EastEnders

Disasters in Walford

• 1985: Reg Cox is murdered by Nick Cotton in the very first episode of EastEnders.
• 1986: Andy O'Brien is hit and killed by a truck. Angie Watts fakes her illness to hold on to husband 'Dirty Den', but he figures this out and delivers a divorce on Christmas Day.
• 1988: Lou Beale passes away of old age.
• 1989: Dirty Den ostensibly meets his end after he is shot at the canal banks by a man weaving a bouquet of daffodils.
• 1990: Charlie Cotton dies in a lorry accident; the Mitchells arrive.
• 1991: Grant Mitchell and Sharon Watts marry and take over the pub.
• 1992: Mark Fowler returns after a few years, and confesses to his parents that he has contracted HIV; while Grant is in prison, his brother Phil and his wife Sharon begin a steamy affair.
• 1993: Roly the Poodle is run over by a lorry, and dies.
• 1994: Grant Mitchell discovers that the woman he is marital to, Sharon Watts, is having an affair with his brother, Phil. On Phil and Kathy Beale's engagement party, he walks into the pub and plays a tape casette Sharon recorded revealing the details of one point in their affair.
• 1996: Cindy Beale hires a hitman to kill her husband Ian, so she can be with her lover/Ian's half-brother, David Wicks. She flees to Italy with two of her children but David stays in England after dumping her at the airport.
• 1998: Cindy gives birth to her lover, Nick's, daughter in prison and dies. Her daughter is named Cindy after her and goes to live with Cindy's mother and sister.
• 1999: Relative newcomer Steve Owen murders deranged ex Saskia Duncan on Valentine's Day with a heavy ashtray, and blames DJ Matthew Rose. Grant goes missing after he drives his car into the River Thames; on New Year's Eve, Ian Beale marries Melanie Healy after telling her his daughter, Lucy, has cancer (he overheard her saying she didn't love Ian and that she'd only marry him if Lucy was truly ill as they suspected). She discovers that he lied so she'd marry him, and leaves him as the millenium starts.
• 2001: Steve Owen and Mel Healy wed, but in a whodunnit, Phil is shot on his doorstep. The shootist turns out to be Phil's ex, Lisa Shaw. Mel is kidnapped by Dan Sullivan, who is framed by Phil. In revenge for all her husband's lies after she is released, Mel burns down the E20. Chinny the Turkey is run over at Christmas. On New Year's Eve, after months of abuse, Little Mo Slater finally snaps and smashes abusive ex-husband Trevor Morgan in the head with an iron.
• 2002: Steve Owen dies after his car crashes and explodes in flames. His widow , Mel, is crushed when she discovers that he was sleeping with Sam Mitchell behind her back and had secretly sold their house and club. Mel was then arrested in a drugs scam. She realised that Steve had forged her signature on documents that led to the drugs, leaving her in the frame. She discovers she was pregnant and flees to Portugal while on bail; Little Mo goes to court, and is sent to prison for attempted murder but, she gets out again and becomes engaged to Billy Mitchell. In Trevor Morgan's finale, he dies in an explosion as the result of a housefire started by himself on Halloween. Jamie Mitchell is run over and killed on Christmas Day.
• 2003: Dennis Rickman shoots gangster Jack Dalton after discovering he ordered the death of his father, Den Watts. Dalton admits that Den actually survived and fled abroad, but this doesn't stop Dennis killing him. 'Dirty' Den Watts returns after fourteen years of faking his death, and he sets up Phil Mitchell in a robbery.
• 2004: Billy Mitchell blows up Angie's Den but also rescues Vicki Fowler from the fire. On Christmas Day, Den tells Zoe Slater to fake a pregnancy with Dennis's child to stop him leaving with his adoptive daughter, Sharon. He admits that he doesn't truly love Vicki, and as a result, both of his daughters go to America.
• 2005: In a bid to cover up Zoe's 'pregnancy', they sleep together to make her pregnant to keep up with the pretence of their child. Dennis catches them in bed, tells Chrissie (who keeps the information to herself) and tracks down Sharon. Zoe aborts Den's child, and she, Chrissie and Sam Hunter all confront Den in The Vic. Den confesses to everything, unaware that the only person he truly loved, his adoptive daughter, Sharon, is hiding in the other side of the pub. She appears, tells him that her father died a long time ago and flees. An enraged Den attacks Chrissie for taking away the one precious thing he had. Zoe hits Den over the head with an iron doorstop to protect Chrissie. She and Sam exit the room and Den grabs Chrissie's leg. She picks up the doorstop and delivers a fatal blow (secretly watched by Sam), but allows Zoe to believe that she killed him. Sam wants The Vic back or she'll blow Chrissie's cover, and after a few months, she tells Zoe that Chrissie murdered Den. Zoe leaves for Spain, and Sam smashes up Den's grave and his body is discovered, with the intention of serving Chrissie her just deserts. This backfires, and Chrissie frames Sam, who ends up in prison.