1908
Emily faces the Privy Council during the 'Chesley Sedition Case'
Cubist movement

1908
Sabine Speculations (1908-1908, Serialized Novel in The Meanderings of the Canadian Congress of Speculationists)

1910
George V King of UK
Halley's Comet
Russell: Principia Mathematica

1912
"Lars of the Bar Car" (Fall, 1912, The Arva Annual)
Ratzan of the Ratz (unpublished)
Emily returns to Chicago, moves to London, England
Amundsen to South Pole
Emily returns to North America following expedition to South Pole
Titanic sinks
ANC formed in South Africa
Balkan Wars (1912-1913)

1913
The Norwegian Cycle (1913, Thundering Hammer Press)
The Warlord of West McGillivary (1913, Bestiary Books)
"Frozen on the Spot Scott" (1914, Grunting Bear Press)

1914
World War I
Joyce: Dubliners

1915
Gallipoli
Einstein: general theory of relativity
WG Griffith: The Birth of a Nation

1916
Battles of Verdun, Somme, Jutland
Irish Easter Rising
Dada movement

1917
"The Windigo of Frigheim IX" (1917, Fixated Editions: purchased but unpublished)
Aantz! (1917, Formidicae Press)
Chesley at the Western Front
Russian Revolution
First jazz recordings

1918
The World Wide Waste (1918, Great Big Asp Printing)
Women's suffrage in UK

1919
The Pestilence (1919, Big Nose Printing)
Chesley circumnavigates the world: stops in Afgahnistan, India, Winnipeg, London, Ontario and finally in England
Chesley helps Lady Astor win seat in parliament
The Gorcharp Retribution
Sinn Fein sets up independent parliament in Ireland
Alcock and Brown fly Atlantic
League of Nations formed
Weimar Republic
Winnipeg general strike
Chesley returns to Ireland to fight British Empire