1978

==Events==
*Tina Dingle is born.
*12th January - Matt Skilbeck proposes to Dolly Acaster.
*7th February - Gypsy Jed breaks into Emmerdale Farm but is caught by Matt Skilbeck.
*23rd February - Chas Dingle is born to Shadrach and Faith Dingle.
*5th March - Linda Glover is born to Ned and Jan Glover.
*14th March - Eileen Pollock gives birth to a stillborn son. Father Eric Pollock never gets to meet him.
*16th March - While Ian Hepton, Rod Blake and Clive Hinton are in a mine, it explodes, leaving Ian injured and knocking Clive and Rod unconscious.
*6th April - Jessica McAllister is born to Bernard and Angharad McAllister.
*27th April - Pip Coulter goes missing.
*2nd May - Steve Hawker breaks into 3 Demdyke Row and steals Joe Sugden's guns.
*4th May - Pip Coulter is reported as a missing person by her parents, However, later Amos Brearly and Henry Wilks are held hostage at The Woolpack by Steve Hawker and Pip.
*9th May - While Steve and Pip are running from the cops, they enter a barn with Sam Pearson. When PC Edwards enters the barn, Steve threatens to shoot Sam. Annie offers to trade her car for their gun, which he accepts.
*11th May - Will Coulter attacks his wife Pam, leaving her hospitalised.
*13th May - Nicola Blackstock is born to Rodney and Maureen Blackstock.
*16th May - First appearance of Seth Armstrong.
*18th May - Antony Moeketsi and the schoolchildren discover a skull.
*25th May - Steve and Pip are arrested in Liverpool.
*30th May - Sam discovers the skull found was of his great-great-grandmother.
*8th June - A funeral is held for Hannah.
*13th June - Pip is released on bail.
*20th June - Tom Hawker discovers that Pip is pregnant with his grandchild after finding a letter from her.
*22nd June - Phyllis Acaster and Leonard Purwick marry.
*29th June - Matt and Dolly marry, as do Pip and Steve.
*7th July - Ruby Haswell is born to Lindy Haswell.
*14th September - Frankie Zorelli gets into a car accident.
*19th September - Donald Hinton finds out his son has been arrested for smuggling drugs.
*13th October - Paul Marsden born.
*17th October - Henry Wilks discovers his aunt has died.
*19th October - Matt collapses.
*26th October - Marian Wilks returns to the village. (First appearance of the character since 1975)
*7th November - Some kids sets fires on Trevor Thatcher's land. One of them burns a building with pesticides in it, which kills the fish at Tony Vine's fish farm.
*16th November - Trevor catches Seth & Sam poaching on his land. Marian returns to Rome. (Last appearance of the character until 1987)
==Real life events==
*7th October - Susan Duerden (Claudia Nash) is born.
*29th June - Emmerdale Farm takes a break and returns 5th September.
==See also==
*Emmerdale in 
*:Category: episodes
==External links==
*1978 at Wikipedia
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