Washington DC Washington DC was the federal capital city of the United States of America on Earth . The Washington Dulles International Airport services the Washington DC metropolitan area . ( TV : " Rendition " ) History . 19th century . In August 1814 , Washington DC was attacked by the invading British . The White House and the Library of Congress were both burned in the process . ( AUDIO : " Washington Burns " ) On 11 April 1865 , Abraham Lincoln gave his final public address in the wake of the end of the American Civil War . ( PROSE : " Blood and Hope " ) Four days later , the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe travelled to the city to fix history changes made by Robert Knox , including Lincoln ' s assassination . ( AUDIO : " Assassin in the Limelight " ) 20th century . In 1951 , after being sequestered by intelligence agencies , the Eighth Doctor found himself needing to report to people in Washington , not long after visiting Moscow in Russia . ( PROSE : " Endgame " ) In 1969 , the Eleventh Doctor helped President Richard Nixon to fight the Silence . ( TV : " The Impossible Astronaut " / " Day of the Moon " ) In the same year , Amy and Rory Williams travelled from New York City to Washington D . C . to view the events of their past . They later told Chrissie Allen that they had been vacationing in Washington where they had friends and family who were going through a hard time . ( PROSE : " Summer Falls and Other Stories " ) Before 1997 , Brigadier - General Adrienne Kramer met the Seventh Doctor in Washington when it was about to disappear into a time rift . ( PROSE : " Vampire Science " ) On 6 May 1997 , the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was assassinated there . ( PROSE : " The Dying Days " ) 21st century . Washington DC was one of ten major cities across the world , all of which had underground railways , where Coldfire Construction built a reactor within a period of 18 months as part of a plot by the Slitheen to drain the Sun ' s energy , operated by at least one Slitheen disguised using a skin suit made from a local . At somepoint in 2008 , after Sarah Jane Smith foiled the Slitheen with the help of her friends at Park Vale Comprehensive School at Ealing in London , she contacted UNIT so they would clear up the Coldfire sites . ( TV : " Revenge of the Slitheen " ) In 2009 , Alan Jackson moved here with his daughter Maria Jackson from their old home in the Ealing district of London . ( TV : " The Last Sontaran " ) He then worked at the Head Office of " CapitolSys Technologies " in Washington DC . Chrissie Jackson and Ivan planned to come to Washington DC during their honeymoon . Chrissie wanted Maria to show her all the best shoe shops in the capital . ( PROSE : " The Last Sontaran " ) On Christmas Day 2009 , President Barack Obama was giving a speech from the White House when , like everyone else , he was converted into a copy of . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) Following Miracle Day in 2011 , Dr Vera Juarez helped Rex Matheson recover from his punctured heart . ( TV : " The New World " ) She worked at a conference in City Hall to investigate the nature of the Miracle . ( TV : " Rendition " ) Rex , along with Esther Drummond later forcibly left the CIA in Langley to join Torchwood here , before heading for Los Angeles . ( TV : " Rendition " , " Dead of Night " , " Escape to LA " ) Discovering the passing of the categories of life by the US government , Dr Juarez also left for LA to meet up with Torchwood . ( TV : " The Categories of Life " ) Later in the 21st century , Washington had a T - Mat centre . ( TV : " The Seeds of Death " ) 22nd century . In the 22nd century , Washington DC was attacked by CEREBRA , which took control of the minds of approximately 700 , 000 people in the city . However , it was defeated by the Seventh Doctor and Ace . ( AUDIO : " Washington Burns " ) 26th century . By the 26th century , Washington DC had been renamed Oceanic City . ( AUDIO : " Scorpius " ) 41st century . The Tenth Doctor visited the city in 4041 and battled the Klytode there . ( COMIC : " Return of the Klytode " ) Alternate timeline . In an alternate 2106 where the New Dalek Paradigm invaded Earth starting with London using a piece of the Eternity Clock , Washington was among the major cities where Dalek s were deposited to via transmat . ( GAME : " The Eternity Clock " )