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rosa the "beautiful" woman dies in the opening part of the book
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A new constitution increases presidential powers and separtes church and state.
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General carlos ibanez del campo seizes power and establishes dictatorship
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Chilean national police force and gendarmery are formed
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The great crash of 1929 takes its biggest toll on the country of chile
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Estaban rapes a young peasant girl and then decides to let her move in with him as his mistriss and housekeeper
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ALessandri is relected for another term as president
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He increases his international reputation with a collection of surrealist poems.
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The conservative party wins by intimidation and rewards
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Dona Ester dies, and estaban meets clara
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She foresees the future during the autopsy and stops talking as a result
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Clara and estaban are engaged
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Blanca is born
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A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist movement are assassinated during the Seguro Obrero massacre.
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Blanca falls in love with pedro tercero
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Clara is pregnant with twins, jamie and nicolas. This enrages Estaban whom goes the whore house, the christopher columbus
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She is awarded the nobel prize in literature and becomes the first south american writer to win the prize.
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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.
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Women are granted the right to vote
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He publishes the epic account of south america and its people
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Blanca shares her feelings toward marriage with Pedro, whom feels similar. Ferula dies that winter as well.
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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.
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Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
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The soon to be narrator is born
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The 9.5 earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded, and was known as the great chilean earthquake.
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The democrat eduardo frei montalva becomes president
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The copper industry is nationalized by the Salvador allende administration.
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He wins the nobel prize in literature and thus becomes the second chilean writer to win the award.
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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.
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Augusto was brought in the cabinet of Salvador's administration and was named the commader in chief of the chilean military
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In the story, it reads in past tense as well as in present. This is alba's present as she reads the writings