Theory:Timeline - Cybermen

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This page lists **appearances of the Cybermen in the order in which they experienced them**. This timeline is based upon observations of the *Doctor Who* universe and the events that occur during each of these stories.

## Timeline

### Prehistoric Cybermen

* COMIC: *The Dead Heart*
* COMIC: *The Prodigal Returns*
* COMIC: *The Flesh Unbound*
* COMIC: *The Black Sky*
* COMIC: *The Hungry Sea*
* COMIC: *The Dark Flame*
* COMIC: *The Future Perfect*
* COMIC: *The Ugly Underneath*

The Cybermen become extinct.
### Marinus

* TV: *The Keys of Marinus* / PROSE: *Doctor Who and the Keys of Marinus*
* AUDIO: *Domain of the Voord*

Takes place approximately a century after *The Keys of Marinus*.
* PROSE: *The Fishmen of Kandalinga*

Takes place millions of years after *The Keys of Marinus*.
* PROSE: *Doctor Who and the Daleks*
* 2017 - AUDIO: *Beachhead*
* COMIC: *Four Doctors*
* COMIC: *The World Shapers*

Cybermen evolve from the Voord.
### Early invasions

* AUDIO: *Spare Parts*

Modern Cybermen evolve. Lance Parkin hypothesizes that the Collective are Voord.
* 1609 - PROSE: *The Empire of Glass*
* 1873 - AUDIO: *The Silver Turk*
* 1954 - COMIC: *The Good Soldier*
* 1968 - COMIC: *The Cyber Empire*
* COMIC: *Test Flight*
* 1970 - COMIC: *Cyber-Mole*
* PROSE: *Prelude Iceberg*
* 1975 - TV: *The Invasion* / PROSE: *The Invasion*
* AUDIO: *The Isos Network*
* AUDIO: *The Blue Tooth*
* PROSE: *The Piper*
* 1984 - AUDIO: *The Reaping* (end scene)
* 1985 - TV: *Attack of the Cybermen* / PROSE: *Attack of the Cybermen* (Earth scenes)

### After Mondas

* 1986 - TV: *The Tenth Planet* / PROSE: *Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet*

The novelisation inexplicably changes the date the story is set in to 2000.
* 1988 - SP: *The Ultimate Adventure* / AUDIO: *The Ultimate Adventure*
* 1988 - TV: *Silver Nemesis* / PROSE: *Silver Nemesis*
* 1993 (alternate timeline) - COMIC: *Time & Time Again*
* 2000 - PROSE: *Vrs*
* 2006 - AUDIO: *Human Resources*
* 2006, September - AUDIO: *The Gathering*
* 2006, November - AUDIO: *Iceberg*

The survivors of *The Invasion* plan a second invasion.
* 2008 - AUDIO: *The Girl Who Never Was*
* 2021 - AUDIO: *The Harvest*
* 2070 - TV: *The Moonbase* / PROSE: *Doctor Who and the Cybermen*
* 2079 - TV: *The Wheel in Space* / PROSE: *The Wheel in Space*
* AUDIO: *Legend of the Cybermen*

The Cybermen launch a second attack on the Wheel, but are pulled into the Land of Fiction.
* PROSE: *The Janus Conjunction*

Occurs some time during the second half of the 22nd century.
* 2191 - PROSE: *Killing Ground*
* COMIC: *Dreadnought*

Dated 23rd century.
* COMIC: *Junkyard Demon*
* COMIC: *Junkyard Demon II*
* COMIC: *Black Legacy*

### Telos

* 26th century - TV: *The Tomb of the Cybermen* / PROSE: *Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen*
	+ AUDIO: *Return to Telos*

The Cybermen have been assumed extinct for five centuries.
* circa 26th century - TV: *Attack of the Cybermen* / PROSE: *Attack of the Cybermen* (Telos scenes)
* COMIC: *Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman*

### Orion Wars

* 2503 - AUDIO: *Sword of Orion*
* AUDIO: *Kingdom of Silver*

Occurs light years from the Orion war front lines.
* AUDIO: *Keepsake*
* 26th century - AUDIO: *Scorpius*
* 26th century - AUDIO: *Fear*

Takes place roughly six months after *Scorpius*.
* 26th century - AUDIO: *Conversion*
* 26th century - AUDIO: *Telos*

Telos has been destroyed. All stories featuring an intact Telos should be placed before the first series of *Cyberman*.
* 26th century - AUDIO: *Outsiders* / *Terror* / *Machines* / *Extinction*

### The Cyber Empire

* COMIC: *The Coming of the Cybermen*
* COMIC: *Flower Power*
* COMIC: *Masquerade*
* COMIC: *The Time Museum*
* COMIC: *Eskimo Joe*
* COMIC: *The Champion*
* 26th century - PROSE: *Heliotrope Bouquet*
* 2526 - TV: *Earthshock* / PROSE: *Earthshock*
* AUDIO: *Silver Lining*
* AUDIO: *The Crystal of Cantus*
* GAME: *Destiny of the Doctors*
* 2875 - TV: *Revenge of the Cybermen* / PROSE: *Revenge of the Cybermen*
* COMIC: *Exodus* / *Revelation!* / *Genesis!*
* 30th century - PROSE: *Illegal Alien*

The Cybermen are from the 30th century.
* 3286 - WC: *Real Time*/AUDIO: *Real Time*
* COMIC: *Deathworld*
* COMIC: *Kane's Story*
* PROSE: *Warmonger*
* PROSE: *Birth of a Renegade*
* TV: *The Five Doctors* / PROSE: *The Five Doctors*

### Pete's World

* WC: *Tardisode 5*
* TV: *Rise of the Cybermen* / *The Age of Steel*
	+ WC: *Tardisode 6*
* GAME: *Save Paris*
* GAME: *Cyber Assault*
* GAME: *Ghostwatch*
* WC: *Tardisode 12*
* TV: *Army of Ghosts* / *Doomsday*
	+ WC: *Tardisode 13*
* 2007 - TV: *Cyberwoman*
* 2008 - PROSE: *Going off the Rails*
* 2008 - PROSE: *Made of Steel*
* COMIC: *The Power of the Cybermen* / *Drones of Doom* / *Enemy Mine* / *Time of the Cybermen*
* COMIC: *In-Flight Entertainment*
* GAME: *Eye of the TARDIS*
* TV: *The Next Doctor*
* COMIC: *The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who*

### Merged race

*The two races of the Cybermen, the Mondasians and the Cybus Industries Cybermen, slowly merge into one race.*
* 102 - TV: *The Pandorica Opens* / *The Big Bang*
* 19th century - PROSE: *Plague of the Cybermen*
* 2010 - GAME: *Blood of the Cybermen*
* 2011 - HOMEVID: *Up All Night* / TV: *Closing Time*
* 2012 - GAME: *The Eternity Clock*
* GAME: *Worlds in Time*
* GAME: *Legacy*
* TV: *Dark Water* / *Death in Heaven*
* GAME: *Return to Earth*
* GAME: *The Mazes of Time*
* COMIC: *Assimilation²*
* 52nd century, some time after 5145 - *A Good Man Goes to War*
* TV: *Nightmare in Silver*

The Cyber-Wars were 1,000 years ago.
* PROSE: *Status Update*
* TV: *The Time of the Doctor*
* GAME: *The Doctor and the Dalek*

### The far future

* 500,002 - AUDIO: *The Girl Who Never Was*
* 2005 - COMIC: *The Flood*

Highly advanced Cybermen travel back in time to 2005. However, they are unable to convert non-humans.
* COMIC: *Supremacy of the Cybermen*
* PROSE: *Time's Champion*