cdf timeline

  • Period: to

    Santiago's lifespan

  • Sam Roman turns up for the first time

    "Bayardo San Roman, the man who had given back his bride, had turned up for the first time in August of the year before: six months before the wedding." (Marquez 25)
  • Narrator's mother writes to him

    "My mother wrote to me at school toward the end of August and said in a casual postscript: 'A very strange man has come.'" (Marquez 26)
  • Angela Vicario's wedding

    the day before santiago's murder
  • Santiago's murder

    a monday (page 3)
    killed by the twins
    twins think that Santiago took the twins' sister's virginity
  • Investigating Magistrate arrives to new town

    "Twelve days after the crime, the investigating magistrate came upona town that was an open wound." (Marquez 98)
  • Period: to

    Angela writes to Bayardo

    it had been 17 years
  • Period: to

    Trial of the Vicario brothers

    "That's the way she swears in the brief, but with no further precision of either how or where. During the trial, which only lasted three days," (Marquez 100)
  • Pablo and Pedro Vicario gets out of jail

    "and she went on waiting for three years without a moment of discouradgement until Pablo Vicario got out of jail and became her husband for life." (Marquez 63)
  • narrator marries mercedes

  • Bayardo comes back to Angela

  • Narrator POV