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Events
Event
Ottoman Conquest of the Levant
1516
Event
The Naqib al-Ashraf Rebellion in Jerusalem
1703 - 1705
Event
Acre under Zahir al-Umar al-Zaydani Challenges Direct Ottoman Rule
1746 - 1775
Event
Acre Under Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar
1775 - 1804
Event
Tax Revolt in Jerusalem
1825 - 1826
Event
Ibrahim Pasha in Palestine
October 1831 - 1834
Event
Uprising Against Egyptian Rule in Palestine
April 1834 - August 1834
Event
Establishment of European and American Consulates in Jerusalem
1838 - 1862
Event
International Intervention against Egyptian Rule in the Levant
1839 - 1841
Event
The Tanzimat Are Issued
18 February 1856
Event
Ottoman Land Code, 7 Ramadan 1274
21 April 1858
Event
Ottoman Law of the Provinces: Administrative Reorganization in Syria and Palestine
7 November 1864
Event
Law Granting Foreigners the Right to Own Real Estate in the Ottoman Empire., 7 Safar 1284
10 June 1867
Event
Ottoman Education Law Is Passed
20 September 1869
Event
Jerusalem Area Designated as a Sanjaq
July 1872
Event
Sultan Abd al-Hamid II and the Ottoman Constitution
31 August 1876 - 19 December 1876
Event
Jerusalem Representation in the First and Second Ottoman Parliaments
19 March 1877 - 14 February 1878
Event
The Ottoman Government Sets Out Principles Governing Jewish Immigration to the Empire
24 November 1881
Event
Great Britain Invades and Occupies Egypt
1882
Event
Emerging Palestinian Opposition to Zionist Settlement: al-Yahudiyya Village Against Petah Tikva Settlement
29 March 1886
Event
Administrative Reorganization in Syria and Palestine
March 1888
Event
European Powers Press the Ottomans on Jewish Immigration
2 March 1888 - 4 October 1888
Event
Nine Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine in the 1890s
1890 - 1896
Event
Building of the Jaffa-Jerusalem Railroad Line
31 March 1890 - 26 September 1892
Event
The Ottomans and Sale of Land to Jews in Palestine
26 November 1892 - 3 April 1893
Event
Ottoman Consolidated Regulations on Jewish Residence and Land Purchase in Palestine
29 November 1900 - 28 January 1901
Event
Palestinian Peasants in Tiberias Score a Rare Success Against Zionist Land Acquisition
8 December 1900 - 11 November 1901
Event
France and the Ottoman Empire Sign the Mytilene Agreements
2 November 1901 - 10 November 1901
Event
Establishment of the Anglo-Palestine Company
7 July 1903 - 24 November 1903
Event
Publication of The Awakening of the Arab Nation in Asiatic Turkey by Najib Azoury
January 1905
Event
Emerging Palestinian Identity and Arab Nationalism
1905 - 1914
Event
Establishment of the Rawdat al-Ma'arif al-Wataniyya al-'Uthmaniyya al-Islamiyya in Jerusalem
1906
Event
Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement
1 October 1906
Event
Zionist Evasion of Ottoman Regulations
August 1907
Event
Creation of Underground Bar Giora Group
29 September 1907
Event
Young Turk Revolution
23 July 1908
Event
Establishment of the Arab-Ottoman Brotherhood Society in Istanbul
2 September 1908 - April 1909
Event
Elections Held for Third Ottoman Parliament; Five Representatives from Regions in Palestine
17 December 1908 - 17 January 1912
Event
Establishment of the Qahtani Society in Istanbul
1909
Event
Zionist Attempt to Buy 1.5 Million Dunams in the Jordan Valley
March 1909 - July 1909
Event
Palestinian Members of the Ottoman Parliament Express Opposition to Zionist Objectives
June 1909 - 2 November 1909
Event
Establishment of the Literary Club in Istanbul
July 1909 - March 1915
Event
Enactment of the Ottoman Associations Law
16 August 1909
Event
Formation of the Moderate Liberal Party and the Entente Libérale Party in Istanbul
30 October 1909 - 8 November 1911
Event
Arab Ottoman Parliamentarians Address Minister of Interior
June 1910
Event
Formation of the Young Arab Society in Paris
1911 - 1914
Event
First Major Debate on Zionism in Ottoman Parliament
March 1911 - May 1911
Event
European Powers Renew Pressure on the Ottomans to Ease Zionist Land Acquisition in Palestine
January 1912
Event
Elections Held for Fourth Ottoman Parliament; Five Representatives from Regions in Palestine
18 April 1912 - 5 August 1912
Event
Formation of the Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization in Cairo
December 1912
Event
The Arab Congress Meets in Paris
17 June 1913 - 24 June 1913
Event
A Zionist–Arab Incident in Zarnuqa
23 July 1913
Event
Elections Held for Fifth Ottoman Parliament; Six Representatives from Regions in Palestine
14 May 1914
Event
World War I, the Ottomans Enter the War
1 August 1914 - February 1915
Event
Hussein-McMahon Correspondence: Prelude to the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans
14 July 1915 - 30 March 1916
Event
Jemal Pasha Orders the Public Hanging of Arab Nationalists from the Levant
21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916
Event
The Sykes-Picot Agreement Defines the British and French Spheres of Influence over the Ottoman Arab Provinces
23 November 1915 - 16 May 1916
Event
Start of the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans
10 June 1916
Event
The British Prepare for the Occupation of Palestine
9 January 1917
Event
First Stage of British Palestine Campaign: Gaza Does not Fall
28 February 1917 - 19 April 1917
Event
Second Stage of British Palestine Campaign: From Bir al-Sabi' and Gaza to Jerusalem
31 October 1917 - 9 December 1917
Event
Limited British Advances; Stabilization of the Military Front
21 December 1917 - 21 April 1918
Event
The Fourteen Points of US President Woodrow Wilson
8 January 1918
Event
British Failed Attempts to Conquer Transjordan
21 March 1918 - 4 May 1918
Event
Third Stage of British Palestine Campaign: Completion of the Conquest of Palestine
19 September 1918 - 25 September 1918
Event
British Conquest of Transjordan Is Achieved
22 September 1918 - 27 September 1918
Event
Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City
26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918
Event
General Allenby Issues Guidelines for the Military Occupation of the Levant
23 October 1918
Event
The Ottomans Sign the Armistice of Mudros; Istanbul Is Occupied
30 October 1918 - 13 November 1918
Event
1st Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
27 January 1919 - 10 February 1919
Event
Appointment of the King-Crane Commission
20 March 1919 - 21 July 1919
Event
The Mandate System: Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant
10 January 1920
Event
Nabi Musa Festival: Palestinian Mobilization and Palestinian-Zionist Clashes
2 April 1920 - 9 April 1920
Event
San Remo Conference: Distribution of Mandates
25 April 1920
Event
The Ottomans Sign the Treaty of Sèvres; The Turkish National Assembly in Ankara Rejects It
19 August 1920
Event
Mahlul Land Ordinance
1 October 1920
Event
Mewat Land Ordinance
16 February 1921
Event
Treaty of Lausanne Is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey
24 July 1923
Event
Tension Over al-Buraq/ Western Wall
23 September 1928 - 30 October 1928
Event
White Paper (Amery) on Status Quo at al-Buraq / Western Wall
19 November 1928 - 27 December 1928
Event
Report of the International Commission on al-Buraq / Western Wall
1 December 1930
Event
An Arab National Conference Meets on the Sidelines of the Pan-Islamic Congress
13 December 1931
Event
The Settlement of Tel ‘Amal Is Founded Overnight in the Baysan Region
10 December 1936
Event
Criminal Code Ordinance of 1936
1 January 1937
Event
The Palestine Archeological Museum Opens Its Doors in Jerusalem
13 January 1938
Event
Israeli-Jordanian Clashes
25 July 1956 - 21 August 1956
Event
The General Union of Palestinian Women Is Formed in Jerusalem
15 July 1965
Event
Naturalization in Lebanon and the Casablanca Protocol on the Treatment of Palestinians in Arab States
3 August 1966
Event
Land Law, 5729-1969
17 July 1969
Event
French-Palestinian Agreement on Status of French Institutions Under Palestinian Authority
12 December 1997 - 18 December 1997
Event
Arab and International Support of Palestinian Uprising
30 September 2000 - 7 October 2000
Event
A Lebanese Legislative Amendment Equates Immovable Property Acquisition by Palestinian Refugees with their Resettlement
3 April 2001
Event
Invasion of Nablus: Fierce Resistance
3 April 2002 - 21 April 2002
Event
A Serious Round of Israeli-Palestinian Violence in Gaza
9 March 2012 - 13 March 2012
Event
Trump Peace Negotiating Team to Travel to Middle East
15 June 2018 - 24 June 2018
Event
Israel Prevents US Congresswomen from Visiting the West Bank and Israel
15 August 2019 - 16 August 2019
Event
Hanan Ashrawi Resigns from PLO Executive Committee
9 December 2020
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 4
13 May 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 5
14 May 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 10
19 May 2021
Biographies
Biography
Sa'id al-Karmi
1852 - 1935
Biography
Musa Kazim Husseini
1853 - 26 March 1934
Biography
Nakhla Zurayq
1859 - 21 July 1921
Biography
Ali al-Rimawi
1860 - 1919
Biography
As‘ad al-Shuqairi
1860 - February 1940
Biography
Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi
1864 - 6 August 1913
Biography
Jurji Habib Hanania
1864 - 1920
Biography
Najib Nassar
1865 - 3 March 1948
Biography
Said al-Shawwa
1868 - October 1930
Biography
Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi
1871 - 1942
Biography
Freih Abu Middein
1871 - 1955
Biography
Khalil Baidas
1875 - 9 February 1949
Biography
Isa al-Isa
1878 - 29 June 1950
Biography
Khalil al-Sakakini
23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953
Biography
Abdallah Mukhlis
27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947
Biography
Omar al-Bitar
1880 - 16 June 1946
Biography
Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar
1880 - 1949
Biography
Alfred Roch
1882 - 22 April 1942
Biography
Boulos Shehadeh
1882 - 1 August 1943
Biography
Raghib al-Nashashibi
1882 - 1951
Biography
Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi
1882 - 1958
Biography
Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi
1882 - 29 June 1963
Biography
Tawfiq Canaan
24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964
Biography
Isaaf al-Nashashibi
1885 - 22 January 1948
Biography
Adil Jabir
1885 - 19 December 1953
Biography
May Ziadeh
11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941
Biography
Khalil Abdallah Totah
20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955
Biography
Muhammad Izzat Darwaza
21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984
Biography
Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim
1889 - 1953
Biography
Rafiq al-Tamimi
1889 - 1957
Biography
Awni Abd al-Hadi
1889 - 15 March 1970
Biography
Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali
1889 - 7 July 1973
Biography
Aref al-Aref
1892 - 1973
Biography
Kulthum Odeh
2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965
Biography
Karimeh Abbud
1893 - 27 April 1940
Biography
Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti
1894 - 22 June 1965
Biography
Izzat Tannous
27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993
Biography
Subhi al-Khadra
1895 - 4 July 1954
Biography
Musa Nasir
4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971
Biography
Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi
1896 - 27 September 1951
Biography
Wasif Jawhariyyeh
1897 - 1973
Biography
Mustafa al-Dabbagh
1897 - 1 October 1989
Biography
Musa Alami
8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984
Biography
Anbara Salam Khalidi
4 August 1897 - 1986
Biography
Matiel Mogannam
15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992
Biography
Sadhij Nassar
1900 - 1970
Biography
Zulaykha al-Shihabi
1903 - 13 May 1992
Biography
Asma Tubi
1905 - 1983
Biography
Ihsan al-Nimr
1905 - 21 May 1985
Biography
Najati Sidqi
15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979
Biography
Sophie Halaby
26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997
Biography
Badr Lama
23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947
Biography
Ahmad al-Shuqairi
1908 - 25 February 1980
Biography
Qudsia Khourshid
5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009
Biography
Fouad Nassar
28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976
Biography
Emile Touma
16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985
Biography
Siba Fahoum
1923 - 12 May 2004
Biography
Fatima al-Budeiri
1923 - June 2009
Biography
Samiha Khalil
20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999
Biography
Salma Khadra Jayyusi
16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023
Biography
Samira Azzam
13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967
Biography
Antoine Zahlan
1928 - 1 September 2020
Biography
Hanna Abu Hanna
16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022
Biography
Shafiq al-Hout
13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009
Biography
Nayef Hawatmeh
November 1935
Biography
Naji al-Ali
1936 - 29 August 1987
Biography
Ghassan Kanafani
9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972
Biography
May Sayegh
1941 - 5 February 2023
Biography
Mahmoud Darwish
13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008
Biography
Leila Khaled
9 April 1944
Biography
Hanan Ashrawi
8 October 1946
Historical Media
Document
Ottoman Empire - Administrative Division
1899
Document
Yusuf Diya-uddin Pasha al-Khalidi
1899
Document
The Constitutional School
1909
Document
Jemal Pasha Reviews His Troops
1917
Document
The Haganah Starts Its Offensive
15 August 1947
Historical Texts
Document
Letter from Theodore Herzl to Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi
19 March 1899
Document
Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement
1 October 1906
Document
Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
Document
Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots
10 August 1921
Document
The Supreme Islamic Shari'a Council Order
20 December 1921
Document
League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine
24 July 1922
Document
The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)
10 August 1922
Document
Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)
22 August 1930
Document
Pact of the League of Arab States
22 March 1945
Document
UNGA Partition Plan
29 November 1947
Document
Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on their Military Intervention in Palestine
15 May 1948
Document
Statement by the States, Members of the Arab League, on the Entry of Their Armies in Palestine
15 May 1948
Document
Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance
19 May 1948
Document
Jordan-Israel Agreement: For the Demilitarization of Mount Scopus Area
7 July 1948
Document
Al-Dawayima Massacre, 29 October 1948 An Israeli Soldier Eye-Witness Account
8 November 1948
Document
Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory
15 August 1973
Document
Sixth Arab Summit: Confidential Decisions
28 November 1973
Document
Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program
12 December 1973
Document
UNGA Resolution 3376 (XXX)
10 November 1975
Document
UNGA Resolution 3375 (XXX)
10 November 1975
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 11940
23 January 1976
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 12022
24 March 1976
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 12119
29 June 1976
Document
Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset
20 November 1977
Document
Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement
11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981
Document
Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 15895
1 August 1983
Document
UNGA Resolution 42/210
17 December 1987
Document
UNGA Resolution 42/229
2 March 1988
Document
UNGA Resolution 42/230
23 March 1988
Document
Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)
18 August 1988
Document
Palestinian Declaration of Independence
15 November 1988
Document
UNGA Resolution 43/160
9 December 1988
Document
UNGA Resolution 43/177
15 December 1988
Document
Draft of UNGA Resolution A/44/L.50
29 November 1989
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 21326
31 May 1990
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 1995/394
17 May 1995
Document
Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron
17 January 1997
Document
PLO Negotiating Team Reservations Concerning President Bill Clinton’s 23 December Proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement
1 January 2001
Document
The “Moratinos Non-Paper” on the Outcome of the Taba Talks (21-27 January 2001)
27 January 2001
Document
UNGA Resolution 58/292
17 May 2004
Document
Prime Minister Elect Ismail Haniyeh Presents New Government’s Program To the Palestinian Legislative Council
27 March 2006
Document
President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech
16 July 2007
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 2011/24
18 February 2011
Document
Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict
24 June 2015
Document
Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
28 February 2019
Charts
Document
Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Population Figures
1914 - 1947
Document
Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Birth Rate
1924 - 1948
Document
Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Death Rate
1924 - 1948
Document
Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Natural Growth
1924 - 1948
Highlights
Highlight
Jerusalem
Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City
Highlight
Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine
Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement
Highlight
The Palestinian Novel
Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography
Highlight
The Palestinian Short Story
Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor
Highlight
Palestinian Photographers before 1948
Documenting Life in a Time of Change
Highlight
Preservation of Heritage in Palestine
A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure
Highlight
Palestinian Citizenship in Israel
An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (III)
Explorers (1965-1995)
Highlight
Palestinian Informal Justice
Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism
Highlight
Palestine Police During the British Mandate
Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals
Highlight
Palestinian Cinema
From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression
Highlight
Sumud
Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance
Highlight
Colonization and Dispossession
Zionism's Imagined Geography
Highlight
Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948
A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba
Highlight
World Zionist Organization
Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine
Highlight
Demography and the Palestine Question (I)
1850s-1948
Highlight
Palestinian Emigration (I)
1850s-1967
Highlight
Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule
Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition
Highlight
Palestinian Women in the Labor Market
A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism
Highlight
France and the Palestine Question before 1948
Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism
Highlight
The Palestine Exploration Fund
Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming
Highlight
Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949
Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests
Highlight
Nablus Soap Production
The Decline of an Ancient Heritage
Highlight
The Palestinians in Chile
A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine
Highlight
Jaramana Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
II. British Occupation and Early Mandate
1917-1936
Highlight
I. Ottoman Rule
1516-1917
Highlight
The King-Crane Commission of 1919
Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives
Highlight
The Palestinian Flag
A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity
Highlight
1956 War
The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (I)
Beginners (1795-1955)
Highlight
Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917
Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries
Highlight
Demography and the Palestine Question (II)
1948-2048
Highlight
Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (II)
Pathfinders (1955-1965)
Highlight
Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
Promising Palestine Away
Highlight
Palestine-Lebanon Border
A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens
Highlight
Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982
A Massacre by Proxy
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)
Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)
Highlight
The Palestinians in Peru
A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History
Highlight
Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation
Highlight
Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine
A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact
Highlight
Shatila Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947
Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba
Highlight
Urban Palestine
Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations
Highlight
Turkey and the Palestine Question
Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity
Highlight
Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity
1948-1993
Highlight
Lydda, 9-13 July 1948
A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March
Highlight
The Algerians of Palestine
1830-1948
Highlight
The Bosnians of Palestine
1881-present
Highlight
Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948
A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps
Highlight
Palestine-Egypt Border
A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans
Highlight
Palestinian Music
Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry
Thematic Chronologies
Thematic Chronology
Regulating Palestinian Land
1858 - present
Periods
Period
I. Ottoman Rule
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