In the time of the butterflies

In the Time of the Butterflies

By kylera
  • Rafael Trujillo

    Rafael Trujillo
    Trujillo was born.
  • Japanese War

    Japanese War
    The Russo-japanese War
  • Trujillo gets arrested

    Trujillo gets arrested
    Trujillo was arrested for being apart of several gangs and committing many crimes
  • Police

    Police
    Tujillo joined the national police
  • Italy

    Italy
    Earthquake in Italy kills 150,000 people
  • Moving Up

    Moving Up
    Trujillo was promoted to commander-in-chief
  • Trujillo becomes Dictatorship

    Trujillo becomes Dictatorship
    President Horacio Vazquez is overthrown and Trujillo becomes dictator
  • Spain

    Spain
    Spain becomes a republic
  • Massacres

    Massacres
    Trujillo and his army kills over 19,000 Haitians in the Dominican Republic.
  • President

    President
    Held office until 1938
  • Minerva

    Minerva turns 12 and goes off to Inmaculada Concepcion
  • President

    President
    Trujillo resumed presidency once again
  • Performance

    Minerva is 18 and her and her friends perform on Independence Day in front of Trujillo
  • Maria Teresa

    Mate is 10 and given a diary from Minerva
  • Burial

    Mate has to bury her diary becuase she mentions Hilda in it
  • Patria

    Patria marries Pedrito at 17 years of age
  • Baby Burial

    Patria buries her baby
  • Proposal

    Jaimito proposes to dede
  • Letters

    Minerva finds Lio's letters in her father's pocket
  • Private meeting

    Trujillo offers release of father for a private meeting with Minerva
  • 2nd Family

    Mate meets her second family at her father's funeral
  • Submarine

    Submarine
    The first atomic submarine was made
  • Minerva Marrage

    Mate is 20 and Minerva gets married
  • Cuban Government

    Cuban Government
    Cuban president Batista resigns and flees. Fidel Castro takes over
  • Cuba

    Patria gets word that Cuba is freed by Castro and she becomes pregnant with Raul Ernesto
  • Emergency

    Trujillo declares state of emergency
  • Arrest

    Leandro gets arrested
  • Arrests

    Manolo, Minerva, and Mate are arrested
  • Package

    Mom, Dede, Noris, and Patria make a care package for the girls in prison
  • Noris

    Noris is arrested and then not long after is released
  • Prison

    Mate receives a diary in prison to start writing
  • Mate

    Mate relizes that she is pregnant. She doesn't want the SIM to take so she plans to abort it
  • Failed Assissanation

    Failed Assissanation
    President Romulo Betancourt sends agents to assassinate Trujillo
  • Assassinated

    Assassinated
    Trujillo is assassinated
  • Life Insurance

    Dede sells life-insurance. Everyone wants to buy from "lucky" sister.
  • Family Property

    Dede is 69 and is taking care of the family property
  • Interview

    Dede arrives at an interview to talk with her sisters