CDF Timeline

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  • Ibrahim and Victoria Affair

    "She'd been seduced by Ibrahim Nasir in the fullness of her adolescence" (Márquez 9)
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    Santiago Nasar's Birth & Death

  • Santiago's Father Dies

    Three years before Santiago's murder (Márquez 7)
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    Twins in Jail

    "In the panopticon of Riohaca, where they spent three years awaiting trial..." (Márquez 49)
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    Angela Writes Letters to Bayardo

    He returns in August, 17 years later
  • Bayardo San Roman Appears

    Bayardo San Roman turned up in town for the first time 6 months prior to murder (Márquez 25)
  • 2 Months Before Wedding

    Bayardo buys Xius’ house. Angela's mother doesn’t let Angela visit the house alone with Bayardo. (Márquez 37)
  • Santiago's Dream

    Santiago Nasar dreamed he was alone in a tinfoil aeroplane flying through the almond trees without hitting anything. He turned 21. (Márquez 3-4, 7)
  • Feb 7th at 12:00

    Newlyweds make their rounds in the yard. (Marquéz. 42)
  • Feb 7th at 18:00

    The formal activities conclude and the guests of honor departed. (Marquéz 44)
  • Feb 7th at 22:00

    Angela Vicario sent for her suitcases from home containing her personal items and clothes. (Márquez 45)
  • Feb 7th at 23:00

    Pura Vicario told the narrator’s mother that she had gone to sleep at this hour. (Márquez 45)
  • Feb 8th 6:05am

    Santiago Nasar ran out of the house (Márquez 4)
    The twins Pedro and Pablo Vicario wake up next to the open milk shop after waiting for three hours to kill Santiago (Márquez 15)
    Girls from the nuns’ school crossed the square (Márquez 16)
  • Twins Acquitted

    "...the twins declared at the end of the trial that they would have done it again a thousand tines over for the same reason" (Márquez 48-49)
  • Narrator Marries Merces Barcha

    "Many knew that in the unconsciousness of the bash, I proposed marriage to Mercedes Barcha, as she had barely finished primary school, just as she would remind me fourteen years later when we got married” (Márquez 49).
  • Bayardo Returns to Angela

    "Well he said, here I am" (Márquez 95)
  • 14 Years After Murder

    Narrator and Mercedes Barcha get married (Márquez 43)
  • 27 Years After Murder

    Narrator writes chronicle, talks to people. (Márquez 3)