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World War 1 starts in Europe
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Trujillo joins the U.S. Marines and gains military training
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Trujillo gets promoted to commander in chief.
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Trujillo leads a group of rebels to overthrow the government
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A Hurricane destroys alot of Sandto Domingo while Trujillo was in charge. He put the place under martial law, and then rebuilt the city
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Trujillo makes a treaty with Haiti. He then changes the Capitol city to Ciudad Trujillo
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Trujillo order the death of over 20,00 Haitians
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Minerva and Patria start school at Inmaculada Concepcion. Dede started in January
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When WWII break out, Trujillo sides with the allies
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Patria gets married to Pedrito Gonzalez
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The batlle of stalingrad happens during WWII
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Enrique Mirabel tells the "fortunes" of his 4 daughters
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The quadruplets (Minerva, Sinita, Elsa, and Lourdes) create a play and perform it for the school and for Trujillo
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Maria Teresa recieves her "Dear Little Book," a diary, from her sister Minerva.
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The ladies in the Mirabel household go on a pilgrimage to Higuey
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Patria's second child, a boy, was born dead
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While Dede and Minerva are taking inventory, Mario, one of the distributors, brings a friend named Virgilio Morales, who is a known revolutionary
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Jaimito asks Dede to marry him, and at the same time, discovers that Lio was hiding in the Mirabels car
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While driving her fathers Jeep, Minerva sees a yellow house with 4 young girls. Eventually she figures out that they are her steps sisters
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At a dance, Minerva is dancing with Trujillo and when he makes an inappropriate gesture, she slaps him
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Enrique Mirabel gets released from prison. He had a heart attaqck while inside.
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Trujillo passes the title of president on to his brother, but remains in absolute power
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Enrique Mirabel died and his funeral occured on this date. His children from the other woman were there
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Maria Teresa discovers that Minerva and her husband, Manolo, are part of a national underground. She decideds to join.
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Fidel Castro liberates Cuba.
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Patria goes on another spiritual journey. The leader is Padre de Jesus.
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While Patria was in the mountains, an invasion occured. She and the other people with her survived, but the people invading were taken out.
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All of the Mirabel sisters husbands get arrested: Pedrito, Manolo, Leandro, an Nelson (Patria's son)
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While at church, Patria heres a message that let everyone know that the church had joined with the people. The SIM started a small war against the church
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Minerva and Maria Teresa are arrested
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Since he was only barely 18 years old, Nelson was released from prison
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He was assassinated by 7 men. Some of them were his own men
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The interviewer arrives and starts to interview Dede. This is how the story starts
