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Events

Event
Ottoman Pledges to Grant Facilities to France: Towards the Capitulations Regime
18 October 1569 - 1613
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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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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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Appointment of the King-Crane Commission
20 March 1919 - 21 July 1919
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Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir
11 April 1921
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White Paper (Churchill) of 1922 Clarifies the Terms of the Balfour Declaration
3 June 1922
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1st Palestine Arab Women's Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
26 October 1929
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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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Hope Simpson Report Is Published
22 August 1930 - 20 October 1930
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White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published
20 October 1930
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Lewis French and the Palestine Development Scheme
19 July 1931 - April 1932
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Protection of Cultivators Ordinance, No. 37
31 August 1933
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Murison Commission of Inquiry
4 January 1934
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Charles Tegart's Means of Control
3 December 1937
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Appointment of the Palestine Partition (Woodhead) Commission
4 January 1938
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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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Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington
September 1945 - December 1947

Biographies

Biography
Aref al-Dajani
1860 - 13 April 1930
Biography
Raghib al-Nashashibi
1882 - 1951
Biography
George Antonius
1891 - 1942
Biography
Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti
1894 - 22 June 1965
Biography
Muhammad Amin al-Husseini
1895 - 4 July 1974
Biography
Matiel Mogannam
15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Historical Texts

Document
Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein
25 October 1915
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Proclamation of Martial Law in Jerusalem
11 December 1917
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Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
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Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots
10 August 1921
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The Supreme Islamic Shari'a Council Order
20 December 1921
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Churchill White Paper
3 June 1922
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Shaw Commission Report
12 March 1930
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Passfield White Paper
20 October 1930
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Report of the British - International Commission on al-Buraq / Western Wall
1 December 1930
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The Palestine (Defence) Order in Council, 1937
18 March 1937
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Peel Commission Report
July 1937
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Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Commission) Report
9 November 1938
Document
London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence
16 March 1939
Document
MacDonald White Paper
17 May 1939
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Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper
30 May 1939
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Land Transfers Regulations, 1940
20 February 1940
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British Referral of the Palestine Question to the UN
2 April 1947
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UNSCOP Minority Proposal: Federal State Plan
3 September 1947
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UN Palestine Commission First Report
29 January 1948
Document
Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan, 1948
15 March 1948
Document
Agreement between the Government of the Kingdom of Egypt And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
12 September 1950
Document
Agreement between the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
14 March 1951
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Mahmoud Abbas’s Op-Ed in The Guardian: Britain Must Atone for the Balfour Declaration – and 100 years of Suffering
1 November 2017

Historical Media

Document
Arrival in Palestine of Sir Hebert Samuel, High Commissioner
7 July 1920
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Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill at Government House Reception
28 March 1921
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London Conference
February 1939
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Abandoning Ship
14 May 1948

Highlights

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Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
Promising Palestine Away
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Preservation of Heritage in Palestine
A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure
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Palestine Police During the British Mandate
Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals
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The King-Crane Commission of 1919
Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives
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II. British Occupation and Early Mandate
1917-1936
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The 1946 Anglo-American Committee
Humanitarianism Over Justice
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The Palestine Exploration Fund
Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming
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Palestine-Egypt Border
A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans
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The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917
Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest
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Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939
A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression
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Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails
Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance