2004

Events

 * 1st January - A storm that hit on New Year's Eve 2003 starts to take its toll on the village, severely injuring Tricia Dingle and Ashley Thomas and partly destroying the Woolpack.
 * 8th January - Tricia's life support machine is finally switched off. (Final appearance of the character)
 * 22nd January - Charity Tate is sentenced to life imprisonment for the death of her husband Chris four months earlier.
 * 1st February - Diane Blackstock's sister Val Lambert arrives in the village with a black eye.
 * February - March - The King family arrive in Emmerdale.
 * 17th February - Andy Sugden and Katie Addyman marry.
 * 1st March - Charity Tate gives birth to a son.
 * 18th May - Jack Sugden is shot by his own adoptive son Andy, a bullet that was meant for Andy's adoptive brother Robert.
 * 18th June - Edna Birch is accidentally run over by Sam Dingle and left with a broken hip.
 * 6th July - Paul Marsden dies after falling off scaffolding. (Final appearance of the character)
 * 18th August - 20th August - Jack and Victoria Sugden, Val, Nicola Blackstock and Marlon Dingle all go off to Scarborough in search of Diane and Rodney Blackstock and Nicola's boyfriend Simon Meredith.
 * 8th September - Alan Turner accidentally falls down the stairs at the B&B after an argument with his daughter Steph.
 * 21st September - Jack Sugden and Diane Blackstock marry.

Real life events

 * 18th August - Hugh Manning (Rev Donald Hinton) dies.