, and Barbara Wright meet Marco Polo and Kublai Khan.
March 25, 1300: The poet Dante Aligheri begins his trip through Hell.
November 1327: Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and his novice Adso of Melk arrive to a Benedictine monastery in Northern Italy to find out the truth about the mysterious death of a monk.
May 30, 1381: Wat Tyler leads a peasents revolt in England.
November 3-October 25, 1415: An English army defeats a French army at the Battle of Agincourt.
June 8, 1431: Joan of Arc is captured by her political enemies and, after a show trial, is burned at the stake for heresy. Twenty-five years later, a Vatican court declared her innocent.
1431: Vlad Dracula is born in Sighisoara, Transylvania.
1452: Dracula is mortally wounded in a battle against the Turks and is turned into a vampire by the Gypsy woman Lianda as a revenge for the deaths of other Gypsies he has caused. He is later confronted by Nimrod, whom he duels for the title of the Lord of Vampires.
1482: Quasimodo, a hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, defends the gypsy Esmeralda from the machinations of religious judge Claude Frollo.
August 31, 1485: King Richard III of England and Henry Tudor have their final showdown at the Battle of Bosworth Field, ending the War of the Roses. Richard III says "A Horse! A Horse! My Kingdom for a horse!" (Richard III), though it was never said at all.
1489: It was the hour of the infamous auto de fe where, for public amusement, heretics and non-believers were tortured and burned in a Busby Berkeley Number.
August 11, 1492: Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia becomes Pope Alexander VI.
October 12, 1492: Christopher Columbus' expedition arrives in the Caribbean.
1499: Ezio Auditore, an assassin, travels to Rome to kill the leader of The Knights Templar; Emperor Kuzco of the Incan Empire is targeted for a coup by his conniving advisor Yzma, who turns him into a llama. With the assistance of a peasant named Pacha, Kuzco regains his humanity and retakes the throne from Yzma; Two teenagers, Juliet Capulet and Romeo Montague of Verona, take their own lives due to their circumstances.