2020

## Events

* 1st January - A flashback to Christmas Day 2019 reveals that Martin Fowler and Linda Carter united to stage Keanu Taylor's death for the Mitchells. Isaac Baptiste makes his first appearance on the Square after a phone call from his mother, Sheree Trueman.
* 3rd January - Martin takes Karen to Stansted Airport to say her goodbyes to Keanu after confirming he is alive. Lee Carter leaves Walford again at the end of a short stay with his family.
* 10th January - Honey Mitchell’s eating disorder is discovered by her husband Billy when he catches her making herself vomit.
* 13th January - Louise Mitchell tells Lisa Fowler that Keanu is dead.
* 14th January - Mick and Linda Carter win Best Pub 2020 - the prize is a boat party on the River Thames.
* 17th January - Sonia Fowler steals £8,000 from Dot Branning.
* 20th January - Linda tells Sharon Mitchell that she and Martin framed Keanu's death.
* 23rd January - Sharon stitches Phil Mitchell and Ben Mitchell up to the police after finding the phone containing the evidence. Dotty Cotton finds out that Sonia stole Dot's money and that Dot was responsible for her father's death.
* 24th January - Lisa, Louise and baby Peggy leave Walford for a new life in Portugal.
* 27th January - Leo King falls from the balcony of the Prince Albert. The Panesar brothers' mother, Suki Panesar, moves onto the Square.
* 6th February - Bobby Beale successfully converts to Islam.
* 7th February - Keanu returns to the Square wanting Sharon to run away with him while Linda starts divorce proceedings against Mick.
* 14th February - A confrontation between Leo and Whitney Dean at No.25 results in Leo being stabbed.
* 17th February - Mick agrees to cover Whitney over Leo's death but later backtracks. Linda finds herself helpless on the boat with the water rising at rapid pace in the lower deck after her foot gets stuck in an industrial kitchen unit when the boat crashes. Mick finds her and stays with her.
* 18th February - Ian Beale locks Dennis Rickman Jr. in the locker room on the lower deck of the boat but returns to free him when the boat crashes. However, he loses they keys among the water and cannot find them. Bobby is hospitalised after being attacked in a racial abuse incident. Peter Beale returns to the Square for the first time since 24th February 2015.
* 20th February - Phil and Keanu come face-to-face on the boat. They fight, which results in the boat crashing into a nearby junk ship. Callum Highway falls into a rubbish dump at the warehouse as he tries to find his way out.
* 21st February - Dennis drowns as a result of the boat crash, despite Ian rescuing him from the locker room. Mick frees Linda from the boat and she later accepts she is an alcoholic. Sharon gives birth in the funeral parlour and then learns Dennis has died. She breaks down and banishes Keanu from the Square. Whitney hands herself into the police.
* 25th February - Jay Brown and Lola Pearce learn Ben is deaf from the boat crash. He goes to the hospital and is offered a cochlear implant.
* 27th February - Jean Slater is free of cancer. Her boyfriend, Daniel Cook, later dies in the Square gardens. Sharon contemplates suicide. Callum is found at the warehouse.
* 2nd March - Keegan Butcher-Baker causes a stir at Walford General after believing he's at the receiving end of racial misjudgement after a conflict with a thief who stole his wife's wedding ring.
* 5th March - Lola discovers she's pregnant.
* 6th March - Dark times arise for Whitney as she faces court and is denied bail for Leo's murder, while Jean and her friends scatter Daniel's ashes at the allotments.
* 9th March - Suki's family learn she has lied about having cancer.
* 12th March - Lola has an abortion. Whitney hallucinates in her prison cell.
* 17th March - Sharon hands Kayden over to Karen, not wanting her own son anymore.
* 30th March - Denny's funeral takes place and Phil returns to the Square.
* 31st March - Phil hands himself in to the police for the boat disaster. While the Carters decide it's time to leave The Vic.
* 13th April - A house party which Vinny Panesar holds at the flat ends in disaster when the police are called and Keegan is arrested.
* 14th April - Keegan and Tiffany are kicked from Ted Murray's flat after being caught out subletting.
* 20th April - Stuart Highway proposes to Rainie Branning and she accepts.
* 21st April - Michaela Turnbull kidnaps Whitney. Sharon heads to Australia to see Michelle and Vicki Fowler.
* 28th April - Bobby is found unconscious at Ruby's after taking drugs.
* 4th May - Isaac learns that Patrick is his biological father. Gray Atkins rescues Whitney from Michaela.
* 5th May - Kush Kazemi discovers Jean has not been taking her medication, so decides to get her lithium prescription from the pharmacy and crush the tablets into her food.
* 12th May - Jean collapses in the market. Keegan uploads video footage proving he did not throw a brick at a police car on the night of Vinny's house party on social media.
* 18th May - Jean makes her family homeless after learning Kush inadvertently poisoned her with the lithium tablets he put in her food.
* 25th May - Sharon unexpectedly returns from Australia and starts having doubts about giving Kayden to Karen.
* 1st June - Ben and Phil successfully carry out a warehouse heist, raising Phil the money he needs to buy The Vic off the Carters.
* 8th June - Phil orders Sharon to move out of his house when she chooses Kayden over him.
* 9th June - Whitney misinterprets Gray's behaviour around her and kisses him.
* 16th June - Sharon buys The Vic off the Carters.
* 7th September - Dotty finally confesses to Sharon that Ian was responsible for Dennis's death. Chantelle Atkins starts divorce proceedings against Gray.
* 10th September - Vinny knocks Martin unconscious in the Minute Mart after hitting him over the head with a fire extinguisher after being caught stealing from the club in collaboration with Ruby Allen to take out an insurance claim, unbeknownst to Martin.
* 18th September - After years of torment and abuse, Chantelle finally tells Gray that she is leaving him, which results in him thrusting her backwards onto the dishwasher and into some upward-pointing knives. He leaves her to die as he concretes his alibi before phoning an ambulance.
* 21st September - Stacey returns to the Square after it's revealed that she's the culprit behind Ruby's suspicious bank transactions after being informed by Kat about Ruby and Martin's relationship.
* 25th September - Denise Fox learns that, Raymond Dawkins, her three-year-old son that she gave up for adoption in 2017, is in hospital after the adoptive family were involved in a car crash and both parents were killed.
* 29th September - Rainie and Stuart get married, with Rainie later revealing she is pregnant.
* 2nd October - Max Branning kisses Linda during a bingo night at the Prince Albert.
* 5th October - Frankie Lewis reveals she is Mick's daughter.
* 12th October - Stacey learns Martin and Ruby got married whilst they were away on holiday. Frankie discovers Mick was the victim of abuse from Katy Lewis, her mother and his care worker, when he was 12-years-old.
* 15th October - Whitney is found not guilty of murdering Leo. Gray struggles with the guilt of killing Chantelle and plans a murder-suicide at No.1, but is caught by Shirley Carter, who talks him out of it.
* 22nd October - Stacey is attacked by a hooded figure on Turpin Road.
* 23rd October - Denise agrees to work with Phil to get custody of Raymond from his gangster grandmother, Ellie Nixon, who is demanding £250,000 from Phil in return for his son. Kheerat and Stacey have sex.
* 29th October - Honey goes on a date with Paul Skeggs. He spikes her drink during it and goes to rape her, but is stopped by Jay.
* 30th October - Jay supports a traumatised Honey. Kush loses the Slater family home by betting it on a poker game with Suki.
* 5th November - Rainie learns she has suffered a phantom pregnancy after being knocked over by Keegan on his moped.
* 6th November - Mick comes face-to-face with Katy.
* 10th November - Tiffany agrees to be a surrogate for Rainie and Stuart. Keegan has hidden doubts over the agreement.
* 17th November - Ben, Kat, Kush, Phil and Shirley carry out a heist at 9 Novem House.
* 27th November - Kat and Kush flee the Square after Jack discovers a wanted Kush hiding in the attic of No.25.
* 4th December - Ian Beale is attacked by an unknown assailant in The Vic and left for dead. Prime suspects were Tina Carter, Ben Mitchell, Suki Panesar, Bobby Beale, Max Branning, Rainie Highway, Peter Beale and Stuart Highway.
* 10th December - Ian and Sharon wed at Ian's hospital bed.
* 22nd December - Jay and Honey share a kiss, which Billy walks in on.
* 25th December - Chelsea Fox and Lucas Johnson return. Phil is revealed as the assailant who assaulted Ian in The Vic - an attack instigated by Sharon. Jean finds a lump on her breast. Stacey kisses Martin.
* 26th December - Tina works out that Gray murdered Chantelle.
* 28th December - Gray murders Tina and disposes of her body away from the Square.
* 31st December - Mick phones Samaritans and comes to terms with the fact that Katy Lewis sexually assaulted him when he was 12-years-old.

## Real life events

* 18th March - Due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak filming was postponed, and therefore, the number of episodes broadcast each week was reduced to two on Mondays at 8.00 pm and Tuesdays at 7.30 pm.
* 16th June - For the first time in its 35-year history, *EastEnders* takes a hiatus after running out of new episodes to broadcast.
* 7th September - After nearly three months off-air, *EastEnders* returned to BBC screens under the new established "series two" and under the influence of enhanced and visual effects after strict government guidelines.
* 10th December - *EastEnders* star Barbara Windsor (Peggy Mitchell) died.

## See also

* EastEnders in 2020
* Category:2020 episodes