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    Santiago's lifespan

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    Ibrahim and Guzman have and affair

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  • Bayardo San Román comes into town

    "Bayardo San Román, 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).
  • Bayardo and Angela meet

    "On the other hand, all the versions agreed that Angela Vicario and Bayardo San Román had seen each other for the first time on the national holiday in October" (29).
  • Angela gets beaten by her mom

    Bayardo San Román returned Anegla back home where her mother started beating her. "The only thing I can remember is that she was holding me by the hair with one hand and beating me with the other with such rage that I thought she was going to kill me, Angela Vicario told me" (46).
  • Santiago wakes up @5:30 to wait for the bishops arrival

    "Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on" (3). "Santiago Nasar told her that he'd have some later, and he asked her to tell Divina Flor to wake him up a five-thirty and bring him a clean change of clothes" (68).
  • The Vicario brothers tell everyone about their murder.

    Many people don't believe the Vicario brothers are going to kill Santiago because there just to good of people or they were joking around because they were so drunk. Others think that the Vicario brothers are just doing their service and protecting their sister. "The Vicario brothers had told their plans to more than a dozen people who had gone to buy milk, and the had spread the news everywhere before six o'clock" (58).
  • The bishops boat arrives after four o'clock

    "When the bishop's boat bellowed, almost everybody was up to receive him and there was very few of us who didn't know the Vicario Twins were waiting for Santiago Nasar" (58).
  • Vicario brothers enter Faustino Santos butcher shops

    The Vicario brothers entered Faustino Santos butchery shop so they could get their knives sharpened. "Faustino Santos, a butcher friend, saw them enter at three-twenty, when he had just opened up his innards table... they sharpened them on the grindstone," (51).
  • Colonel Lázaro Aponte confiscates the Viacrio brothers knives

    Everyone was telling Colonel Lárazo Aponte the Vicario's brothers intentions. He saw them in Clotilde Armenta's store when around five o'clock. "Nor did he interrogate them concerning their intentions, but took away their knives and sent them off to sleep" (56).
  • Santiago Nasar and Lucas Enrique go sing to the Newlyweds

    Santiago had the idea to sing to them but he didn't know that only Bayardo San Román wad the only on their. "It was he who got the idea, at almost four o'clock to go up to the widower Xiu;s hill and sing for the newlyweds...It didn't occur to us that there was no one there" (66).
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    Bayardo and Angela's marriage

    (44-46) "The formal activities ended at six in the afternoon"
  • Santiago's murder

    Monday (3) "On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning."
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    Twins in jail

    "In the panopticon of Riohacha, where they spent three years awaiting trial because they couldn't afford bail" (49)
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    Angela writes letters to Bayardo

  • Narrator get married to Mercedes Barcha

    (43-44) "I had proposed marriage to Mercedes Barcha as soon as she finished primary school, just as she herself would remind me fourteen years later."
  • Bayardo comes back to Angela

    "Well he said, Here I am" (95).
  • 27 years after Santiagos murder

    "Plácida Linero, his mother told me twenty-seven years later" (3).