title: Timeline of Portuguese history (First Republic)
text: # Timeline of Portuguese history (First Republic)
  
  This is a historical timeline of Portugal.
  
  ## First Republic
  
  ### 1910
  
  * October 4 - Beginning of the Republican Revolution. The Republic is proclaimed in Loures, just north of Lisbon.
  * October 5
     * The Republican Revolution, supported by popular uprising and virtually no resistance, is victorious and puts an end to the Monarchy.
     * The last King of Portugal, Manuel II of Portugal, and the Portuguese Royal Family embark in Ericeira for exile in England.
     * The Republic is officially proclaimed in Lisbon.
  
  ### 1917
  
  * Portugal joins the allied forces in World War I.
  
  ### 1921
  
  * The Portuguese Communist Party was founded from the ranks of the Portuguese Maximalist Federation as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
  
  ### 1925
  
  * Bernardino Machado is elected President of the Republic for the 2nd time.
  
  ### 1926
  
  * The 28 May 1926 military coup d'état ends the 1st Portuguese Republic.
  