CDF Timeline

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    Santiago's lifespan

  • Santiago swallows a gold medal

    "medal of gold that Santiago swallowed at the age of four" (75)
  • Santiago's dad dies

    3 years before Santiago dies
  • Bayardo's first appearance

    "the man who has given up his bride, had turned up for the first time in August of the year before: six months before the wedding" (25).
  • Twins in jail

    pg 49
  • Period: to

    Angela writes letters to Bayardo

    17 years of letters until he comes back
  • Angela & Bayardo's wedding

    pg 38-39 describes the marriage.
  • Santiago's Murder

    Monday
    “On the day they were going to kill him" (3)
  • Santiago wakes up

    "On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning" (3)
  • Santiago's autopsy

    "the mayor thought that the body could be kept under refrigeration until Dr. Dionisio Iguarán came back, but he couldn't find a human-sized freezer" (73)
  • Vicario brothers are arrested

    "The Vicario brothers could smell him in the jail cell where the mayor had locked them up until he could think of something to do with them" (78)
  • Narrator marries Mercedes

    14 years after he proposed (43-44)
  • Bayardo comes back to Angela