1920

January, 7
Pressured on three fronts (Galiza, Catalunha, and Morocco), the Spanish dictatorship hires the German Hugo Stoltzenberg, specialist in chemical weapons (historical fact, though anticipated one year), who collaborates with the Portuguese republicans (historically, he went to Morocco).

January, 19
The celebrations for the first anniversary of the Northern Monarchy are haunted by rumours that Spain is preparing military landings along the Galician coast. Nevertheless, the Royal Armoury is inaugurated with a parade of the first Mecha prototypes (designs by Mechnikoff).

January, 28
Foundation of the Spanish Foreign Legion in Morocco (Tercio de Extranjeros), to fight the Berbers.

February, 11
The actress Gaby Deslys, former love of King Manuel II, dies in Paris. The King is deeply disturbed by these news. The counsellors can’t talk him out of making a trip to the United States in search of financial support.

February, 15
Two Spanish naval fleets are beaten by the new Royal Naval Aeronautics, designed by Portuguese engineers (Battle of the Mackerels), stopping the invasion.

February, 17
Following the amazing victories, the King arrives in the USA in glory, and the American press takes his side, especially due to the animosity from the Hispano-American War of 1889 (historical fact). During his stay, he attractes the interest of several industrialists and scientists.

March, 5
The King returns, with Mary Pickford and Thomas Townsend Brown, as well as several promises of US support.

March, 18
The Lisbon Anthropometric Post is transformed into the Lisbon Biometric Office, supporting the Preventive Police and developing its research work in the field of anthropometry and the manipulation of human characteristics.

April, 21
Royal wedding between the King and Mary Pickford (now known as Queen Maria III of Portugal).

July, 14
Thomas Townsend Brown starts to develop his concept of Biefeld-Brown effect (historical, although anticipated one year) for the Monarchy, at the Royal Armoury.

August, 23
A joint Portuguese-Spanish offensive on three fronts, using new chemical weapons that cause dementia, achieves some gains in the North of Galicia, almost dominates Guarda, and conquers Albergaria-a-Velha to relieve Republican Aveiro, which has become a city of smugglers.

September, 10
A monarchist counter-offensive relieves Guarda and reconquers Albergaria-a-Velha. The North of Galicia remains occupied, with Lugo under fire and Santiago de Compostela under pressure.

October, 19
The Republic is taken by radicals, who promise to end the Civil War.

October, 31
First reports of republican anthropo-modified platoons attacking the monarchic trenches. Covilhã capitulates, but the intervention of the Mechanised Corps, led by Captain Major Júlio da Costa Pinto, ensures the evacuation of the population. To hold off the attack, the monarchist heavy artillery deployed in the Serra da Estrela reduces the city to rubble.

November, 10
Faced with a new offensive that pressures the Monarchy, and with the increasingly good relationship between the Monarchists and the North-Americans, the British finally seem to reach a decision and offer to help the Northern Monarchy by invading the Northern sector of Galicia, held by the Spanish, an area that they would later govern. Behind the scenes, the Order of São Jorge, a secret society of a monarchical military and scientific nature, which is very close to the Department, tryes to ensure that the King does not accept this offer.