25 April 1974

The Portuguese Revolution of 25 April 1974 is a chronological turning point in the book’s account: it is recorded before the Alvor Agreement, which created a provisional coalition government in Angola and set a date for independence. The chronology gives the revolution a date but no account of its immediate events or participants.

The Date in the Chronology

The book marks 25 April 1974 with two terse entries: the date itself and the statement that a revolution took place in Portugal. This compressed form records the event as a historical marker rather than presenting it as a narrated scene; it supplies no details about how the revolution unfolded.

From Revolution to the Alvor Agreement

The next dated milestone is 25 January 1975, when the MPLA, FNLA, UNITA, and the Portuguese government signed the Alvor Agreement in Alvor, Portugal. The agreement created a provisional coalition government in Angola and granted the country independence on 11 November 1975. The sequence places the Portuguese Revolution before the negotiated arrangement, but the chronology does not specify the revolution’s direct role in producing the agreement.