1986

Events

 * 2nd January - The Fowlers find Mark in Southend.
 * 30th January - Jan Hammond arrives at the Queen Vic during a drag show (first appearance of the character).
 * 27th February - Angie Watts attempts suicide.
 * 20th March - First appearance of James Willmott-Brown.
 * 8th April - Michelle Fowler agrees to marry Lofty Holloway.
 * 27th May - Vicki Fowler is born.
 * 5th June - First appearance of Carmel Roberts.
 * 12th June - Pat Wicks arrives in the Square.
 * 17th June - Pat tells Pete Beale that Simon isn't his son.
 * 5th August - First appearance of Colin Russell.
 * 14th August - Andy O'Brien is knocked down and killed by a lorry when saving a child.
 * 28th August - Andy O'Brien's funeral takes place.
 * 18th September - Pauline Fowler wins the Glamorous Granny Competition and Arthur Fowler reveals he robbed the Christmas club money.
 * 23rd September - Lofty and Michelle's Stag and Hen Night.
 * 25th September - The wedding ceremony of Lofty and Michelle.
 * 30th September - Michelle jilts Lofty at the altar.
 * 16th October - Angie tells husband Den that she's got a terminal illness and got six months to live and the shows first ever two-hander takes place.
 * 13th November - Arthur is arrested for stealing the Christmas club money.
 * 18th November - First appearance of Barry Clark and Den and Angie take a second honeymoon to Venice only for Den to find out that Jan is there with a man named Dario Chimisso.
 * 25th November - Angie spills the beans to a bartender that she lied about her terminal illness on the Orient Express with Den eavesdropping in the background.
 * 25th December - Den gives Angie the divorce papers and Arthur has a breakdown leading him to smash up the Fowler household.