Chronology

Welcome to the Encyclopedia of the Monarchy of the North, a kingdom with its capital in Oporto, and the Portuguese Republic, with its capital in Lisbon, which narrates the war and its antecedents between these two forces, in the period from 1918 to 1922.

In the ‘Complete Chronology’ tab you have access to the official chronology of this civil war fueled by Port wine, due to the North having developed technology based on ethanol. In the ‘Stories’ section we can see all the encyclopedic entries in chronological order, contributed by all the participants who collaborated in the construction of this immense mosaic-novel.

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1918

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

November, 11
End of World War I.

1919

January, 18
Beginning of the Versailles Treaty in Paris.

January, 19
Implantation of the Monarchy of the North in Porto.

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”.

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, 16
King Dom Manuel II (historical figure) still condemns the insurrection until Paiva Couceiro (historical figure), the effective ruler of the Monarchy of the North states: “We will have a king, even that he shall be another king.” This message is trusted to the first agent of the new monarchic intelligence service, The Department, which escapes the republican naval blockade.

February, 18
The Russian scientist Ilyallyich Mechnikov (historical figure), a guest at the Pasteur Institute of Porto 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, 25
The King arrives at Coruna, 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 attitude of Spanish troops, sent to stop the monarch, causes a nationalistic fury in the Galicians, resulting in a bloodbath in Santiago de Compostela.

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

March, 8
Triumphal arrival of Dom Manuel II. The Department deploys two attempts on the monarch’s life from its republican counterpart, The Prevention Police (historical fact).

March, 11
Spain officially declares war on the Monarchy of the North.

March, 12
Mechnikov presents his hidden ace: production of biofuel from Port wine, based on a new yeast species, the Saccharomyces monarchica, and bellic vehicles, true heirs to World War I tanks, the Mechas.

May, 1
The Winepunk Civil War is reaching new peaks.

June, 12
The high number of casualties inflicted on the Republican Army forces Lisbon to engage in tactics to prevent the South from joining the Monarchy of the North.

June, 23
Spanish attempt to conquer Braganza (Battle of Bottelon), defeated by the joint forces of Portuguese armies and Galician militias.

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 but only two years later).

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 but only one year later) and collaborates with the Portuguese republicans.

January, 19
Celebrations of the first year of the Monarchy, shadowed by rumors of Spanish invasions along the coast. First parade of Mecha prototypes.

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, and the monarch, who widowed in 1919, embarks on a journey to the USA, to fight depression and gain 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.

March, 5
The king returns, with Mary Pickford and Thomas Townsend Brown.

April, 21
Royal wedding between the King and Mary Pickford.

July, 14
Thomas Townsend Brown starts to develop his concept of Biefeld-Brown effect (historical but only one year after) for the Monarchy.

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.

November, 10
England finally decides to help the Monarchy and invades the Spanish-controlled part of Galiza, establishing a new British government there. Secretly, the Order of Saint George, a monarchic secret society related to the Department, tries to stop the King from accepting this help.

1921

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.

1922

April, 23
Saint George’s Day, the new patron of the Monarchy. The day the Monarchy of the North ends. The reasons are still disputed, but above the Douro River, all land disappears, and an Iberian Atlantis lies in ruins at the bottom of the sea, the leftover of the Monarchy of the North.