2003

Events

 * 14th January - The inquest into Ray Mullan's death takes place.
 * 17th January - Wilf Butler attempts suicide.
 * 21st January - Ray Mullan's funeral takes place.
 * 23rd January - Zoe Tate goes into labour.
 * 24th January - Zoe Tate gives birth to a daughter.
 * 28th January - Katie Sugden is mugged by a gang of youths.
 * 31st January - Cain Dingle discovers his cousin Charity Tate is Debbie Jones' biological mother after Debbie shows him a photo of her birth mother.
 * 3rd February - Syd Woolfe is hospitalised when Emily Kirk reverses into the ladder he is standing on.
 * 5th February - Cain Dingle tells Debbie Jones that her mother is Charity Tate.
 * 14th February - Marlon Dingle and Tricia Fisher marry.
 * 16th February - Terry Woods returns from his holiday with a young woman in tow. Bob Hope is shocked to discover that the young woman is his daughter Dawn. (First appearance of Dawn Hope)
 * 17th February - Bob Hope's ex-wife and Dawn Hope's mother, Jean arrives in the village. (First appearance of Jean Hope)
 * 26th February - Debbie Jones' adoptive mother Pat dies.
 * 10th March - The Marsden family move into the village, but their van breaks down on arrival. (First appearances of Ronnie, Frances, Alistair, Paul, Elaine and Siobhan Marsden)
 * 13th March - Alistair Marsden "collapses" from a "heart condition".
 * 18th March - Terry Woods and Dawn Hope marry.
 * 3rd April - An attention seeking Ollie Reynolds takes an overdose.
 * 16th April - Jerry Mackinley takes the £8,000 for the church roof and flees the village. (Final appearance of the character)
 * 27th April - Tricia Dingle leaves for India to complete a Bollywood film. Her husband Marlon decides to join her.
 * 28th April - Dawn Woods discovers she is pregnant.
 * 4th May - Marlon Dingle returns to the village when he is refused access into India, only to find Paul and Siobhan Marsden in his house.
 * 23rd June - Victoria Sugden collapses with a ruptured appendix.
 * 24th June - Victoria Sugden has an operation to have her appendix removed.
 * 25th June - A fight between Ronnie Marsden and Jack Sugden breaks out when Jack confronts Ronnie's daughter-in-law Siobhan over the misdiagnosis and Jack brings up Ronnie's affair with Louise Appleton.
 * 9th July - Diane Blackstock is arrested for her drunk and disorderly behaviour. When Louise Appleton tries to intervene, she is arrested too.
 * 11th July - Jean Tate is rushed to hospital after a lamp falls on her and hits her head.
 * 16th July - Scott Windsor reveals himself to be the father of Zoe Tate's daughter Jean.
 * 25th July - Continuing his revenge against Scott Windsor, Chris Tate has Scott's garage torched.
 * 18th August - Chris Tate is diagnosed with a brain tumour.
 * 22nd August - Chris Tate is told his brain tumour is terminal.
 * 4th September - Chris Tate hires a man to run over Cain Dingle. The man misses Cain and runs over Shadrach Dingle instead.
 * 17th September - Chris Tate dies; committing suicide by poisoning his wine in order to frame his wife Charity for his murder.
 * 21st September - Charity Tate is arrested for her husband Chris' murder.
 * 29th September - Robert Sugden and Elaine Marsden are involved in a car accident.
 * 7th October - Cain Dingle calls the police on his cousin Charity Tate when she is arrested for the murder of her husband Chris whilst trying to flee with their daughter Debbie.
 * 9th October - Andy Sugden discovers a baby-faced stranger named Daz asleep in his bed. (First appearance of the character)
 * 10th October - Andy Sugden visits his father Billy in prison. Billy confirms that Daz is, indeed, Andy's half-brother.
 * 16th October - Chris Tate's funeral takes place. Zak Dingle returns from Chile.
 * 19th October - Dawn Woods gives birth to a son.
 * 21st October - Just two days after the birth of his son, Terry Woods suffers a stroke.
 * 27th October - Robert Sugden confesses to Elanie Marsden he was driving the car when it was crashed after Elanie spot a bruise on Robert's chest.
 * 28th October - Ronnie Marsden attacks Robert Sugden after learns he was the driver not Ronnie's daughter Elanie.
 * 25th November - Robert Sugden and Katie Addyman kiss while Katie is engaged to Robert's brother Andy.
 * 27th November - Tricia Dingle returns from India.
 * 19th December - Marlon Dingle accidentally tells his wife Tricia about his one-night stand with his cousin Charity.
 * 24th December - First appearance of Aaron Livesy.
 * 31st December - A storm hits Emmerdale. Ashley Thomas and Louise Appleton crash their car in the river when swerving to avoid a fallen tree.

Real life events

 * 10th May - Marlon and Tricia Dingle's failed wedding plans wins 'Best Single Episode' at The British Soap Awards.
 * 28th August - Conor Lee (TJ Woods) born.