1920
Prohibition in US
Gandhi dominates Indian Congress
Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence
Chesley transferred to IRA operations in Co. Clare
The burning of Cork, Co. Cork

1921
Chesley returns to Dublin
Irish Independence
Joyce: Ulysses
T.S. Elliot: The Waste Land

1922
Chesley: "The Sportin Man's Lament"
Michael Collins Assasinated
Chesley returns to London, Ontario
M.O. Venery goes insane

1923
Dedication of the Middlesex tower of University College, UWO
Chesley joines the Flying Freak Show, travels to New York
Chesley moves to New York, meets Anais Nin, O'Henry, John Sloan, and Anita Loos

1924
The Serpent Women of Sigma Six (1924, Probosco Books) (the first of six "exotic and speculative tales)
The Titillating Tunnels of Tokyo (1924, Probosco Books)
Thong! Thong! Thong! (1924, Probosco Books)
The Norwegian Necromancer (1924, Probosco Books)
Death of Lenin
Andre Breton: surrealist manifesto

1925
The Feet Feelers of Frigheim Nine 1925, Probosco Books
Buxom Betelgeuse 1925, Probosco Books (the last of six "exotic and speculative tales)
Chesley moves to Paris
Hitler: Mein Kampf
Discover of ionosphere

1926
Goes to Vienna, meets Heisenberg
British General Strike
Emperor Hirohito in Japan
First television
"The Watcher Moves the Tower" inspires "uncertainty principle"

1927
Chesley flies Spad XIII
Stalin comes to power
Lindbergh flies Atlantic
Walt Disney: Mickey Mouse
Chesley begins work on The Pomegranate