2020

==Events==
*1st January - Victoria Sugden gives birth to a son, whom she names Harry.
*2nd January - Bernice Blackstock ends her relationship with Liam Cavanagh over the phone after Liam confesses that he kissed Leyla Harding.
*9th January - Moira Dingle gets drunk and collapses by the side of the road after almost being hit by a car. She is taken to hospital by the woman driving the car who is then revealed to be Nate Robinson's mum Cara. Sarah Sugden reports her boyfriend Danny Harrington to the police after he attempts to get her to sell drugs.
*13th January - Aaron Dingle is told by Pete Barton that Rebecca White won't let him see his step-son Seb anymore. Graham Foster deletes a mysterious message from Rhona Goskirk's answering machine and later returns home with bloody knuckles. 
*20th January - On the official opening of Hawksford Outdoor Pursuits, Kim Tate declares her love for Graham but after she discovers he has lied to her and secretly been stealing money from her account, she offers to pay Al Chapman to kill him. Later, Graham is murdered by an unknown assailant and Al finds the body.
*21st January - In a flashback to 20th January, Graham reveals Jai Sharma's cocaine addiction relapse to his girlfriend Laurel Thomas who breaks up with him. A coked-up Jai attacks his father, Rishi, and later goes out in the night vowing revenge on Graham. Graham is shown to be hit over the head by an unknown assailant. Jai later returns and collapses outside of Holdgate Farm.
*22nd January - In a flashback to 20th January, Charity Dingle and Vanessa Woodfield's plans to get married are ruined when Graham locks Charity's son Ryan Stocks in a shed after he refuses to continue to help him steal money from Kim's account. Charity and Ryan head out in the night to get back at him. Graham's falls over the edge of a bridge.
*23rd January - In a flashback to 20th January, Andrea Tate discovers that her husband Jamie has hired a private investigator to follow her and asks Graham for dirt on him and his mother Kim. After Graham reveals what he helped Andrea with a fight breaks out between him and Jamie. Furious at Graham, Andrea and Jamie both head out into the night vowing revenge. Graham is hit by a car which causes him to roll off a bridge and Andrea is later in the woods covered in blood. In another flashback, Marlon is furious to find out that Graham and Rhona Goskirk are planning to move to France with his son Leo. At night, while attempting to meet Marlon, Graham gets whacked over the head by Rhona's rapist ex-husband Pierce Harris who is revealed to be out of prison.
*24th January - In a final flashback to 20th January, Pierce is revealed to be the one who killed Graham, hitting him on the head and dragging him through the woods, hitting him with his car so he falls off the bridge before finally finishing him off with a blow to the head after an intense fight. Further flashbacks to 13th January, reveals the mysterious deleted message was a message confirming Pierce's release from prison which prompted Graham to go to Pierce's flat and beat him up.
*28th January - Marlon is charged with Graham's murder. Jai discovers he attacked Jimmy King on the night when Graham was killed.
*4th February - 10-year-old April Windsor runs away from home after discovering she's been lied to about kids not being allowed in prisons, which meant she couldn't go see her father Marlon in prison.
*5th February - Sandy Thomas dies. 
*6th February - Arthur Thomas tells his mother, Laurel, he's the one who's been hurting 8-year-old Archie Breckle. 
*10th February - Pete leaves the village.
*13th February - Pierce takes Vanessa and her 4-year-old son Johnny captive at Mulberry Cottage.
*14th February - Cain Dingle presents his estranged wife Moira with divorce papers on Valentine's Day.
*17th February - Vanessa, who is still being held hostage by Pierce, is revealed to have bowel cancer. 
*20th February - Nate is accidentally shot in the abdomen by Cain, thinking he was a rustler trying to invade Moira's farm.
*25th February - The hostage situation reaches its climax when Rhona comes face to face with Pierce at Mulberry Cottage. Kim arrives and gets knocked out by Pierce who ties her up and leaves her upstairs with Vanessa and Johnny. Rhona managed to win Pierce's trust and uses Kim's phone to live-stream Pierce confessing to murdering Graham, alerting the villagers who call the police. In the end, Rhona outsmarts Pierce, injecting him with a vial strong enough to sedate a bull and he falls to the floor before the police arrive and arrest him.
*27th February - Vanessa tells Charity that she has bowel cancer. Doug Potts leaves the village for Australia.
*2nd March - Pierce pleads guilty to Graham's murder. Kim holds Graham's funeral without telling anyone. 
*5th March - DI Malone arrives in the village to investigate the gun used in Nate's shooting. It is revealed he was the leader for the gang Will Taylor once worked for and starts blackmailing him. 
*9th March - Charity blurts out to Tracy Metcalfe that Vanessa has cancer. 
*11th March - Cain warns DI Malone to leave Will alone but showing he won't be controlled by Cain, Malone kills one of Moira's bulls, showing what he is capable of. 
*12th March - Laurel tells Jai that Arthur has been hurting Archie. 
*18th March - Vanessa's surgery successfully removes the tumour in her bowel but she's told she'll still need chemo as a precaution. 
*19th March - Marlon suffers a minor heart attack and Paddy Kirk accidentally leaves his baby daughter Eve in the car whilst taking Marlon to hospital. 
*23rd March - Eve Dingle, Theo Metcalfe and Harry Sugden's joint christening takes place. David Metcalfe is granted parental responsibility of his son Theo. 
*26th March - Dan Spencer suffers a severe allergic reaction and collapses, hurting his back. He is found by Brenda Walker and Eric Pollard and taken to hospital where a scan reveals that one of the interlocking bones in his spine has fractured, rendering him paralysed from the knees down. Dawn Taylor regains custody of her son, Lucas.
*27th March - Pierce is sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping, false imprisonment and murder. 
*6th April - Billy Fletcher is arrested for assault after being set up by DI Malone. 
*17th April - Sam Dingle and Lydia Hart get married.
*29th April - During an Easter egg hunt, Andrea catches Jamie and Belle Dingle kissing, thereby finding out about their affair.
*1st May - Malone sends Billy and Cain out on a job. Will realises they are being set up.
*4th May - Malone stops Billy and Cain's car and searches their car for drugs but comes up empty. Malone realises Will tipped them off and has him brutally beaten up. 
*8th May - Arthur accidentally sets the tent with his sister Dotty inside on fire during an argument with Archie.
*15th May - Malone reveals that he and Harriet had an affair back in the day and Harriet sleeps with him again, cheating on Will. 
*22nd May - Will proposes to Harriet. 
*25th May - Harriet accepts Will's proposal. 
*27th May - Vinny learns that his friend Alex, actually Paul Ashdale, is his father.
*1st June - Leyla and Andrea expose Jamie and Belle's affair in the Woolpack.
*3rd June - Andrea disappears with Millie after Jamie finds out her part in exposing his affair with Belle.
*8th July - Moira Dingle is run over by Jamie in a hit and run.
*24th July - Will whacks DI Malone over the head with a spanner after Malone tries to plant drugs on him and goads him about his daughter, Dawn.
*27th July - Believing he has killed Malone, Will calls Billy to help him dispose of the body, but whilst they are arguing, Malone comes around and disappears.
*5th August - Tracy learns she's pregnant after injuring her wrist.
*10th August - Jamie admits to Belle that he ran down Moira. Gabby breaks into the Take A Vow office and trashes it.
*12th August - Dawn learns Harriet has been having an affair with DI Malone.
*14th August - Dawn reports DI Malone's criminal activities to the police.
*17th August - DI Malone tries to force Dawn into overdosing on heroin but is interrupted by Harriet who hits him over the head with a kettle.
*19th August - After months of terrorizing some residents, Mark Malone is shot dead by Dawn in self-defense.
*28th August - Victoria receives the news that her grandmother Annie has died.
*9th September - Dawn blurts out to Will that she shot and killed Malone.
*11th September - Will learns Dawn and Harriet buried Malone's body in the graveyard and also that Harriet was having an affair with Malone.
*14th September - Kirin Kotecha returns to the village after being on the run for over four years.
*15th September - Kirin demands Charity pay him £15,000 in return for allowing her to adopt Johnny.
*17th September - Kirin is arrested for the death of Tess Harris four years prior.
*18th September - Annie Sugden's funeral takes place offscreen.
*22nd September - Andrea reveals to Moira that it was Jamie who knocked her down and left her for dead.
*23rd September - Just as Cain is about to attack Jamie with a baseball bat, Belle reveals that her relationship with Jamie is fake by telling him she's phoned the police to report him for Moira's hit and run.
*24th September - Jamie is arrested for causing serious injury by dangerous driving. Later, he threatens his estranged wife Andrea into providing him with an alibi. Manpreet Sharma's sister, Meena Jutla arrives in the village. (First appearance of the character)
*29th September - Lydia is told she doesn't have Huntington's disease.
*1st October - Aaron receives his decree absolute, officially ending his marriage to Robert.
*2nd October - Belle and Nate are arrested after Jamie lies to the police that Belle was responsible for Moira's hit and run and Nate was blackmailing him over it.
*5th October - Paddy overhears Chas propositioning Al.
*6th October - Tracy throws Andrea out of Tug Ghyll after learning Andrea provided Jamie with a false alibi in return for custody of Millie.
*9th October - Victoria discovers her grandmother Annie has left her land that's being used by Butlers Farm in her will. Meena makes a public apology to her sister Manpreet for sleeping with Manpreet's ex-husband. Dawn sleeps with Ellis to hurt Billy as he was getting too close to learning she killed Malone.
*12th October - Dawn tells Billy she slept with Ellis.
*13th October - Victoria scatters Annie's ashes.
*14th October - Mandy purchases the freehold of the salon off Bernice.
*20th October - Nate confesses to knocking down Moira in order to protect Belle who had been set up by Jamie.
*21st October - Paul brutally attacks his son Vinny when Vinny confronts him about stealing to fund his gambling addiction.
*28th October - Charity officially adopts Johnny. 
*29th October - Priya Kotecha informs Paddy that Kirin has been sentenced to 7 years imprisonment for the hit-and-run on Tess Harris. Mackenzie Boyd, Moira's secret younger brother arrives in the village and kidnaps Cain.
*30th October - Vanessa breaks up with Charity via videocall after finding out she kissed Mackenzie the previous day and decides to not return to the village. (Last appearance of Vanessa until 2021)
*2nd November - Moira tells Mackenzie the truth about why she left home at eighteen.
*13th November - Will punches Jamie.
*17th November - The Dingles discover Belle is missing and hasn't been taking her schizophrenia medication.
*18th November - Encouraged by the voice of her dead mother, Belle nearly attacks Tracy with a knife whilst hallucinating that Tracy is Jamie.
*19th November - Cain and Moira reunite.
*20th November - Nate is handed a two year suspended sentence for the hit-and-run on Moira.
*24th November - Al asks Priya to marry him and she accepts.
*26th November - Dawn confesses to Billy that she killed Malone. Laurel discovers she's pregnant. 
*27th November - Harriet destroys the church in a fit of rage.
*30th November - Laurel and Jai learn their unborn baby could have a chromosomal disorder.
*3rd December - Liv has another seizure.
*7th December - To get revenge on Manpreet for meddling in her relationship, Meena tampers with Rishi's heart medication and satnav which results in Rishi coming off the road and crashing.
*8th December - Dawn collapses and is rushed to hospital where she's informed she has pelvic inflammatory disease caused by chlamydia.
*10th December - Laurel and Jai are informed their unborn baby has Down Syndrome.
*15th December - Laurel has a termination.
*17th December - Will and Harriet dig up Malone's body and rebury him on Home Farm land.
*23rd December - Upon hearing that Liv has started driving lessons, Paul reveals to Aaron and Vinny that Liv had another earlier in the month. In retaliation, Liv reveals to Vinny that Paul is still gambling.
*24th December - Paul brutally attacks his son Vinny for a second time when Vinny confronts him about his gambling again.
*25th December - Paddy Kirk cancels his surprise wedding to Chas Dingle when she says Christmas Day weddings are cursed. A scorned Charity bursts into the church dressed for a funeral ready to object to the marriage, however she is shocked to find the church empty. Chas later decides to surprise Paddy by rescheduling the wedding for later that day. Al Chapman's mystery woman is revealed to be Debbie Dingle. (First appearance of Debbie since August 2019)
*28th December - Charity and Mackenzie hijack a lorry load of car parts with the help of Aaron.
==Real life events==
*28th January - Emmerdale won Best Serial Drama at the National Television Awards.
*18th March - ITV announce that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the programme's schedules will temporarily change as of 30th March to five episodes a week, transmitting at 7pm on Monday to Friday - no double episode on Thursday.
*22nd March - ITV announce their decision to suspend production of the soaps for the foreseeable due to the pandemic in order to assure the health and safety of their cast and crew. 
*23rd March - ITV announce a second schedule change, now airing only three episodes a week, transmitting at 7pm on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, starting from 30th March. 
*31st March - ITV announced The British Soap Awards 2020 has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. ITV will instead air a 60-minute special titled "The British Soap Awards Celebrates 21 Years", narrated by Philip Schofield.
*28th April - Emmerdale announces their new initiative The Woolpack Sessions, a one-a-week live broadcast on their YouTube channel featuring cast members singing their favourite songs from their living rooms whilst filming has halted. 
*21st May - Emmerdale announce the show has resume filming after almost 2 months, and that 6 special lockdown episodes will be produced. These will feature only 13 characters, each episode focusing on 2-3 characters and be filmed during 2 weeks under strict social distancing restrictions and with limited crew.
*28th May - Emmerdale announce the lockdown episodes will only air twice a week, Mondays and Wednesdays, starting 8th June.
*5th June - The last episode fully recorded before the shut-down airs on ITV.
*26th June - Emmerdale officially announces they have resumed filming regular episodes.
*30th July - ITV announce that Emmerdale will return to their schedule of six episodes per week, beginning mid-September.
*14th September - ITV officially resumes its normal airing schedule of six episodes per week.
==See also==
*Emmerdale in 2020
*:Category:2020 episodes
==External links==
*2020 at Wikipedia
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