April, 9-10
Battle of LaLys, where the Portuguese Expedicionary Corps suffers severe casualties.

August, 31
Dom António José de Sousa Barroso, Bishop of Oporto, dies, exiled for defying the Republic.

November, 11
End of World War I.

January, 10-13
Uprising of Santarém; failed coup attempt of the ‘Old Republic’.

January, 18
Beginning of the Versailles Treaty in Paris.

January, 19
Implantation of the Monarchy of the North in Oporto. Implantation of the Kingdom’s Governing Council, led by Paiva Couceiro. The North quickly joined the monarchist cause, right up to the Vouga line.

January, 22
Paiva Couceiro (historical figure) leaves Oporto with an armed column, intending to take Coimbra. Taking of Monsanto; monarchist uprising in Lisbon. Paiva Couceiro takes over Ovar.

January, 24
Climb of Monsanto; victorious counter-attack (led by António Machado Santos, the Hero of the Rotunda, illustrious Carbonary) by the Republican forces annihilates monarchist aspirations in Lisbon. Paiva Couceiro takes over Estarreja.

January, 26
Fall of the Republican Government of Tamagnini Barbosa.

January, 27
The monarchic troops are stopped at the Battle das Barreiras (Águeda), but (historical divergence) a quick intervention from a monarchic column from Guarda/Covilhã, commanded by Francisco Rolão Preto (historical figure), comprising the soldiers that escaped Lisbon (fictional) through a forced march across Serra da Estrela, destroys the Republican aspiration to victory. This action would become known as “The March of the Elephants”.

January, 28
Despite the victory, Paiva Couceiro recognises that he had stretched too far his supply lines, as well as his men’s fatigue, and retreates to Albergaria-a-Velha.

February, 4
Along the line Aveiro-Albergaria-Viseu-Covilhã, fortifications and trenches are built on both sides, as the enemies reassemble and review tactics.

February, 13
The representatives of the Northern Monarchy in the border areas are arrested by the Spanish monarchist authorities, at the request of the Lisbon government (namely António Sardinha, in Badajoz) (historical fact).

February, 16
Although the monarchists managed to extinguish some of the Republican centres still in the North, the situation became untenable, with news of strong military preparations in the South. The ‘Paladin’ sends an urgent message to King Manuel II (historical figure), who remains unyielding in his condemnation of the insurrectionary behaviour. ‘We will have a King, even if it’s another King,’ writes Paiva Couceiro, veiledly threatening to support the Legitimist branch. The message is entrusted to the first agent of the Monarchy’s newly-created Intelligence Service, known only as the Department, whom, despite the Republican naval blockade, set sail on an English steamer returning from the Gibraltar mail service.

February, 18
The Moldavian-Ukrainian ascendency scientist Ilya Mechnikoff (historical figure), a guest at the Pasteur Institute of Oporto since the beginning of the year (fiction), offers his help to the Monarchy of the North. Taking into account his experience in warfare at the Pasteur Institute of Paris during World War I (historical fact), the offer is accepted.

February, 22
The Real answer arrives, encoded, by TSF (wireless telephony). The King agrees to return, but fears that he will be prevented by the hesitation of the English. Meanwhile, the Department puts into practice a plan for the monarch’s escape.

February, 24
Paiva Couceiro and Mechnikoff inspect the Monarchy’s defences on the Vouga Line. A first major Republican offensive is repulsed in Covilhã.

February, 25
D. Manuel II arrives at Corunna, benefiting from Galician monarchic contacts. The Department’s plan is to make the King’s arrival as noticeable as possible. As the entourage moves towards the new realm, news of the arrival spreads quickly.

February, 27
The Spanish government’s orders to detain the Portuguese monarch (reports of his passing appear everywhere, most of them fanciful), and the aggressiveness of the troops trying to uncover his hiding place, are a fuse that sets off Galician nationalism. Bewildered by the reaction, a demonstration in Santiago de Compostela, triggered by the arrest of a look-alike of D. Manuel II in the city, results in a bloodbath. The real monarch sets sail again at Cape Finisterre.

March, 1
When the King arrives at Vigo, Galiza has already declared its union with the Monarchy of the North.

March, 3
Faced with the news of the King’s imminent entry into Portuguese territory, the fighting on the Vouga Line intensifies, with several Republican offensives. The monarchist line of defence helds out, largely due to the countermeasures implemented on Mechnikoff’s orders.

March, 6
Foundation of the Comintern, the Communist International.

March, 8
Triumphal arrival of Dom Manuel II in Oporto. The Department deploys two attempts on the monarch’s life from its Republican counterpart, the Prevention Police (historical fact). At the entrance of the Cathedral, the King is met by the guerrilla priest Domingos Pereira.

March, 11
Temporarily relieved of the blockade of arms, food and raw materials by the union of Galicia, the Northern Monarchy is nevertheless condemned to wither away. To make matters worse, Manuel II, under pressure from his advisors, refuses to renounce Galicia’s support, leading Spain to officially declare war on the Northern Monarchy.

March, 12
Mechnikoff presents the production of biofuel based on a new strain of yeast, which he baptises Saccharomyces monarchica, and which will make the Monarchy less vulnerable to the Republican naval blockade. The royal government approves his plans and the order is given to start work immediately.

March, 26
Oporto is affected by the second wave of the Spanish Flu epidemic (historic fact), worsened by the lack proper sanitary conditions. Queen Augusta Vitória led the medical assistance, until she herself fell victim to the disease, dying from it.

May, 1
The rainy season is finally over, Spring has arrived. Oporto is a bustle. The Winepunk Civil War is reaching new peaks.

June, 12
Successive assaults by the Republican troops along the Vouga, all of which were repulsed, end with the mutiny of the besieging troops, due to the high number of casualties. It will take time for the Republic to be able to organise such a campaign again, due to the risk of the South joining the Monarchy.

June, 23
Spanish attempt to take Bragança (Battle of Bottelon), foiled by the joint action of Portuguese forces coming from the city and Galician militias hidden in the Serra de Eixe, where Paiva Couceiro once again distinguishes himself, although ending wounded. Throughout the Summer, the Galician resistance tries to consolidate the mountainous border line, while the Spanish armed forces attempts several incursions.

July, 3
The construction on the Royal Armoury begins, on the outskirts of Oporto. The Royal Institute of Applied Sciences is being built next to the complex.

September, 11
Begins the Rebellion of Catalunha, after confrontations in front of the monument of Rafael Casanova (historical figure) in Barcelona. Foreign press designates the war in the Iberian Peninsula as the Iberian Cauldron.

October
The Rebellion of Catalunha degenerates into a guerrilla movement, as a large-scale action seems impossible. Meanwhile, in the frontier mountains of Galicia, a second line of trenches is built to support the Monarchy of the North.

November, 9
Spanish officers are unable to stop the defeats, one after another, and a coup d’état led by General Primo de Rivera, and sanctioned by King Afonso XIII, establishes a dictatorship (historical fact, althoug antecipated by two years).

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.

April, 5
The air cruiser Vasco da Gama, armed with Biefeld-Brown weaponry, faces Republican airplanes.

July, 22
Spanish defeat in the Battle of Anual, in Morocco (historical fact).

August, 29
After the Spanish surrender in Melilla (historical fact), Spain sends the Legion to fight the Portuguese Monarchy.

April, 23
Saint George’s Day, the new patron of the Monarchy. Ceremonies consecrating the country to St George, with Our Lady ceasing to be the patron saint and queen of Portugal (1646). End of the Monarchy.