1960 – First episode airs
1961 – First birth (Paul Cheveski)
1962 – Ken Barlow marries Valerie Tatlock
1963 – Sheila Birtles’ suicide attempt considered too harrowing and rewritten
1964 – Martha Longhurst dies in the Rovers Return
1965 – Number 7 collapses
1966 – Bet Lynch first appears
1967 – Train crashes off the viaduct
1968 – The murder of Steve Tanner
1969 – First colour episode airs
1970 – 1000th episode transmitted
1971 – Valerie Barlow electrocuted
1972 – Deirdre Hunt first appears
1973 – Rita starts work at The Kabin
1974 – First foreign location filming takes place in Majorca
1975 – Warehouse fire
1976 – Hilda Ogden gets her ‘muriel’
1977 – Tracy Langton born
1978 – Ernest Bishop shot in wages snatch
1979 – Lorry crashes into the Rovers
1980 – Nicky Tilsley born
1981 – Ken marries Deirdre
1982 – Queen Elizabeth II opens the new outdoor Street set
1983 – Deirdre and Mike Baldwin’s affair grips the nation
1984 – Elsie Tanner leaves the Street
1985 – Alf Roberts marries Audrey Potter
1986 – Fire at the Rovers Return
1987 – More than 26 million viewers tune in for Hilda’s final appearance
1988 – Mavis Riley and Derek Wilton marry
1989 – Alan Bradley killed by a Blackpool tram
1990 – Rosie Webster and David Platt born
1991 – Raquel Wolstenhulme first appears
1992 – Mike Baldwin and Alma Sedgewick marry
1993 – Reg Holdsworth and Maureen Naylor’s waterbed disaster
1994 – Norris Cole first appears
1995 – Raquel marries Curly Watts in the 35 th anniversary episode
1996 – Jim McDonald hits wife Liz
1997 – The Battersby family arrives
1998 – Deirdre sent to prison
1999 – Ashley Peacock marries Maxine Heavey
2000 – Live episode for the 40 th anniversary
2001 – Steve McDonald marries Karen Phillips
2002 – Gail Platt marries Richard Hillman
2003 – Richard confesses to murder and tries to drown his family
2004 – Maya Sharma sets fire to the Corner Shop
2005 – Katy Harris murders her father Tommy
2006 – Mike Baldwin dies from Alzheimer’s disease
2007 – Tracy Barlow kills Charlie Stubbs and is imprisoned
2008 – Tony Gordon arranges Liam Connor’s death
2009 – Steve marries Becky Granger
2010 – The tram cash live episode for the 50th anniversary
2011 - Carla's rape at the hands of Frank Foster
2012 - Kirsty's domestic abuse of Tyrone
2013 - Rovers' second fire
2014 - Who killed Tina?
2015 - Deirdre's death
2016 - Kylie stabbed to death in the street
2017 - Bethany’s grooming
2018 - Aidan's suicide
2019 - Sinead's cervical cancer
2020 - Geoff's abuse of Yasmeen
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