CDF Timeline

  • Colombia civilwar

  • Ibrahim Nasar buys a warehouse to convert to a home

    On page 11, "Ibrahim Nasar bought it at a cheap price in order to set up an import store that he never did establish, and inly when he was going to be married did he convert it into a house to live in." Long before the death of Santiago he bought this warehouse for them to live in after the wedding.
  • Bayardo has arrived at the village

    "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 (25). " His first time being mentioned in the book.
  • Bayardo fixed on marrying Angela

    Bayardo looked at Angela for the first time and decided then, that he will marry her. ""When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I am marrying her (29)."
  • Bayardo and Angela meet (Music Box)

    "Angela Vicario and Bayardo San Roman had seen each other for the first time on the national holiday in October... (29)" They meet at at charity bazaar and Bayardo tried to impress Angela by getting so many tickets to win the music box for her then give it to her.
  • Santiago Nasar turns 21

    "He had turned twenty-one the last week of January... (7)."
  • 6:00pm - Everyone leaves wedding

    "The formal activities ended at six in the afternoon, when the guest of honor took their leave (44)."
  • Bayardo 2 hours late to his wedding

    'The only unforeseen suprise was caused by the groom on the morning of the wedding, for he was two hours late in coming for Angela Vicario.. (40)." Why is he so late to a wedding he wanted to happen so bad??
  • 2:00am Brothers drinking with Santiago

    "Vicario brothers were there and they were drinking with us and singing with Santiago Nasar five hours before killing him (45)." Why are they drinking together if they are going to kill him.
  • 3:00am Angela tells brothers about Santiago taking her virginity

    "The twins returned home a short time after before three, urgently summoned by their mother (47)." Shortly after she tells them about Santiago.
  • 3:30am Went to sharpen knifes at the butchery

    "Faustino Santos, a butcher friend, saw them just as they enter at three-twenty..(51)." The Vicario brothers went to the butcher to get their knifes sharpened to go and kill Santiago.
  • 4:30-5:30am Santiago goes to sleep

    "At five-thirty she followed his orders to wake him, but she didn't send Divina Flor... (68)."
  • 5:00am Colonel Lazaro Aponte took the brothers knives

    "Nor did he interrogate them concerning their intentions, but took away their knives and sent them off to sleep (56)."
  • Santiago is killed

  • Vicario brothers smell Santiago

    After they kill Santiago they think everything smells like him and can't get rid of the smell.
  • 17 Years later Bayardo comes back

    "She kept on without quarter for seventeen years (95)."
    Angela kept writing him letters for 17 years in hope that he would come back to her. He eventually came back with all the letters but none of them were opened. Why come back? Why are all of them still closed and if he didn't open any of them then how would he know to come back?