2005

Events

 * 3rd January - Max King arrives in the village.
 * 4th January - Tom King dumps Charity Tate at the altar after Sadie King sets her up by showing Tom a photo of Charity kissing her cousin Cain Dingle.
 * 14th January - Alan Turner appears on This Morning to make an emotional plea to Shelley Williams to get in touch if she is watching.
 * 1st March - Charity Tate leaves the village but not before playing a tape at Jimmy King's 40th birthday which confirms her affair with Jimmy and his wife Sadie's set up to stop her wedding to Tom.
 * 17th March - In Emmerdale's 4000th episode, Shelley Williams drowns after a showdown with Steph Stokes.
 * 25th March - Chloe Atkinson is forced to leave the village in disgrace after Chas Dingle exposes to the entire village that Chloe isn't pregnant.
 * 27th April - Paddy Kirk's affair with Viv Hope is publicly revealed by Paddy's wife Emily.
 * 11th May - Katie Sugden leaves the village after being sick and tired of all the arguments in the Sugden family.
 * 6th June - 15 year old Debbie Dingle gives birth to a daughter. The father is later revealed to be Andy Sugden.
 * 24th June - Kelly Windsor returns to Emmerdale after five years away.
 * 30th June - Ashley Thomas' niece Jasmine arrives in the village.
 * 22nd August - On the day of a cookery competition in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Marlon Dingle is arrested over a misunderstanding about his knife, Mack.
 * 23rd August - Donna Windsor and Marlon Dingle announce their engagement at the same time as Donna's mother Viv and (at the time, former) stepfather Bob Hope.
 * 22nd September - Long-running character Zoe Tate leaves Emmerdale in spectacular fashion by blowing up Home Farm and watching the explosion as she drives away, much to the surprise of Tom, Jimmy and Max King.
 * 2nd October - Max King is killed in a car explosion.
 * 30th October - Due to the death of his portrayer Stan Richards earlier this year, long-running character Seth Armstrong dies off-screen on a plane home back to the UK. Kathy Glover (now Brookman) returned with him.
 * 6th November - Ashley Thomas and Laurel Potts marry.
 * 25th December - Belle Dingle and Daz Eden become trapped in a mineshaft after Belle accidentally lets out Daz's pet ferret.

Real life events

 * 11th February - Stan Richards dies.
 * 28th February - Kathleen Beedles replaces Steve Frost as the producer of the show.