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Esteban Trueba pursues Rosa and asks for her hand in marriage.
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Arturo Alessandri Palma is elected presidenct, increasing the power of the middle class.
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Clara is accused by Father Restrepo of being under demonic influence. Opening scene of the novel.
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The body of Uncle Marcos arrives in town alog with a puppy named Barrabas, who Clara adopts.
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A coup is staged against the civilian government, causing years of chaos.
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Rosa is accidentally poisoned after Severo's party. Clara goes into her period of silence.
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Chile adopts a constitution and graduated income tax as well as separation of church and state.
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After visiting his mother and sister, Esteban decides to return to his family estate in Tres Marias. He finds the estate in bad condition, but begins renovating it with the help of the residents.
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Carlos Ibanez del Campo takes power and institutes the carabinero military police.
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After being raped by Esteban Trueba, Pancha Garcia bears a son. This son is the only one of Esteban Trueba's illegitimate children to bear his first name.
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The economy crashes. Chile takes the brunt of the damage.
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Clara interprets a dream that the gardener has. This is when the family discovers her clairvoyance.
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The economic crisis forces Ibanez del Campo from power, replacement governments only last for a few days each.
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Palma's return puts an end to the anarchy.
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Esteban meets his favorite prostitute and loans her money to move to the city.
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On her 19th birthday, clara begins speaking again by announcing that she will marry Rosa's fiance.
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Esteban Trueba's mother dies after telling him to find a good wife at the Del Valle household. Shortly after the death of his mother, Esteban meets Clara.
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After courting, Esteban and Clara become engaged. At the engagement party Barrabas is stabbed in the back and dies in Clara's lap.
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Esteban and Clara build their large house. Clara allows Ferula, Esteban's sister, to move in with them and take care of domestic affairs.
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Attempted Socialist coup is quelled. 60 student demonstrators killed.
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The Radicals were an offshoot of the Liberal party.
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After three years in Italy with Esteban, Clara becomes pregnant with her first child, Blanca.
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Blanca is born by C-Section while Esteban is in Tres Marias.
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Clara begins teaching the peasants about inequality, which enrages Esteban. In addition to that, Blanca meets and falls in love with Pedro Tercero Garcia.
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Tres Marias becomes infested with ants. When told that modern methods would take a few months to work, Esteban goes to Pedro Garcia, who successfully leads the ants out.
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At Tres Marias, Clara becomes pregnant with Jaime and Nicolas and returns to the city. Due to the difficulty of the pregnancy, Clara goes silent for a time. Esteban goes to a brothel in the city and meets Transito Soto again.
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Clara's parents are killed in a car accident. Clara and Ferula recover Nivea's head. Clara then goes into labor and hides her mother's head.
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Videla came to power with the support of the communists and Radicals. Once in power, Videla passed the Law of Permanent Defense of the Democracy after coercion from the United States. This law outlawed communists and moved some of them to concentration camps, including the poet Pablo Neruda.
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Nana moves into the Trueba house to take care of the family while Clara works with the Mora sisters and other mystics.
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After finding Ferula in the same bed as Clara, Esteban kicks Ferula out of the house. Clara is unable to locate Ferula and continues with her mystical activity. Jaime and Nicolas are sent to boarding school.
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Pancha dies, leaving behid a son and grandson, both named Esteban Garcia.
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The former dictator is elected as president on the platform that he is going to eliminate the corruption of the radicals.
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Ferula's spirit visits Clara, signifying her death. Clara, Esteban, and Father Antonio find Ferula dead in the poorest part of the city.
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Pedro becomes more of a revolutionary and has to meet with Blanca in secret.
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The giant earthquake strikes, breaking every one of Esteban's bones. Nana dies of fright. Pedro is banned from Tres Marias shortly after. Blanca learns to work with clay, and Clara starts to dislike Esteban.
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Argentinian forces destroy a chilean lighthouse in disputed territory.
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Communists are no longer outlawed in Chile.
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The largest earthquake ever recorded, measuring a 9.5 on the Richter Scale, has its epicenter south of Santiago near Valdivia. The quake is so great that it also sets off a large volcano.
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Jean De Satigny shows up in Tres Marias. He pursues Blanca's hand in marriage while convincing Esteban to breed chinchillas.
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Montalva is a Christian Democrat and calls his presidency the "Revolution in Liberty".
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Pedro Garcia dies. Esteban throws a large funeral. Pedro Tercero sneaks in. Shortly after, Blanca becomes pregnant, causing Esteban to hit Clara. Esteban swears to kill Pedro Tercero.
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Esteban Garcia leads Esteban Trueba to Pedro Tercero. Esteban cuts off three of Pedro's fingers.
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Upon finding out that Blanca is pregnant, Esteban forces her to marry Jean de Satigny and move up north.
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Esteban gets elected to senate. He grows no closer to his family and begins slowly shrinking.
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Jaime chooses not to associate with his father's politics and changes his last name.
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Jaime helps Amanda abort her baby. At the same time, Blanca's daughter Alba is born.
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Blanca finds out about Jean de Satigny's odd sexual behavior with the Indians and moves back to the city just before Alba is born.
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Nicolas seeks enlightenment in India and comes back a vegetarian.
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Blanca meets Pedro at the park but refuses to run away with him.
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Allende led the People's Unity party, which included communists and socialists. He won by a very small margin. His support of communism and socialism is displeasing to the United States.
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First, Alba is molested by Esteban Garcia who is asking for a job from Esteban Trueba. Clara is ready to die and makes preparations for death before dying on Alba's seventh birthday.
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Esteban builds a mausoleum for his family that he buries Clara in and steals Rosa's body to bury in. Nicolas starts the Union with Nothingness, which gets him banished from the country by Esteban. Esteban has a non-fatal heart attack. Blanca continues to meet with Pedro Tercero. Esteban sleeps with Transito Soto at the Christopher Columbus. Tres Marias falls into ruin.
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Salvador Allende is killed by the military, Augusto Pinochet is placed in power. Leftists and communist are put down and imprisoned or killed by the military regime.
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Jaime is the only one who knows about the relationship. He goes to help one of Miguel's relatives, who happens to be Amanda, so high on substances that she is almost dead.
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The socialists win the election, forcing Pedro Tercero into an important position. Esteban and the conservatives are enraged and begin ruining the country and planning a coup.
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The peasants take over Tres Marias and take Esteban hostage. Pedro Tercero, Blanca, and Alba have him released. Esteban is warned by one of the Mora sisters that there is about to be bloodshed and that Alba is in danger.
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The conservatives stage a coup. Jaime is captured and killed. Blanca hides Pedro Tercero. Esteban expects the dictatorship to end shortly. Miguel joins the Guerillas. Esteban burns down Tres Marias. After the coup, Pedro and Blanca flee to Canada. Alba is captured by the military police and brought to Colonel Esteban Garcia.
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Alba is deterred from killing herself by Clara's spirit. Esteban gets Transito Soto to help him find Alba.
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Esteban dies at 90. Alba is pregnant.