1928
Emily establishes the Pomegranate Club in Clichy (Paris)
Penicillin discovered
Kellogg-Briand Pact -- Emily attends signing
The Pomegranate published

1929
Emily moves The Pomegranate Club to St. Pol-sur-Mer
Depression begins
Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms

1930
jet engine patented
Pluto discovered
Empire State Building

1931
Emily meets Gabrielle D'Annunzio
Emily travels to Lake Garda to stay with D'Annunzio
Emily commutes between St. Pol-sur-Mer and Italy

1932
Atom split
James Chadwick: discovery of the neutron

1933
Nazis win German election
Emily meets Sir Randolph Richard Ruddock and Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, Il Duce at Lake Garda

1934
Night of the long knives
Stalin purges being
Roosevelt elected US President (1933-45)
Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer

1935
Italy invades Ethiopia
German Jews lose citizenship

1936
Edward VIII abdicates
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Germans occupy Rhineland

1937
Sino-Japanese War begins (1937-1945)
Picasso: Guernica

1938
Sudetenland occupied by Germany
Fission discovered
Nylon patented
D'Annunzio dies of cerebral hemmorage
Emily moves to Ireland (Co. Kerry)