Charles Fort: A Fortean Chronology, 1923.

Charles Fort's second iconoclastic book, New Lands, was published in the United States by Boni & Liveright with an introduction by Booth Tarkington.

January

• January 1: Grouping Act - All UK railway companies are grouped into 4 larger companies.
• January 10: Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
• January 11: Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments.
• January 17: Juan de la Cierva invents the autogyro, a rotary-winged aircraft with an unpowered rotor.
• January 18: Elon College's campus is destroyed by a fire.

February

• February 8 :Billy Hughes resigns as Prime Minister of Australia, after the Country Party refuses to govern in coalition with him as the leader of the Nationalist Party. Hughes is succeeded by his Treasurer, Stanley Bruce.
• February 13: An increase of the star Beta Ceti was reported. (Books825)
• February 23: Albert Einstein visits Barcelona, Spain, at the invitation of scientist Esteban Terradas i Illa.

March

• Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on a Paris stage (settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger, and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel). Antonin Artaud plays the part of Tiresias.
• March 1: At a wedding in Bradford, England, guests, in a delirium, drop to the floor unconscious. Four are taken to hospital. (Books852)
• March 1: Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar.
• March 2: Time Magazine hits newsstands for the first time.
• March 9: Vladimir Lenin suffers his third stroke, which renders him bedridden and unable to speak; consequently he retires his position as Chairman of the Soviet government.
• March 17: Lord Carnarvon, associated forever with the opening of the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen's, falls ill. On his estate near Newbury, Hampshire, a naked man was seen running wild, he is often seen but never caught. (Books678)

April

• April 5: Lord Carnarvon dies. The wild man of Newbury ceased to be reported. (Books679)
• April 12: The Kandersteg International Scout Centre comes into existence.
• April 23: The Turkish Council is founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
• April 26: Prince Albert marries Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in Westminster Abbey.

May

• May 7: Mount Etna is active; earthquake in Anatolia. An extraordinary rise and fall in the Mediterranean, at Gibralter, is noted. (Books825)
• May 9: Southeastern Michigan receives a record 6 inches of snow after temperatures plummeted from 62 to 34 degrees between 1 and 6 pm on the previous day.
• May 27: The Ku Klux Klan defies a law requiring publication of its members.

June

• June 9: A military coup in Bulgaria ousts prime minister Aleksandar Stamboliyski (he is killed June 14).
• June 13: China President Li abandons his residence because a warlord has commanded forces to surround the mansion and cut off its water and electric supplies, in order to force him to abandon his post.
• June 16: The storming of Ayan in Siberia concludes the Yakut Revolt and the Russian Civil War.
• June 18: Mount Etna erupts in Italy, making 60,000 homeless.

July

• July 10: Large hailstones kill 23 in Rostow, Soviet Union.
• July 19-20: Pancho Villa is assassinated.
• July 24: The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in the First World War.

August

• August 2: Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States, (1921 – 1923) dies in office and is succeeded by Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929).
• August 13: The first major seagoing ship arrives at Gdynia, the newly constructed Polish seaport.
• August 13: Gustav Stresemann is named Chancellor of Germany and founds a coalition government for the Weimar Republic.
• August 30: Hurricane season began, with a tropical storm northeast of Turks and Caicos.

September

• September 1: The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing an estimated 142,807 people, but according to a Japanese construction research center report in 2005, 105,000 are confirmed dead.
• September 4: In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the first American airship, the USS Shenandoah, takes to the sky for the first time.
• September 8: Honda Point Disaster: Seven U.S. Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast.
• September 13: Military coup in Spain - Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship. Trade unions are banned for 10 years.
• September 17: A major fire in Berkeley, California erupts, consuming some 640 structures, including 584 homes in the densely-built neighborhoods north of the campus of the University of California.
• September 18-26: Newspaper printers strike in New York.
• September 24: Second hurricane of the season, a major hurricane north of Hispaniola.