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Establishment of European and American Consulates in Jerusalem
1838 - 1862
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International Intervention against Egyptian Rule in the Levant
1839 - 1841
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The Tanzimat Are Issued
18 February 1856
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Law Granting Foreigners the Right to Own Real Estate in the Ottoman Empire., 7 Safar 1284
10 June 1867
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Ottoman Education Law Is Passed
20 September 1869
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Jerusalem Area Designated as a Sanjaq
July 1872
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Sultan Abd al-Hamid II and the Ottoman Constitution
31 August 1876 - 19 December 1876
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Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe
1881 - 1884
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The Ottoman Government Sets Out Principles Governing Jewish Immigration to the Empire
24 November 1881
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Great Britain Invades and Occupies Egypt
1882
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France and the Ottoman Empire Sign the Mytilene Agreements
2 November 1901 - 10 November 1901
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Establishment of the Anglo-Palestine Company
7 July 1903 - 24 November 1903
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6th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
23 August 1903 - 28 August 1903
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Publication of The Awakening of the Arab Nation in Asiatic Turkey by Najib Azoury
January 1905
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Establishment of the Rawdat al-Ma'arif al-Wataniyya al-'Uthmaniyya al-Islamiyya in Jerusalem
1906
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Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement
1 October 1906
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Young Turk Revolution
23 July 1908
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Establishment of the Arab-Ottoman Brotherhood Society in Istanbul
2 September 1908 - April 1909
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Elections Held for Third Ottoman Parliament; Five Representatives from Regions in Palestine
17 December 1908 - 17 January 1912
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Establishment of the Qahtani Society in Istanbul
1909
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Zionist Attempt to Buy 1.5 Million Dunams in the Jordan Valley
March 1909 - July 1909
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Palestinian Members of the Ottoman Parliament Express Opposition to Zionist Objectives
June 1909 - 2 November 1909
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Enactment of the Ottoman Associations Law
16 August 1909
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Formation of the Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization in Cairo
December 1912
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The Arab Congress Meets in Paris
17 June 1913 - 24 June 1913
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11th Zionist Congress Meets in Vienna
2 September 1913 - 9 September 1913
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World War I, the Ottomans Enter the War
1 August 1914 - February 1915
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Hussein-McMahon Correspondence: Territorial Issues and Prelude to the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans
14 July 1915 - 30 March 1916
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Jemal Pasha Orders the Public Hanging of Arab Nationalists from the Levant
21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916
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The Sykes-Picot Agreement Defines the British and French Spheres of Influence over the Ottoman Arab Provinces
23 November 1915 - 16 May 1916
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Start of the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans
10 June 1916
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The British Prepare for the Occupation of Palestine
9 January 1917
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First Stage of British Palestine Campaign: Gaza Does not Fall
28 February 1917 - 19 April 1917
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Second Stage of British Palestine Campaign: From Bir al-Sabi' and Gaza to Jerusalem
31 October 1917 - 9 December 1917
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Balfour Declaration Is Made
2 November 1917
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Limited British Advances; Stabilization of the Military Front
21 December 1917 - 21 April 1918
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The Fourteen Points of US President Woodrow Wilson
8 January 1918
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British Failed Attempts to Conquer Transjordan
21 March 1918 - 4 May 1918
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Arrival in Palestine of the Zionist Commission
April 1918
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Appointment of a British Chief Administrator for Palestine
16 April 1918
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Third Stage of British Palestine Campaign: Completion of the Conquest of Palestine
19 September 1918 - 25 September 1918
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British Conquest of Transjordan Is Achieved
22 September 1918 - 27 September 1918
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Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City
26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918
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General Allenby Issues Guidelines for the Military Occupation of the Levant
23 October 1918
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The Ottomans Sign the Armistice of Mudros; Istanbul Is Occupied
30 October 1918 - 13 November 1918
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Proclamations No. 75 and No. 76 on Immovable Property
18 November 1918
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Appointment of the King-Crane Commission
20 March 1919 - 21 July 1919
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Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission
28 August 1919
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The Mandate System: Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant
10 January 1920
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The General Syrian National Congress Proclaims the Independence of the Arab Syrian Kingdom
7 March 1920 - 8 March 1920
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Palin Commission of Inquiry
12 April 1920 - 1 July 1920
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San Remo Conference: Distribution of Mandates
25 April 1920
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Scheduled Second Palestinian National Congress Cannot Meet
15 May 1920
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Palestine Civil Government and Appointment of Herbert Samuel as High Commisioner
1 July 1920
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French Occupy Damascus; Arab Syrian Kingdom Nominally Reduced to Transjordan
14 July 1920 - 31 August 1920
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The Issue of the Administration of Transjordan
25 July 1920 - 31 December 1920
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Mahlul Land Ordinance
1 October 1920
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Advisory Council for Palestine Is Established
October 1920
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Transfer of Land Ordinance
1 October 1920
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3rd Palestinian National Congress Meets in Haifa
13 December 1920 - 19 December 1920
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Signing of a Franco-British Convention on Mandate Boundaries
23 December 1920
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Mewat Land Ordinance
16 February 1921
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Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan
2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921
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Palestine Police Ordinance Is Issued
15 March 1921
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Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir
11 April 1921
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May Day Clashes in Jaffa
1 May 1921 - 7 May 1921
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Palestine Gendarmerie Is Established
1 July 1921 - 24 April 1922
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The Palestinian Delegation Conducts Sterile Negotiations in London
2 July 1921 - 31 July 1922
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Transfer of Land Amendment Ordinance No. 2
8 December 1921
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Regulation Concerning the Supreme Moslem Sharia Council
20 December 1921 - 9 January 1922
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White Paper (Churchill) of 1922 Clarifies the Terms of the Balfour Declaration
3 June 1922
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House of Lords and House of Commons Conflicting Views on Palestine
20 June 1922 - 4 July 1922
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The [Palestine] Arab Executive Committee Orders the Return of its Delegation from London
7 July 1922 - 31 July 1922
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The League of Nations Confirms Britain’s Mandate over Palestine
24 July 1922
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The British Issue a Constitution for Palestine in the Form of an Order in Council; Non-Applicability to Transjordan
10 August 1922
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League of Nations Approves Exclusion of Transjordan Territory from the Jewish National Home
14 September 1922 - 16 September 1922
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1st British Census of Palestine
October 1922
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British-French Demarcation of Line Between Palestine (Including Transjordan) and Syria (Including Lebanon)
7 March 1923
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British Formal and Conditional Assurance to Transjordan's Abdullah
25 April 1923 - 25 May 1923
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6th Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jaffa
16 June 1923
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Treaty of Lausanne Is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey
24 July 1923
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Official Onset of British Mandate for Palestine
29 September 1923
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Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society
21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930
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14th Zionist Congress Is Held in Vienna
18 August 1925 - 31 August 1925
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Correction of Land Registers Ordinance, No. 12
16 February 1926
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The Palestine Gendarmerie Is Disbanded and the Palestine Police Reorganized
1 April 1926
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Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate
20 February 1928
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Land Settlement Ordinance No. 9
30 May 1928
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Tension Over al-Buraq/ Western Wall
23 September 1928 - 30 October 1928
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White Paper (Amery) on Status Quo at al-Buraq / Western Wall
19 November 1928 - 27 December 1928
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al-Buraq / Western Wall: Palestinians Rise up in Protest against Zionist Provocations
15 August 1929 - 29 August 1929
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The British Form a Commission of Inquiry on Disturbances at al-Buraq / Western Wall
13 September 1929
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The British Issue the Criminal Law (Seditious Offences) Ordinance
25 October 1929
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1st Palestine Arab Women's Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
26 October 1929
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General Conference of Palestine Arab Workers, Haifa
11 January 1930
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League of Nations Council Approves the Appointment of an International Commission on al-Buraq / Western Wall
14 January 1930 - 15 May 1930
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Shaw Commission Report on al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances
12 March 1930
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4th Palestinian Delegation to London
1 April 1930 - 23 May 1930
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John Hope Simpson Sent to Palestine to Investigate Questions of Immigration, Land Settlement and Development
2 May 1930
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Hanging of Palestinian Militants
17 June 1930
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White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published
20 October 1930
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The British - International Commission on al-Buraq / Western Wall Submits its Report
1 December 1930
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MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann
13 February 1931
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The [Palestine] Arab Executive Committee Denounces MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann
11 March 1931
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17th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
30 June 1931 - 15 July 1931
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A Conference in Nablus Debates Resorting to Arms
1 August 1931
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2nd British Census of Palestine
November 1931
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An Arab National Conference Meets on the Sidelines of the Pan-Islamic Congress
13 December 1931
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Protection of Cultivators Ordinance, No. 37
31 August 1933
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General Strike and Demonstrations in Palestine
8 October 1933 - 3 November 1933
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Death of Musa Kazim Husseini
26 March 1934
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Oil Pipeline Connecting Northern Iraq to Haifa Opens Officially
January 1935
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The British Issue the Press Ordinance
17 January 1935
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Establishment of the Palestine Arab Party
27 March 1935
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Establishment of the National Bloc Party
4 October 1935
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Death of Shaykh Izzeddin al-Qassam in a Battle with a British Force
12 November 1935 - 21 November 1935
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Joint Memorandum of Palestinian Parties
25 November 1935
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Revival of the Legislative Council Idea
December 1935 - March 1936
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Outbreak of the Great Palestinian Rebellion
15 April 1936 - 30 April 1936
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First Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion
15 April 1936 - 23 July 1937
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Enactment of Emergency Regulations
19 April 1936
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British Violent Repression
May 1936 - June 1936
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British Secure Military Reinforcements and Arm a Jewish Settlement Police
May 1936 - September 1936
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Memorandum of Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner
30 June 1936
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The British Issue the Collective Fines Ordinance
4 August 1936
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Fawzi al-Qawuqji Aids the Great Palestinian Rebellion
25 August 1936
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The Settlement of Tel ‘Amal Is Founded Overnight in the Baysan Region
10 December 1936
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Criminal Code Ordinance of 1936
1 January 1937
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Avner Defense Plan
June 1937
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Peel Commission Report Proposes Partition of Palestine
7 July 1937
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Palestinians Reject Peel Commission Report
23 July 1937
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Second Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion
23 July 1937 - September 1938
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Formation of the Arab National League (ANL) in New York
August 1937 - May 1941
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20th Zionist Congress Meets in Zürich
3 August 1937 - 16 August 1937
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British Commissioner Is Assassinated
26 September 1937
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Arab Higher Committee Is Banned
October 1937 - November 1937
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Appointment of the Palestine Partition (Woodhead) Commission
4 January 1938
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The Palestine Archeological Museum Opens Its Doors in Jerusalem
13 January 1938
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Establishment of Hanita Settlement in Western Galilee
21 March 1938
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Anti-British Operation and British Retaliation in al-Bassa
6 September 1938 - 10 September 1938
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British Military Officers Replace Civilian Commissioners
October 1938
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Third Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion
October 1938 - September 1939
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British "Divide-and-Rule" Policy
November 1938 - May 1939
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Partition (Woodhead) Commission Report Is Published
9 November 1938
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The British Government Rejects the Conclusions of the Partition (Woodhead) Commission
11 November 1938
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London Round Table Conference Convenes
7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939
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Formation of a British-Arab Committee on Hussein-McMahon Correspondence at the London Round Table Conference
15 February 1939 - 16 March 1939
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Killing of Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj Muhammad
27 March 1939
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MacDonald White Paper of 1939: Limited Concessions to Palestinians
17 May 1939 - 23 May 1939
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The Palestine Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper
30 May 1939
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Wave of Irgun Attacks against Palestinians
2 June 1939 - 1 August 1939
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Military Recruitment in Palestine
3 September 1939
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Stern Gang Calls for Alliance with Axis
October 1939
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Land Transfers Regulations
20 February 1940
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Blowing up of SS Patria
November 1940
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Killing of Avraham Stern
February 1942
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Haganah Stockpiles Weapons
March 1943
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British Recommend Partition
December 1943
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Stern Gang and Irgun Start Operations Against British
January 1944 - March 1944
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British Labour Party Favors Transfer of Palestinians
May 1944
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Stern Gang Assassinates Lord Moyne in Cairo
6 November 1944
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Labor Victory in Great Britain
26 July 1945
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Truman and Jewish Immigration to Palestine
31 August 1945
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Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington
September 1945 - December 1947
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The British Mandate Issues the Defence (Emergency) Regulations
27 September 1945
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Coordinated Zionist Anti-British Activism
1 October 1945 - 31 October 1945
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Bevin's Statement on Palestine; Formation of an Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
13 November 1945
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Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine
22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946
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Organized Irgun and Lehi Anti-British Attacks
24 November 1945 - 19 January 1946
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Palestinians Declare Strike to Protest Bevin's Policy Statement of November 1945
February 1946
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Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan
22 March 1946
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League of Nations Passes on Supervision over Mandates to the UN; Acknowledges Transjordan's Independence
18 April 1946
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An Irgun Attack on British
25 April 1946
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Independence of the Emirate of Transjordan; a New Constitution for the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan
25 May 1946 - 7 December 1946
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Formation of the (Palestinian) Arab Higher Front in Opposition to the Palestine Arab Party
29 May 1946
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Arab League Supervises the Establishment of a Unified Palestinian Arab Higher Committee
12 June 1946
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Series of Zionist Anti-British Attacks
17 June 1946 - 22 July 1946
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Transjordan's Application for UN Membership Fails to Obtain Security Council Approval
26 June 1946 - 29 August 1946
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Anglo-American Conference Meets in London and Proposes the Morrison-Grady Federal Plan
24 July 1946
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Jewish Agency Partition Plan Secures US Endorsement
5 August 1946 - 14 August 1946
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New Wave of Zionist Anti-British Attacks
9 September 1946 - 2 December 1946
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Round Table Conference on Palestine Held in London
10 September 1946 - 3 October 1946
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Truman's Statement after Postponement of Round Table Conference on Palestine
4 October 1946
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22nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
9 December 1946 - 24 December 1946
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More Irgun Operations Against the British
29 December 1946 - 28 January 1947
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London Round Table Conference Reopens and Fails
27 January 1947 - 18 February 1947
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Deadly Zionist Anti-British Attacks
28 February 1947 - 1 March 1947
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Great Britain Refers the question of Palestine to the UN
2 April 1947
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Continuation of Zionist-British Confrontation
16 April 1947 - 26 April 1947
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Casualties of Zionist Anti-British Attacks
16 May 1947
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Stern Gang Letter Bombs Against Officials in London
5 June 1947
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Majority of UNSCOP Members Recommend Partition
15 June 1947 - 3 September 1947
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Irgun Kidnaps and Murders Two British Sergeants
11 July 1947 - 31 July 1947
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British to Terminate Palestine Mandate
26 September 1947
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First Phase of Palestine War: Offensive Defense versus Active Defense
29 November 1947 - 10 March 1948
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Series of Zionist Attacks on Palestinians in the Wake of the Partition Plan
6 December 1947 - 31 December 1947
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Great Britain Announces Termination Date of its Mandate over Palestine
11 December 1947
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Arab Liberation Army Organized
1 January 1948 - 10 January 1948
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Palestinian Attacks
14 January 1948 - 19 February 1948
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The Palestine Commission Submits First Reports to Security Council
29 January 1948 - 16 February 1948
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British Break Arab Attacks
6 February 1948 - 10 February 1948
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Transjordan and Great Britain Agree on Jordanian Military Intervention in Palestine
7 February 1948
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Fate of Diplomatic Representations in Jerusalem
11 February 1948 - 1 May 1948
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Second Phase of the Palestine War: Zionist Offensive
10 March 1948 - 15 May 1948
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Haganah Operations
11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948
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Palestinian Operations
11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948
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A New Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan
15 March 1948
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US Apparent Hesitancy Toward Partition
18 March 1948 - 30 March 1948
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Early Responses to Truce and Trusteeship Ideas
19 March 1948 - 20 March 1948
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Operations Nachshon and Har'el to Open Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Road
3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948
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The Battle for Haifa and Its Surroundings
4 April 1948 - 22 April 1948
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Fighting Around Jerusalem
12 April 1948 - 23 April 1948
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Fall of Tiberias
16 April 1948 - 18 April 1948
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Trusteeship Plan for Palestine
20 April 1948
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Operation Hametz and the Fall of Jaffa
24 April 1948 - 13 May 1948
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Operation Jevussi for the Conquest of Jerusalem
26 April 1948 - 30 April 1948
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Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee
28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948
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British Parliament Enacts the Palestine Act, 1948
29 April 1948
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Arab States (Reluctantly) Prepare for Intervention in Palestine
30 April 1948 - 12 May 1948
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Arab Gains in Gush Etzion
3 May 1948 - 14 May 1948
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Operations Makkabi and Ben-Nun in al-Latrun Area
8 May 1948 - 31 May 1948
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Great Britain Issues the Palestine (Revocations) Order in Council, 1948
12 May 1948
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Operations Shfifon and Kilshon in Jerusalem
14 May 1948 - 28 May 1948
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Arab States Explain Reasons for Intervening in Palestine
15 May 1948
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The British Mandate Ends. The US Recognizes the State of Israel
15 May 1948
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Israel's Law and Administration Ordinance
19 May 1948
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Israel Establishes Military Government in Palestinian Areas
21 October 1948
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Operation Horev Against Egyptian Forces
22 December 1948 - 6 January 1949
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Great Britain Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis
30 January 1949
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The US Recognizes Transjordan on a de jure Basis
31 January 1949
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Gaza's Egyptian Administration
8 August 1949
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Great Britain Announces Formal Recognition of Extended Kingdom of Jordan and de jure Recognition of Israel Simultaneously
27 April 1950
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Israel and the Lavon Affair
July 1954 - 17 February 1955
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Gaza's Basic Law
11 May 1955
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France and Israel Sign Arms Deal and Prepare for War
22 June 1956 - 29 July 1956
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Nationalization of the Suez Canal
26 July 1956
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The 1956 War - The Tripartite Aggression
29 October 1956 - 12 March 1957
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Britain and France Join the War
31 October 1956
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British and French Troops Invade Canal Zone
5 November 1956
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UNGA 1002 (ES-1): Calling for Withdrawal of Israeli Forces Behind Armistice Lines and of British and French Forces from Egypt
7 November 1956
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The United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) Deploys in Sinai
12 November 1956 - 12 March 1957
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Anti-Monarchic Coup in Iraq
14 July 1958
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Israeli Military Order Regarding Prohibition of Incitement and Hostile Propaganda Actions (West Bank) No. 101
27 August 1967
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Land Law, 5729-1969
17 July 1969
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PFLP Hijack Operations
6 September 1970 - 12 September 1970
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Israeli Measures Against Palestinian Universities
2 November 1983 - 30 July 1984
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Iron Fist Policy in the Occupied Territories
29 July 1985 - 4 August 1985
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Israeli-Jordanian Peace Treaty Signed near Aqaba
26 October 1994
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French-Palestinian Agreement on Status of French Institutions Under Palestinian Authority
12 December 1997 - 18 December 1997
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London Meeting on Supporting the Palestinian Authority
1 March 2005
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Israeli Raid on Jericho Jail
14 March 2006 - 18 March 2006
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Tony Blair Appointed Quartet Special Representative
27 June 2007
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Assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhuh in Dubai
20 January 2010 - 31 January 2010
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100-Year Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration
1 November 2017 - 2 November 2017
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Palestinian Professor of Engineering Fadi al-Batsh Assassinated in Kuala Lumpur
21 April 2018
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Jerusalem Court Ruling Threatens 700 Palestinians With Eviction
19 January 2020 - 26 January 2020

Biographies

Biography
Hafiz al-Sa’id
1843 - 1916
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
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
Omar al-Bitar
1880 - 16 June 1946
Biography
Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar
1880 - 1949
Biography
Izzeddin al-Qassam
1882 - 20 November 1935
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
Abd al-Latif Salah
1884 - 8 November 1952
Biography
Isaaf al-Nashashibi
1885 - 22 January 1948
Biography
Adil Jabir
1885 - 19 December 1953
Biography
Khalil Abdallah Totah
20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955
Biography
Mu‘in al-Madi
1887 - 1957
Biography
Muhammad Izzat Darwaza
21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984
Biography
Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani
1888 - 20 January 1954
Biography
Abd al-Hamid Shuman
1888 - 9 September 1974
Biography
Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim
1889 - 1953
Biography
Rafiq al-Tamimi
1889 - 1957
Biography
Awni Abd al-Hadi
1889 - 15 March 1970
Biography
George Antonius
1891 - 1942
Biography
Aref al-Aref
1892 - 1973
Biography
Jamal al-Husseini
1892 - 5 July 1982
Biography
Karimeh Abbud
1893 - 27 April 1940
Biography
Issa al-Sifri
1894 - 19 March 1949
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
Muhammad Amin al-Husseini
1895 - 4 July 1974
Biography
Musa Nasir
4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971
Biography
Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi
1896 - 27 September 1951
Biography
Muhammad Ali al-Taher
1896 - 22 August 1974
Biography
Wasif Jawhariyyeh
1897 - 1973
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
Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari
1900 - 29 May 1980
Biography
Fuad Saba
1902 - 27 August 1984
Biography
Zulaykha al-Shihabi
1903 - 13 May 1992
Biography
Ishaq Musa al-Husseini
1904 - 17 December 1990
Biography
Ibrahim Tuqan
1905 - 2 May 1941
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
Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih
1907 - 8 January 2001
Biography
Nicola Ziadeh
1907 - 27 July 2006
Biography
Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini
1908 - 8 April 1948
Biography
Ahmad al-Shuqairi
1908 - 25 February 1980
Biography
Abd al-Karim al-Karmi (Abu Salma)
1909 - 11 October 1980
Biography
Qadri Tuqan
1910 - 26 February 1971
Biography
Sami Taha Hamran
1911 - 11 September 1947
Biography
Abd al-Majid Shuman
1912 - 5 July 2005
Biography
Qudsia Khourshid
5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009
Biography
Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud
1913 - 13 July 1948
Biography
Anwar Nusseibeh
1913 - 1986
Biography
Fouad Nassar
28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976
Biography
Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil
1915 - 2007
Biography
Emile Touma
16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985
Biography
Haydar Abd al-Shafi
10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007
Biography
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994
Biography
Ihsan Abbas
2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003
Biography
Siba Fahoum
1923 - 12 May 2004
Biography
Fatima al-Budeiri
1923 - June 2009
Biography
Yusra al-Barbari
15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009
Biography
Samiha Khalil
20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999
Biography
George Habash
1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008
Biography
Muin Bseiso
1926 - 23 January 1984
Biography
Issam Abd al-Hadi
1928 - 8 August 2013
Biography
Samira Abu Ghazaleh
1928 - 12 January 2017
Biography
Antoine Zahlan
1928 - 1 September 2020
Biography
Hanna Abu Hanna
16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022
Biography
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001
Biography
Tawfiq Zayyad
7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994
Biography
Gabi Baramki
3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012
Biography
Ismail Shammout
2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006
Biography
Nayef Hawatmeh
November 1935
Biography
Naji al-Ali
1936 - 29 August 1987
Biography
Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout
1937 - 12 July 2025
Biography
Youssef Sami al-Youssef
1938 - 2 May 2013
Biography
Faisal al-Husseini
17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001
Biography
Kamal Boullata
1942 - 6 August 2019
Biography
François Abou Salem
16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011
Biography
Tawfiq Ibrahim
- 1966

Historical Media

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Ottoman Empire - Administrative Division
1899
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Sykes-Picot Agreement
8 May 1916
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British Troops with Machine Guns
1920
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Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill at Government House Reception
28 March 1921
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Musa Kazim Husseini's Funeral, Damascus Gate
27 March 1934
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Palestine and Oil
1936
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Laying Siege to Jaffa's Old City
1936
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Arab Revolt 1936 - Reinforcements
1936
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British Police Search Palestinians
1936
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British Soldiers Enforce a Daytime Curfew on Lydda
April 1936
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Jaffa in Ruins
June 1936
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Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj Muhammad
1938
Document
British Troops Regain Control of Jerusalem's Old City
October 1938
Document
Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure
15 December 1938
Document
London Conference
February 1939
Document
Illegal Immigration (I)
1946
Document
Illegal Immigration (II)
1946
Document
King David Hotel
24 July 1946
Document
Arms Dumps in the Colonies
2 September 1946
Document
Hostage Taking by the Irgun
July 1947
Document
Importation of a Military Industry
1948
Document
Abandoning Ship
14 May 1948
Document
Palestine: A Homeland Denied
1979

Historical Texts

Document
Letter from Theodore Herzl to Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi
19 March 1899
Document
Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein
25 October 1915
Document
Sykes-Picot Agreement
16 May 1916
Document
Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission
28 August 1919
Document
The Covenant of the League of Nations: Article 22
10 January 1920
Document
San Remo Conference Resolutions: Syria, Mesopotamia [Iraq], Palestine Mandates
25 April 1920
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
Churchill White Paper
3 June 1922
Document
Statement of the Executive Committee of the 4th Palestinian National Congress Rejecting the British Mandate (in Arabic)
8 July 1922
Document
League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine
24 July 1922
Document
The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)
10 August 1922
Document
Council of the League of Nations: Exclusion of Transjordan Territory from the Jewish National Home
16 September 1922
Document
Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate
20 February 1928
Document
Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem
19 November 1928
Document
The Hope Simpson Report
22 August 1930
Document
Passfield White Paper
20 October 1930
Document
Report of the British - International Commission on al-Buraq / Western Wall
1 December 1930
Document
Palestine (Western or Wailing Wall) Order in Council, 1931
19 May 1931
Document
Charter of the Arab Youth Congress
4 January 1932
Document
The Murison Commission Report
4 January 1934
Document
Proposed New Constitution for Palestine
22 December 1935 - 23 December 1935
Document
Peel Commission Report
July 1937
Document
Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report
23 July 1937
Document
Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report
9 November 1938
Document
British Government Statement on the Partition (Woodhead) Commission's Report
11 November 1938
Document
London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence
16 March 1939
Document
MacDonald White Paper
17 May 1939
Document
Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper
30 May 1939
Document
The Alexandria Protocol on Forming the League of Arab States
7 October 1944
Document
Pact of the League of Arab States
22 March 1945
Document
The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945
22 September 1945
Document
Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
20 April 1946
Document
The Grady-Morrison Plan
24 July 1946
Document
British Referral of the Palestine Question to the UN
2 April 1947
Document
UNGA Partition Plan
29 November 1947
Document
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
14 May 1948
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
Al-Dawayima Massacre, 29 October 1948 An Israeli Soldier Eye-Witness Account
8 November 1948
Document
Palestine National (qawmi) Charter
28 May 1964
Document
Palestine National (watani) Charter
10 July 1968
Document
Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA
13 November 1974
Document
Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
Document
Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement
5 October 1995
Document
PLO Negotiation Affairs Department Assessment of US Policy
20 January 2001
Document
The Mitchell Report
30 April 2001
Document
Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law
18 March 2003
Document
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles
14 April 2004
Document
President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech
16 July 2007
Document
Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace
28 December 2016
Document
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies
1 May 2017
Document
Mahmoud Abbas’s Op-Ed in The Guardian: Britain Must Atone for the Balfour Declaration – and 100 years of Suffering
1 November 2017

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology
Zionist Operations Against the British Mandate Authorities
1944 - 1947
Thematic Chronology
Regulating Palestinian Land
1858 - present
Thematic Chronology
The UN and Palestine: General Assembly Resolutions
1947 - present
Thematic Chronology
Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine
1920 - 1945
Thematic Chronology
1956 War
1955 - 1957
Thematic Chronology
Transjordan and its Evolving Connection to Palestine
1915-1954
Thematic Chronology
British and International Commissions of Inquiry in Mandate Palestine
1919 - 1946

Periods

Period
III. Late Mandate
Period
II. British Occupation and Early Mandate
Period
I. Ottoman Rule
Period
IV. The Palestine War and the Nakba

Highlights

Highlight
Palestine Police During the British Mandate
Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals
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III. Late Mandate
1936-1947
Highlight
IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba
1947-1950
Highlight
The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)
After the Nakba
Highlight
The Palestinian Communist Movement
1948-present
Highlight
Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917
Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries
Highlight
Baqa‘a Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Dheisheh Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine
A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact
Highlight
Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Beddawi Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948
An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come
Highlight
The Nakba
Stages of a Forced Displacement
Highlight
Lydda, 9-13 July 1948
A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March
Highlight
Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948
A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps
Highlight
The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip
Thwarting Resettlement Schemes
Highlight
II. British Occupation and Early Mandate
1917-1936
Highlight
Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity
1948-1993
Highlight
The Palestinian Flag
A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity
Highlight
Meanings of the Nakba
Transformations through Time and Place
Highlight
Preservation of Heritage in Palestine
A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure
Highlight
Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine
Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement
Highlight
Palestinian Embroidery
A Rich and Diverse National Heritage
Highlight
The Palestinian Novel
Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (I)
Beginners (1795-1955)
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (III)
Explorers (1965-1995)
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)
Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)
Highlight
Palestinian Photographers before 1948
Documenting Life in a Time of Change
Highlight
Palestinian Cinema
From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression
Highlight
Palestinian Music
Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry
Highlight
The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948
The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station
Highlight
Jerusalem
Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City
Highlight
Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa
Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field
Highlight
Palestine-Lebanon Border
A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens
Highlight
Palestine-Egypt Border
A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans
Highlight
Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
Promising Palestine Away
Highlight
The King-Crane Commission of 1919
Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives
Highlight
The Peel Commission, 1936–1937
Sowing the Seeds of the Partition
Highlight
The 1946 Anglo-American Committee
Humanitarianism Over Justice
Highlight
Resolution 242, 22 November 1967
Ambiguous Parameters for a Middle East Settlement
Highlight
China and the Palestine Question
From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support
Highlight
France and the Palestine Question before 1948
Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism
Highlight
Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949
Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests
Highlight
The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse
A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism
Highlight
Italy and the Palestine Question
From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility
Highlight
Turkey and the Palestine Question
Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity
Highlight
The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991
Between Ideology and Realism
Highlight
1956 War
The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression
Highlight
Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982
A Massacre by Proxy
Highlight
The Israeli Military
The Myth of “the Most Moral Army in the World”
Highlight
World Zionist Organization
Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine
Highlight
The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948
An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status
Highlight
Israel’s Appropriation of Palestinian Property
Cooking Up Laws for the Sake of Land Grab
Highlight
Present Absentees in Israel
Exiled in Their Own Homeland
Highlight
The Judaization of the Galilee
A Long-Lasting Strategy Faced by a Bulwark of Palestinian Tenacity
Highlight
Land Day, 30 March 1976
A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel
Highlight
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP
1967-present
Highlight
The Palestine Communist Party
1919–1948
Highlight
The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine
1980–present
Highlight
The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)
Before the Nakba
Highlight
The Palestine Exploration Fund
Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming
Highlight
Public Contracts during the Mandate
Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals
Highlight
Demography and the Palestine Question (I)
1850s-1948
Highlight
Demography and the Palestine Question (II)
1948-2048
Highlight
The Algerians of Palestine
1830-1948
Highlight
The Bosnians of Palestine
1881-present
Highlight
Palestinian Informal Justice
Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism
Highlight
Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine
The Emergence of a Working Class
Highlight
Palestinian Women in the Labor Market
A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism
Highlight
Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule
Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition
Highlight
Nablus Soap Production
The Decline of an Ancient Heritage
Highlight
Urban Palestine
Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations
Highlight
Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967
The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”
Highlight
Palestinian Emigration (I)
1850s-1967
Highlight
The Palestinians in Chile
A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine
Highlight
The Palestinians in Peru
A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History
Highlight
V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War
1950-1966
Highlight
Sumud
Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance
Highlight
Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948
A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba
Highlight
Palestinian Music in Exile
Traditions and Resistance
Highlight
Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939
A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression
Highlight
The Palestinian Poster
Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols
Highlight
UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947
Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba
Highlight
Palestine Liberation Organization (I)
The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement
Highlight
Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails
Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance
Highlight
I. Ottoman Rule
1516-1917
Highlight
Colonization and Dispossession
Zionism's Imagined Geography
Highlight
Exhibition-Making Practices, 1917-1993
Curating the National Identity