Tuesday 21 May 2013
Key Facts
EastEnders
EastEnders was first broadcast on 19 February 1985.
It is shown on BBC One on Mondays and Fridays at 8.00pm and on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7.30pm.
Each episode is repeated on the same day on BBC Three at 10.00pm.
The omnibus is on BBC One on Sunday afternoons.
There were initially two episodes of the soap each week.
On 11 April 1994 EastEnders went to three times a week and on 6 August 2001, a fourth weekly episode started.
Births
| Name | Episode date |
| Martin Fowler | 06/08/85 |
| Vicky Fowler | 27/05/86 |
| Ali Osman | 24/03/88 |
| Steven Beale | 26/12/89 |
| Billie/Jasmine O'Brien, daughter of Disa O'Brien | 25/12/90 |
| Sharmilla Kapoor | 18/03/93 |
| Jacques Butcher – off screen | 28/09/93 |
| Lucy and Peter Beale | 09/12/93 |
| Mark Fowler Junior (off screen) | 23/05/96 |
| Ben Mitchell | 21/03/96 |
| Courtney Mitchell | 11/03/97 |
| Natasha Butcher – termination | 27/11/97 |
| Arjun Kapoor | 21/07/98 |
| Cindy Junior | 05/11/98 |
| Liam Butcher | 25/12/98 |
| Chloe Jackson/Rebecca Miller | 26/10/00 |
| Louise Mitchell | 05/11/01 |
| Jack Evans | 11/01/02 |
| Mel Owen's baby (off screen) | Nov/Dec 02 |
| Freddie Mitchell (off screen) | 02/09/04 |
| Bobby Beale | 24/07/03 |
| Vivienne Hobbs | 25/06/04 |
| Aleesha Miller | 28/10/04 |
| Sharon Rickman's baby (off screen) – Dennis Rickman Junior |
04/07/06 |
| Janet (Petal) Mitchell | 05/09/06 |
| Summer Swann | 21/06/07 |
| William Mitchell | 13/11/07 |
| Oscar Branning | 14/12/07 |
| Amy Mitchell | 17/11/08 |
| George Michael Trott | 19/10/09 |
Deaths
| Name | Episode date |
| Reg Cox – murdered: bludgeoned | 19/02/85 |
| Hassan Osman – cot death | 18 & 20/06/85 |
| Stuart – a six-year-old boy patient Andy O'Brien looked after – died of accidental drug overdose | 26/09/85 |
| Andy O'Brien – hit by a lorry | 14/08/86 |
| Auntie Irene (Lofty Holloway's aunt: off screen) – cancer | 18/06/87 |
| Tom Clements – heart attack | 21/04/88 |
| Lou Beale – natural causes | 26/07/88 |
| Trevor Kellow – committed suicide | 14/02/89 |
| Den Watts – murdered: gunshot | 23/02/89 |
| Donna Ludlow – drug overdose | 13/04/89 |
| Benny Bloom (Ethel's old boyfriend: off screen) | 12/09/89 |
| Harry Osborne – ill health | 22/02/90 |
| Charlie Cotton (off screen) – lorry accident | 09/07/91 |
| Eddie Royle – murdered: stabbed | 10 & 12/9/91 |
| Mo Butcher (off screen) – dementia | 31/12/92 |
| Gill Fowler – AIDS | 25/06/92 |
| Stephanie Watson – run over by Pat Butcher | 24/12/92 |
| Pete Beale (off screen) – car accident/murder | 09/12/93 |
| Rose Chapman (off screen) – car accident/murder | 09/12/93 |
| Joe Wallace – Aids | 28/07/94 |
| Debbie Bates – hit by a car | 22/06/95 |
| Arthur Fowler – brain haemorrhage | 21/05/96 |
| Councillor Clive Dixon – committed suicide | 02/10/97 |
| Natasha Butcher – termination due to being diagnosed with spina bifida | 27/11/97 |
| Giuseppe Di Marco (off screen) – stroke | 26/01/98 |
| Cindy Beale (off screen) – childbirth: pulmonary embolism | 05/11/98 |
| Tiffany Mitchell – hit by a car | 31/12/98 |
| Saskia Duncan – killed in a fight with Steve Owen | 14/02/99 |
| Reenie Branning (off screen) | 111/99 |
| Ethel Skinner – euthanasia pact with Dot | 07/09/00 |
| Ashley Cotton – killed in motorbike crash | 14/06/01 |
| Barbara Owen (off screen) – heart attack | 26/07/01 |
| Audrey Trueman – head injury | 06/09/01 |
| Jane Williams – cancer | 11/01/02 |
| Harry Slater (off screen) – heart attack | 04/02/02 |
| Steve Owen – car fire | 01/03/02 |
| Angie Watts – (off screen) cirrhosis of the liver | 08/04/02 |
| Rosa di Marco (off screen) – heart attack | 24/06/02 |
| Tom Banks – house fire | 01/11/02 |
| Trevor Morgan – house fire | 01/11/02 |
| Jamie Mitchell – hit by a car | 25/12/02 |
| Roy Evans – heart attack | 17/03/03 |
| Barry Evans – pushed/murdered | 01/01/04 |
| Laura Beale – accidental fall | 30/04/04 |
| Vivienne Hobbs – placenta abruption | 28/06/04 |
| Jack Dalton – murdered: gunshot | 18/07/03 |
| Geoff Morton – committed suicide | 04/03/04 |
| Mark Fowler (off screen) – HIV-related illness: Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma | 13/04/04 |
| Paul Trueman – murdered (off screen) | 23/12/04 |
| David Collins – Huntingdon's disease/pneumonia | 03/01/05 |
| Andy Hunter – murdered/pushed off a bridge | 18/02/05 |
| Den Watts (second time round) – murdered: bludgeoned | 18/02/05 |
| Neil & Sue Miller (off screen) – car accident | 18/03/05 |
| Leo Taylor – drug overdose | 12/08/05 |
| Nana Moon – aortic aneurysm | 16/12/05 |
| Dennis Rickman – murdered: stabbed | 30/12/05 |
| Nora Swann (off screen) – pneumonia | 16/02/06 |
| Kathy 'Mitchell' Sullivan (off screen) – car accident | 20/02/06 |
| Danny Moon – murdered: gunshot | 31/03/06 |
| Margaret Wilson (off screen) – accidental fall | 01/06/06 |
| Cedric Lucas (off screen) – pancreatic cancer | 13/10/06 |
| Johnny Allen – heart attack | 20/10/06 |
| Evie Brown – breast cancer | 07/12/06 |
| Pauline Fowler – murdered: blow to the head | 25/12/06 |
| Joe Macer – accidental fall | 26/01/07 |
| Jed – coach accident | 09/03/07 |
| Stella Crawford – committed suicide | 20/07/07 |
| Kevin Wicks – car accident | 01/01/08 |
| Frank Butcher (off screen) – cancer | 31/03/08 |
| Dr May Wright – house fire: gas explosion | 18/06/08 |
| Jase Dyer – murdered: stabbed/beaten up | 28/08/08 |
| David (Janine's husband) – heart attack | 19/12/08 |
| Danielle Jones – hit by a car | 02/04/09 |
| Tommy Clifford – kidney failure | 23/04/09 |
| Trina Johnson – impalement/murdered | 03/09/09 |
| Owen Turner – murdered: strangled | 26/11/09 |
| Archie Mitchell – murdered: blow to the head | 25/12/09 |
Marriages
| Name | Episode date |
| George "Lofty" Holloway and Michelle Fowler (Lofty was jilted) | 25 & 30/09/86 |
| George "Lofty" Holloway and Michelle Fowler | 25/11/86 |
| Carmel Roberts and Matthew Jackson | 26/01/89 |
| Pat Wicks and Frank Butcher | 22/06/89 |
| Ian Beale and Cindy Williams | 12/10/89 |
| Sam Mitchell and Ricky Butcher's elopement | 04/07/91 |
| Sam Mitchell and Ricky Butcher's blessing | 25/07/91 |
| Sharon Watts and Grant Mitchell | 26/12/91 |
| Gill Robinson and Mark Fowler | 23/06/92 |
| Phil Mitchell and Nadia Borovac | 08/07/93 |
| Nigel Bates and Debbie Tyler | 12/07/94 |
| Phil Mitchell and Kathy Beale | 27/02/95 |
| Ruth Aitken and Mark Fowler | 20/04/95 |
| April Branning and Nikos (jilt) | 29/04/96 |
| Carol and Alan Jackson (at church) | 30/04/96 |
| Tiffany Raymond & Grant Mitchell | 11/96 |
| Pat Butcher and Roy Evans | 21/11/96 |
| Ricky Butcher and Bianca Jackson | 17/04/97 |
| Tiffany and Grant Mitchell (blessing) | 21/08/97 |
| Terry Raymond and Irene Hills (Louise at church) | 12/05/98 |
| Terry Raymond and Irene Hills (registry office) | 28/01/99 |
| Frank Butcher and Peggy Mitchell | 01/04/99 |
| Ian Beale and Melanie Healy & Barry Evans and Natalie Price |
31/12/99 |
| Melanie Beale and Steve Owen | 01/03/01 |
| Ian Beale and Laura Dunn | 10/05/01 |
| Lynne Slater and Garry Hobbs | 06 & 07/12/01 |
| Dot Cotton and Jim Branning | 14/02/02 |
| Mark Fowler and Lisa Shaw | 29/03/02 |
| Billy Mitchell and Little Mo Slater | 25/12/02 |
| Phil Mitchell and Kate Morton | 05/09/03 |
| Andy Hunter and Kat Slater (jilted) | 13 & 14/11/03 |
| Kat Slater and Alfie Moon | 25/12/03 |
| Barry Evans and Janine Butcher | 31/12/03 |
| Martin Fowler and Sonia Jackson | 10/06/04 |
| Sam Mitchell and Andy Hunter | 16 & 17/9/04 |
| Yolande Duke and Patrick Trueman | 22/07/04 |
| Sharon Watts and Dennis Rickman | 29/08/05 |
| Pauline Fowler and Joe Macer | 17/02/06 |
| Billy Mitchell and Honey Edwards (1st attempt) | 02/06/06 |
| Keith and Rosie Miller (jilted) | 04/07/06 |
| Billy Mitchell and Honey Edwards (2nd attempt) | 21/07/06 |
| Billy Mitchell and Honey Edwards (3rd attempt) | 04/09/06 |
| Ian Beale and Jane Collins (jilted) | 30/11 & 1/12/06 |
| Kevin Wicks and Denise Fox | 27/04/07 |
| Ian Beale and Jane Collins (registry office) | 05/07/07 |
| Phil Mitchell and Stella Crawford (didn't marry) | 20/07/07 |
| Stacey Slater and Bradley Branning | 01/11/07 |
| Rick "Minty" Peterson and Heather Trott | 24/04/08 |
| Roxy Mitchell and Sean Slater | 01/08/08 |
| Dawn Swann and Jase Dyer (they were going to get married but Jase died the night before) | 29/08/08 |
| Janine Butcher and David's Jewish wedding | 18 & 19/12/08 |
| Peggy and Archie Mitchell | 02/04/09 |
| Dawn Swann and Garry Hobbs (didn't marry in the end) |
27/08/09 |
| Denise Wicks and Lucas Johnson | 26/11/09 |
| Syed Masood and Amira Shah | 01/01/10 |
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