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1 CE
José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán are marry
Úrsula is afraid she will give birth to a child with a pig’s tail. She is not consummate with José Arcadio Buendía. Buendía kills Prudencio Aguilar because Prudencio Aguilar implies that Buendía is impotent. Concerned by the sense of guilt and the ghost of Aguilar, José Arcadio Buendía decides to leave. -
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The founding of Macondo
José Arcadio Buendía establishes Macondo. When gypsies bring technological to Macondo, José Arcadio Buendía immerses himself in scientific study and explore alchemy. He wants to move Macondo to an accessible place. He is planning to find a route connecting Macondo with civilization but he then decides that Macondo is surrounded by water. José Arcadio, the older son of José Arcadio Buendía, is seduced by Pilar Ternera. After Pilar pregnant, José Arcadio leaves Macondo with a young gypsy girl. -
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The Expanding of Macondo and the insomnia
Úrsula tries to find José Arcadio and leaving behind her newborn girl, Amaranta. Five months later, she discovers a route connecting Macondo with civilization. It became a prosperous town, with craft workshops and business road. Úrsula is busy with her business. Arcadio, the son of José Arcadio and Pilar, and Rebeca, an orphan girl join the family. Rebeca brings insomnia into Macondo that will cause memory loss. The insomnia is cured when Melquíades the gypsy returns to town bearing an antidote. -
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Rebellion uprising
Remedios and Aureliano are married. Rebeca and José Arcadio are exiled from the house by the outraged Ursula because of a torrid affair. When war breaks out, Colonel Aureliano Buendía becomes the leader of the Liberal armies. He leaves Macondo and joins the national civil war. During the war, he is fathering seventeen children with seventeen different women. Arcadio José becomes a dictator of Macondo. Liberals lose the war. Conservatives retake the town. Arcadio is executed by a firing squad. -
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Colonel Aureliano Buendía’s wars
Colonel Aureliano Buendía is saved from firing squad at the final instant bu his brother, José Arcadio. He launches another uprising. He is able to recapture Macondo and other coastal territories. -
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The concurrent changes in Buendía family
Santa Sofía de la Piedad gives birth to twins fathered by her dead husband, Arcadio; they are named José Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo. José Arcadio dies mysteriously. Rebeca shuts herself up in her house with memories that take the place of people. Amaranta refuses all suitors despite her strong desire not to be alone. After years of living outside tied to a tree, José Arcadio Buendía dies. José Raquél Moncada who is the friend of Colonel Aureliano becomes the mayor of Macondo. -
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The execution of José Raquél Moncada
Colonel Aureliano Buendía refuses to commute the sentence for José Raquél Moncada. All the town’s matriarchs protested. He loses faith in the purpose of the war and effort to convince the Liberals to end the war. When he signs a peace treaty he thinks that he has betrayed both himself and his party, so he attempts suicide. Úrsula, his mother, tries her best to make her son see the hope of life. Colonel Aureliano Buendía is making tiny golden fishes all day and refusing to speak about politics. -
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Blood Carnival
Aureliano Segundo becomes fabulously wealthy by virtue of his livestock’s productivity. José Arcadio Segundo tries to engineer a navigable river passage to the ocean. He promotes a huge carnival in Macondo. Remedios the Beauty is declared queen of the carnival. At the carnival, Fernanda del Carpio arrives, who is a queen escorted by mysterious men. These people started rioting. They killing a lot of revelers by shooting. Aureliano Segundo becomes obsessed with Fernanda. Then, they get married. -
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Connection Macondo with modern world.
Seventeen Aurelianos who are Colonel Aureliano Buendía's illegitimate sons arrive at Macondo to celebrate the anniversary. They receive the cross of ashes on their foreheads and keep the mark until their deaths. Two Aurelianos, Aureliano Centeno and Aureliano Triste, decide to remain in Macondo and build an ice factory. After that, funded by Aureliano Segundo, Aureliano Triste builds a railroad. Macondo citizens feel amazing about the railroad. -
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The banana plantation in Macondo
Foreign capitalists set up a banana plantation in Macondo. With Macondo soon becomes more cosmopolitan, Colonel Aureliano Buendía begins to repent his decision to end the war because Conservatives rise the power of the foreign imperialists. The banana plantation owners set up their own dictatorial police force, which brutally attacks citizens. Colonel Buendía’s threat to start a war. The unnamed assassins kill his seventeen sons. -
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The dual tragedies of Meme’s ruined love
Meme, the first daughter of Aureliano Segundo and Fernanda del Carpio. She falls in love with Mauricio Babilonia, a mechanic working for the banana plantation. Fernanda discovers their relationship and confines Meme to the house. She deduces that Mauricio Babilonia sneaks into the house every night. The guard who is posted by Fernanda in backyard, shoots him, shattering his spine and paralyzing him for the rest of his life. Meme is forced to become a nun in the convent, where is Fernanda lived. -
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The massacre of the striking banana workers
José Arcadio Segundo organizing the banana plantation workers to strike in protest of the inhumane working conditions. The government inviting more than 3,000 of the workers to gather for a meeting with the leadership of the province and to resolve questions. The meeting is a trick. The army killing all the workers with machine guns. The corpses are collected onto a train and dumped into the sea. José Arcadio Segundo was taken for death but not. He jumps off the train and walks back to Macondo. -
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The memory of massacre
Citizens refuse to believe José Arcadio Segundo when he tells them about the massacre. The unrelenting rain falls on the town, destroying any physical traces of the massacre. The government continues to wipe out any surviving union leaders and denies all reports of the massacre. José Arcadio Segundo takes refuge in the gypsy’s old room. The soldiers do not notice him. He is studying Melquíades’ manuscripts. He wants to preserve the memory of the 3,000 who died in the massacre. -
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The unrelenting raining
The rain that begins the night of the massacre does not stop for almost five years. The flood practically erases all trace of the banana company from the land and reduces Aureliano Segundo’s vast fortune to nothing, as all the animals he bred with Petra Cotes die in the flooding. Aureliano Segundo attempts to find the fortune in gold coins that Úrsula has hidden somewhere in the backyard of the house. When the rains finally end, Macondo has suffered a precipitous decline. -
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A child who born with the tail of a pig.
The love affair between Aureliano (II) and Amaranta Úrsula. Their baby, also named Aureliano (III), is born with the tail of a pig. Amaranta Úrsula dies because she bleeds uncontrollably after giving birth. Aureliano (II) seeks comfort in the drink. He forgets about the newborn baby. When he finds the corpse, ants are feeding on it. After he deciphers Melquíades’ ancient prophecies, an apocalyptic wind swirls, ripping the town from its foundations. The history of the Buendías has come to an end.
