How do I find the last occurance of a number?

Cyankee

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The title really doesn't explain what is going on,

I am writing a story and I use Excel for keeping track of the timeline

What I am trying to do is show how much time has past between the dates in the same chapter, but I also want to see the dates in chronological order.
Some dates get repeated, that's fine, each chapter starts on the same date, but what I want to find is how many days have past between two dates in a chapter.

Example:
I need to know how many days have past from 6/5/2035 and 5/7/2035. Sure I could just point to the cell and be done with it, but, this spreadsheet will change as more chapters are written. Right now there are two lines between the dates I said in the example, but when all is said and done, there will be many more lines there.

I have seen many suggestions, but, I just cannot get them to work.

Date DoWChapterDays Past
05/05/2035Saturday1
05/05/2035Saturday2
05/05/2035Saturday3
05/07/2035Monday2
05/07/2035Monday3
05/21/2035Monday3
06/05/2035Tuesday2
06/20/2035Wednesday3
06/22/2035Friday3
06/25/2035Monday3
07/14/2035Saturday1
07/15/2035Sunday2
07/16/2035Monday1
07/20/2035Friday2
07/25/2035Wednesday2
07/26/2035Thursday2
07/28/2035Saturday1
08/23/2035Thursday2
08/25/2035Saturday2
01/10/2036Thursday2
01/23/2036Wednesday2
04/15/2036Tuesday1
04/25/2036Friday1
06/01/2036Sunday2
06/30/2036Monday2

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Not sure what you're asking for -- maybe this:

A​
B​
C​
D​
1​
Date
Chapter
Days Past
2​
Sat 05/05/2035​
1​
C2: =IFERROR(A2 - LOOKUP(9E+307, A$1:A1 / (B$1:B1=B2)), "")
3​
Sat 05/05/2035​
2​
4​
Sat 05/05/2035​
3​
5​
Mon 05/07/2035​
2​
2​
6​
Mon 05/07/2035​
3​
2​
7​
Mon 05/21/2035​
3​
14​
8​
Tue 06/05/2035​
2​
29​
9​
Wed 06/20/2035​
3​
30​
10​
Fri 06/22/2035​
3​
2​
11​
Mon 06/25/2035​
3​
3​
12​
Sat 07/14/2035​
1​
70​
13​
Sun 07/15/2035​
2​
40​
14​
Mon 07/16/2035​
1​
2​
15​
Fri 07/20/2035​
2​
5​
16​
Wed 07/25/2035​
2​
5​
17​
Thu 07/26/2035​
2​
1​
18​
Sat 07/28/2035​
1​
12​
19​
Thu 08/23/2035​
2​
28​
20​
Sat 08/25/2035​
2​
2​
21​
Thu 01/10/2036​
2​
138​
22​
Wed 01/23/2036​
2​
13​
23​
Tue 04/15/2036​
1​
262​
24​
Fri 04/25/2036​
1​
10​
25​
Sun 06/01/2036​
2​
130​
26​
Mon 06/30/2036​
2​
29​
 
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Thank you! That is perfect! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Had to edit it slightly since the actual spreadsheet is a bit bigger and arranged differently, but it works!
 
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