The house of spirts timeline

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    House of spirts timeline

  • Rosa dies (begining of the books timeline)

    rosa the "beautiful" woman dies in the opening part of the book
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    Historical timeline

  • New Constiution

    A new constitution increases presidential powers and separtes church and state.
  • General Carlos Dictatorship

    General carlos ibanez del campo seizes power and establishes dictatorship
  • Carabineros de chile

    Chilean national police force and gendarmery are formed
  • Great depression

    The great crash of 1929 takes its biggest toll on the country of chile
  • The tacna-arica accord

  • Estaban relizes his sexual appetite

    Estaban rapes a young peasant girl and then decides to let her move in with him as his mistriss and housekeeper
  • Alessandri's relection

    ALessandri is relected for another term as president
  • Pavlo neruda gains international reputaion

    He increases his international reputation with a collection of surrealist poems.
  • Conservative party wins election

    The conservative party wins by intimidation and rewards
  • Estaban's mother dies

    Dona Ester dies, and estaban meets clara
  • Clara stops talking

    She foresees the future during the autopsy and stops talking as a result
  • The union of Clara and estaban

    Clara and estaban are engaged
  • The birth of Blanca

    Blanca is born
  • Seguro Obrero massacre

    A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist movement are assassinated during the Seguro Obrero massacre.
  • The communists, socialists, and radicals introduce economic policies

  • 8.3 Earthquake in Chillan, Chile

  • Love at three

    Blanca falls in love with pedro tercero
  • Temper tantrum

    Clara is pregnant with twins, jamie and nicolas. This enrages Estaban whom goes the whore house, the christopher columbus
  • The rio de janeiro is introduced to chile and argentina

  • Chile severed the contact between Germany and Japan

  • Gabriela Mistral is awarded the Nobel Prize

    She is awarded the nobel prize in literature and becomes the first south american writer to win the prize.
  • Chile declared war on germany

  • Law of permanet defense of the democracy

    This law prohibits the idea of communism and forces any that believes in the idea to be put in concentration camps in pisagua. The poet Pablo Neruda hounded into exile.
  • The national communist party is banned

  • Women granted the right to vote

    Women are granted the right to vote
  • Pablo Neruda publishes Canto General

    He publishes the epic account of south america and its people
  • Love and death, (blanca and pedro)(ferula)

    Blanca shares her feelings toward marriage with Pedro, whom feels similar. Ferula dies that winter as well.
  • Estaban's fury

    Estaban hits clara so hard she never speaks to him again because of the news of blanca's relationship with pedro. He also promises to kill pedro.
  • The Buenos Aires copyright treaty

    Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
  • Alba is born

    The soon to be narrator is born
  • 9.5 earthquake hits southern chile

    The 9.5 earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded, and was known as the great chilean earthquake.
  • Revolution in liberty

    The democrat eduardo frei montalva becomes president
  • Nationalized Copper mines

    The copper industry is nationalized by the Salvador allende administration.
  • Pablo Neruda wins the Nobel prize

    He wins the nobel prize in literature and thus becomes the second chilean writer to win the award.
  • Uruguayan Air force flight 571

    A plane crashes in the andes mountains, near the border between argentina and chile. Only 16 out of the 45 passengers live long enough to be rescued.
  • Salvador appoints agusto pinochet as commander in chief

    Augusto was brought in the cabinet of Salvador's administration and was named the commader in chief of the chilean military
  • alba begins to read the writings of clara

    In the story, it reads in past tense as well as in present. This is alba's present as she reads the writings