2016 2016 was a year the Twelfth Doctor visited many times . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " , COMIC : " Big in Japan " , " The Stockbridge Showdown " , " Planet of the Rude " , et al . ) In this year , teenagers played games like Pokemon Go and rode hoverboard s . Donald Trump and Brexit were both considered to be major unstoppable powers in 2016 . ( PROSE : " What She Does Next Will Astound You " ) In the later months of 2016 , the Coal Hill defenders dealt with numerous alien incursions which were mostly caused by the Coal Hill Space - Time Rift . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) Also around this time , ( COMIC : " Vortex Butterflies " ) the Tenth Doctor dealt with several alien incursions in the New York City area with the help of Gabby Gonzalez and Cindy Wu . ( COMIC : " Revolutions of Terror " et al ) Dated events . January - August . Early in the year , the famous musician David Bowie died . In tribute to him , Erimem and Andy Hansen left a copy of his album " Life on Mars " on the planet Mars . ( PROSE : " Life on Mars on Mars " ) On 11 March , the British Science Week began . It ended on 20 March . ( TV : " The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo " ) In the spring , EverUpwardReach Ltd sponsored the renovation of Coal Hill School into Coal Hill Academy . ( TV : " The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo " ) In April , an alien pilot and his crew travelled through space - time to Earth for the purposes of exploration and appropriated an abandoned industrial estate off Swallow Avenue in Shoreditch . ( PROSE : " Joyride " ) In the summer , Strax visited a city with his Time Shark . He encountered a boy who was being bullied . He let the boy ride on the shark with him and they scared away the bullies . ( COMIC : " The Adventures of Strax & the Time Shark " ) In July , the Twelfth Doctor joined an internet forum under the name ThetaSigma . He wrote an extremely negative post about an episode of a television series . ( COMIC : " Planet of the Rude " ) In August , the Ninth Doctor , Rose Tyler , and Jack Harkness visited San Francisco . At the time , a wormhole was going through the city which mutated people , first by giving them inhuman strength and flight , then by transforming them into gargoyle - like creatures . The Doctor had a brush with his future by encountering Mickey Smith and Martha Jones , who were both investigating the wormhole as well . While Rose began mutating into a gargoyle , the Doctor , Mickey , and Martha followed the wormhole to its source and shut it down . Almost everything was returned to normal on Earth , but one mutated San Fransciscan was sent a few decades back in time . The Doctor , Rose , and Jack left 2016 to stop him from affecting history . ( COMIC : " The Transformed " ) In August , U . S . President Barack Obama condemned Donald Trump as an unsuitable candidate for president . ( PROSE : " Buccaneer " ) In early September , ( TV : " Co - Owner of a Lonely Heart " ) the Twelfth Doctor left Prince Charlie of Rhodia and his Quill servant outside of Coal Hill Academy . Charlie enrolled into the academy as a student and the Quill became a physics teacher . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) On 17 September , the Level Two Careers Fair was held in the Coal Hill sports hall . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " , " Co - Owner of a Lonely Heart " ) On 26 September , the Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald came to Earth on a time dragon and encountered Gertie and Charlie Baker . ( COMIC : " Super Gran " ) October . On 12 October , a Shadow Kin came through the space - time rift in Coal Hill looking for Charlie and Quill . Quill had the student Kevin Williams shoot it with a displacement gun , killing both himself and the Shadow Kin . On 13 October , April MacLean encountered Charlie and Miss Quill while she was decorating for the autumn prom and learned that they were aliens . Corakinus came through the rip and Quill tried to make April shoot him with the displacement gun . Charlie interfered and April only skimmed Corakinus with the gun . This made her share a heart with Corakinus . Seeing he could not kill April without killing himself , Corakinus left before telling Charlie and Quill he would attack the next day . On 14 October , Coal Hill Academy held its Autumn Prom . During the prom , the Shadow Kin came to Coal Hill . Ram Singh ' s girlfriend Rachel Chapman was killed and everyone attending the prom was terrified . Miss Quill called the Twelfth Doctor and asked for help . When Charlie and Quill were cornered in the Coal Hill school hall , the Doctor arrived and , with the help of Tanya Adeola , weakened the Shadow Kin with the school ' s lights . The Shadow Kin were pushed back through the space - time rip and the Doctor brought together Quill , Charlie , April , Ram , Tanya , and Matteusz near the Coal Hill School Roll of Honours Board and tasked them with the role of protecting Coal Hill from further alien attacks . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) The rest of the students quickly forgot about the Shadow Kin . On 24 October , Ram stumbled into the skinned corpse of C . Caroll after Caroll was murdered by a leaf dragon attached to the skin of Tom Dawson . On 25 October , Ram witnessed the dragon murder P . Volkon . Meanwhile , Miss Quill found herself being spied on by a robot sent by the Governors , disguised as an Ofsted inspector . On 27 October , a second leaf dragon came to Coal Hill and killed the headteacher Frank Armitage . That night , Ram realised that the dragons he and his friends had seen resembled the dragon tattoo on Coach Dawson , and the team confronted Dawson shortly afterwards . They learned that one dragon had been fused to Dawson and the second dragon was her mate . The second dragon joined this confrontation and , after some encouragement from Ram , grabbed Dawson and took him through the space - time rip to wherever the dragons originated from . ( TV : " The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo " ) November . On 3 November , the Lankin came through the space - time rift in Coal Hill to feed on the grief of the inhabitants of Shoreditch . The tips of its appendages morphed into deceased loved ones and tricked many into touching the Lankin and being fed off of . The Lankin brought its great trunk to Tanya ' s window to feed off a large amount of grief in Tanya caused by the death of her father , but Tanya saw through the attempt to mimic her father and instead of feeding the Lankin her grief , she fed it anger . This weakened the Lankin enough that when Miss Quill drove a bus into its main branch it retreated back through the rift . ( TV : " Nightvisiting " ) In mid - November , a single petal - like creature drifted through the rift ; it quickly began feeding off of small animals and multiplying . Also on this day , the bond between April and Corakinus was strengthened by an anchor of a lifeblood . Fearing that Corakinus would come to Earth and kill everyone , April went through the rift to the Underneath followed by Ram . ( TV : " Co - Owner of a Lonely Heart " ) April bested Corakinus in battle and became king of the Shadow Kin . She returned to Earth and ordered the Shadow Kin to destroy all of the petals . Shortly afterwards , the anchor of lifeblood wore off and April lost her Shadow Kin connection . ( TV : " Brave - ish Heart " ) A few days later , Miss Quill put the Coal Hill defenders in detention while she got her arn removed . While the students were trapped in detention with an alien mass murderer in a prison asteroid , ( TV : " Detained " ) Quill travelled with Dorothea Ames and Ballon in a metaphysical engine to gather various materials needed to remove her arn . Once everything was collected , Ballon surgically removed the arn in the Cabinet of Souls . Afterwards , the two had sex and Ballon was tricked into killing himself by the Governers . Quill was then rapidly aged by a Rhodian soul before climbing out of the cabinet . She went back to her classroom and destroyed the asteroid prison which was threatening her students . ( TV : " The Metaphysical Engine , or What Quill Did " ) December . In early December , six days after Quill ' s Arn was removed , Corakinus returned to Earth to capture April and eradicate the human race . He started by murdering Varun Singh and Vivian Adeola . When he came to kill Jackie MacLean , Corakinus confronted Charlie , Matteusz , Ram , and April . Meanwhile , Tanya became determined to avenge her mother ' s death and worked with Quill to make Charlie destroy the Shadow Kin with the Cabinet of Souls . After encountering Tanya and Quill in the school hall , Charlie used the Cabinet of Souls to stop the Shadow Kin from killing everyone on Earth . Although April died , she was resurrected in Corakinus ' body . ( TV : " The Lost " ) Also in early December , the Jezrafeq attempted to invade Earth by emitting a signal that coupled with Christmas music to reduce humans to a brain - dead state . Erimem and Andy Hansen were returning home after shopping for presents at Oxford Street when the signal reached Earth and escaped the signal by being on the Tube . After discovering people affected by the signal , they returned to the Habitat and traced the signal back to the Jezrafeq fleet above Earth . By this time , 70 % of the population was affected . Erimem and Andy reversed the signal back to the Jezrafeq fleet , leading to them losing the mental capacity to pilot their ships and crashing onto Earth . ( PROSE : " Cliff Richards Saves the World " ) On 24 December , the Eighth Doctor went into temporal orbit around Earth after his TARDIS was damaged in the Last Great Time War . During this time , he received a Christmas card in the form of a hypercube from his granddaughter Susan . ( PROSE : " Ghost of Christmas Past " ) On 25 December , Erimem brought Olivia Parson to 2016 from the 17th century as a gift to Andy . ( PROSE : " I Saw Three Ships " ) Early in the day , Helena wrapped presents and reflected that her husband Ibrahim Hadmani would die before the next Christmas , meaning that the day was her last Christmas with him . ( PROSE : " Last Christmas " ) Erimem and friends had lunch with David Hartingden . ( PROSE : " A Bleak Midwinter " ) That night , Erimem and Andy discussed christmas carol s . ( PROSE : " Damn You , Bing Crosby " ) Unknown dates . Sometime in autumn , the Twelfth Doctor came to Stockbridge with plans to bring down Josiah W . Dogbolter ' s criminal empire with the help of several old friends . Dogbolter was brought from the future to St Justinian ' s Church by Frobisher . There , he confronted the Doctor and mentioned killing thousands . Sharon Allen filmed the confrontation and brought the footage back to Dogbolter ' s time , where he was arrested . The Doctor then brought Maxwell Edison to Cornucopia to celebrate Maxwell ' s 60th birthday with Frobisher , Sharon , Izzy Sinclair , Destrii , and Majenta Pryce . ( COMIC : " The Stockbridge Showdown " ) Professor Nakatomi bought a Kaznak Simu - System off of the black market to create a video game system . He tested it by having it physically create the dreams of two young boys . The boys dreamt about two monsters from an action figure series , causing the Simu - System to create two giant monsters that fought each other in the streets , destroying building and cars . UNIT arrived on the scene but were unsuccessful in dealing with the monsters . The Twelfth Doctor arrived in Japan looking for ramen and encountered UNIT . He used his sonic screwdriver to find the Simu - System , and then made it create his dreams instead of the boys ' . Nakatomi was then arrested by UNIT . ( COMIC : " Big in Japan " ) The Transhuman Sisters of the Unholy Protocol came to Hexford searching for , who had been trapped without form in his TARDIS since 1984 . The Sisters couldn ' t open the TARDIS , so they tried to find a Time Lord by putting it up for auction . The Fifth Doctor came to the auction and was led into a trap by one of the Sisters . However , the Sisters were destroyed by another group of bounty hunters . After this , the Master briefly left his TARDIS to steal a body before leaving . The Doctor left shortly afterwards to return to his travels and UNIT cleaned up the mess left by the Sisters ' crashed spaceship . ( AUDIO : " And You Will Obey Me " ) Under orders from the British government , UNIT constructed K2 , a recreation of the original K1 robot . It escaped and went on a rampage in downtown London . The Twelfth Doctor and Petronella Osgood were able to disassemble it , but only after it destroyed the London Eye . ( COMIC : " Robo Rampage " ) The Twelfth Doctor visited the annual UK Book Festival , where he encountered Charles Abbott : an alien who masqueraded as a human to write popular children ' s books . He also met Eliza Jones , who told him that Abbott had kidnapped her younger brother Sammy . Using one of Abbott ' s books , the Doctor tracked Sammy to Abbott ' s home planet . The Doctor and Eliza saved Sammy and trapped Abbott in a stasis jail cell . ( COMIC : " Shock Horror " ) Undated adventures of the Coal Hill Defenders . A few weeks after the Coal Hill defenders were formed and after Matteusz began living with Charlie , practically all of the students at Coal Hill were kidnapped by aliens and taken to a facility in the Void where they were tricked into eradicating the Skandis so the aliens could sell the Skandis home planet . April and Tanya befriended Seraphin , a vlogger who had been working with the aliens for a month , and used him to access the facility ' s dimensional technology and break it . Without a working facility , the aliens could not continue their money - making scheme , so they sent all the students back to Earth . However , they still made a considerable amount of money through selling footage of the students fighting . ( PROSE : " What She Does Next Will Astound You " ) Other information . By this year , the Eighth Doctor ' s companion Izzy Sinclair was working for Médecins Sans Frontières . ( COMIC : " The Stockbridge Showdown " ) In 2014 , ( COMIC : " The Fractures " ) while trying to work out how a forest had grown on Earth overnight , the Twelfth Doctor compared a tree to a time machine , and determined that this had to have happened due to messing with the fabric of time , as " you [ couldn ' t ] create a whole overnight forest with extra special fertiliser " . He referred to a hypothetical scenario , where " [ y ] ou plant [ ed ] a little acorn in 1795 , and in the year 2016 , there [ was ] an oak tree , there in the same spot , with a tiny , little bit of 1795 still alive inside of it . " ( TV : " In the Forest of the Night " ) Behind the scenes . In the novel " Revolution Man " , the Eighth Doctor mentions attending Fidel Castro ' s funeral in Havana . In the real world , was held on 4 December 2016 .