1990

Events

 * 4th January - Diane Butcher runs away from home, after thinking her family had forgotten her birthday.
 * 20th February - First appearance of Phil Mitchell.
 * 22nd February - First appearance of Grant Mitchell.
 * 6th March - The Butchers attend family therapy after little Janine's excessive behaviour.
 * 27th March - A flashback episode is aired to combine with the story of Diane Butcher running away from home. Scenes of Frank waiting for Diane and their subsequent reunion are interspersed with flashbacks to January showing her leaving home and living rough on the streets are aired.
 * 19th April - Sharon Watts and Michelle Fowler are horrified when a body is dragged out the canal and believed to be Den Watts.
 * 1st May - Den Watts' first funeral takes place.
 * 10th May - Ian Beale, Cindy Williams, Sharon Watts, Simon Wicks and Michelle Fowler all enjoy a meal together.
 * 24th May - Ethel Skinner investigates Nick Cotton after he claims to be a reformed man, but Dot cannot decide if her son is truly a reformed character or the worst thing since Dr Crippen.
 * 12th June - Nick tries to poison Dot after receiving the news that she's won a lot of money.
 * 26th June - Little Janine runs away from home and Pat causing chaos for the Butcher family.
 * 28th June - Kathy Beale finds out that Simon Wicks is the father of Steven Beale when she eavesdrops on a conversation between him and Cindy on the baby monitor.
 * 1st July - Michelle goes to visit Sharon's birth mother, Carol Hanley.
 * 12th July - The Tavernier family arrive on the Square and Sharon encounters her birth mother for the first time.
 * 19th July - First appearance of Sam Mitchell.
 * 31st July - Sharon discovers that Simon is the father of Steven.
 * 2nd August - Cindy tells Ian he's not the father of Steven.
 * 7th August - AFter the news of Steven not being his maternal son, Ian crashes his van in the act of suicide.
 * 21st August - Mark Fowler returns to Walford.
 * 4th September - After months of mysterious behaviour, Mo Butcher is diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
 * 11th September - Ian discovers that Simon is the father of Steven in Devon.
 * 15th November - Grant Mitchell and Sharon go on their first date.
 * 29th November - The Butcher family agrees that Mo will be better living at Frank's sisters' place, Joan Garwood and Mo leaves Albert Square with her.
 * 25th December - In the act of revenge on Simon, Ian crashes a van with them both inside. Disa O'Brien gives birth in a derelict building and leaves the baby on Diane's doorstep.
 * 27th December - Simon and Cindy depart from Walford to stay with Cindy's parents for a while.

External link

 * 1990 at Wikipedia