1898
The Comet Suit, circa 1898
Safe disaster, London, Ontario
The Safe Bet (play: first & only performace at the Grand Opera
House, London, Ontario)
"The Fantastic Adventure of Emma Lou Chelsea" (Winter, 1898, London
Home Companion)
"The Glort" (Spring, 1898, London Home Companion)
Chesley goes to the Klondike
Chesley goes to South Africa
Brolly Murder: Lord Snivel of Branaugh assassinated June 6, 1898 by
Sean "Chuckles" Slawene
Spanish-American War
HG Wells: War of the Worlds
Curies: radium
1899
The Single Action Facial Hair Removal Device
Turkish Bastard Baster
Afrikaans of East Nissouri (1899, Beaverton Press. Reprinted:
1903 Grunt Imprints, 1962 Blodger Books)
"Fleem The Bell Jar Boy" (Fall, 1899, London Home Companion)
2nd Boer War (1899-1902)
1900
East of Eton (1900, Abdocramp Books)
"The Dueling Duchesses of Delaware" (Fall, 1900, London Home Companion)
"The Great Komoka Kaboo!" (Winter, 1900, London Home Companion)
The Companion Carrier
Flannigan's Digital-Vacuum Device
Plank: Quantum theory
1901
The Nostril Streching and Nose Hair Clpping Device
(Jan. 22) - death of Michael Flannigan, Queen Victoria's funeral
The Ice Creep (1901, Coldstream Books)
The Brutal Butler (1901, Grunt Imprints) as Lady Harriet Bloomer-Schitz
The Harpy's Clutch (1901, Grunt Imprints) as Lady Harriet Bloomer-Schitz
"Norseman!" (Fall, 1901, The Arva Annual)
US President McKinley assassinated
1902
The Arvan Atavists (1902, Grunt Imprints) under the nom-de-plume:
Lady Harriet Bloomer-Schitz,later adapted and re-titled to The Dutton
Cannibals (1905, Buxom Press) under her own name
"The Beastly Bard of Belmont" (Fall, 1902, London Home Companion)
1903
Gaelic Haiku (1903, Titan Yore Finkster Press)
Midas M. Gruntner - congressman, reformer, friend of Teddy Roosevelt,
and a man of notoriously slight build - killed by FBA in 1903
Suffragette movement in UK
Wright bros: Kitty Hawk
1904
Emily's famous speech before the Canadian Congress of Speculationists
Russo-Japanese War
Photoelectric cell
1905
The Party Brat (1905, Squirrel's Nut Press)
The Dutton Cannibals (1905, Buxom Press)
"The Zuzus of Pneu" (Spring, 1905, The Meanderings of the Canadian
Congress of Speculationists)
"Farthingham's Fardle's Bardles" (Fall, 1905, The Meanderings of the
Canadian Congress of Speculationists)
Norway granted independence from Sweden
Einstein: special theory of relativity
1907
Eating Mr. Lumpy (1907, Bone-to-Pick Press)
"In favour of Sinn Fein" (March 12, 1907, London Geezer-Times and
Sunday Shopper)
Triple Entente (Russia, France, Britain)
Electric washing machine
