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Events in Palestinian History

Crusaders Take Acre

1191-07-12 Third Crusade: City of Acre surrenders to English King Richard I the Lionheart and the Crusaders after a siege of nearly two years

1260-09-03 Battle of Ain Jalut: Bahr: Mamluk of Egypt defeat Mongol army led by Kitbuqa in the Levant - often labelled a turning point in world history, saving the Arabic-Islamic civilization from destruction
1291-07-31 Egyptian Mamelukken occupies Akko, crusaders driven out of Palestine
1759-10-31 Earthquake in Safed, Palestine kills hundreds

Siege of Jaffa

1799-03-08 Napoleon Bonaparte's forces capture the city of Jaffa from the Ottoman Empire in Palestine, after a 5 day siege

1809-08-08 70 disciples of Gaon of Vilnius, arrive in Palestine

Alexander I

1818-11-21 Russia's Tsar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine

1834-06-15 Rioters in Safed Palestine kills many Jews
1835-07-25 Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine
1882-07-06 14 Russian Jews from Bilu arrive in Jaffa, Palestine
1901-09-12 Arabs attack Gedara Palestine
1912-04-11 Cornerstone of Technion laid in Haifa, Palestine
1913-07-23 Arabs attack Jewish community of Rechovot, Palestine
1913-12-12 Hebrew language officially used to teach in Palestinian schools
1915-03-02 Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine
1917-01-09 World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
1917-10-31 World War I: Battle of Beersheba in southern Palestine - "last successful cavalry charge in history" performed by the 4th Australian Light Horse

Balfour Declaration

1917-11-02 Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine

1917-11-07 British capture Gaza, Palestine, from Turks
1918-02-21 Australians chase Turkish troop out of Jericho, Dutch Palestine
1918-09-01 Battle of Megiddo starts, the final Allied offense during Sinai and Palestine campaign won by the Allies
1919-01-03 The Faisal-Weizmann Agreement, which was a short-lived agreement for the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, is signed by the King of Iraq and the President of the World Zionist Organization
1920-04-24 British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect (lasts 28 years)
1920-04-25 San Remo conference establishes three League of Nations mandates: a French mandate for Syria, and British mandates for Mesopotamia and Palestine with effect to the terms of the Balfour Declaration
1920-07-01 Sir Herbert Samuel takes over as high commissioner over Palestine, where Arab resistance to the British mandate continues
1921-06-19 Turks and Christians of Palestine sign a friendship treaty against Jews
1922-09-11 British mandate of Palestine begins

Harding Approves Jewish Homeland

1922-09-21 US President Warren G. Harding signs a joint resolution of approval to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine

1924-06-11 Bene Brak Palestine founded
1924-06-13 Bene Berak, Palestine, founded
1927-07-02 Jericho Earthquake in Palestine kills about 500
1929-08-14 Jewish Agency for Palestine forms
1929-08-24 Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem
1933-07-21 Haifa Harbor in Palestine opens
1934-02-10 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine
1936-04-19 First day of the Great Uprising in Palestine, anti-Jewish riots break out
1936-04-20 Jews repel an Arab attack in Petach Tikvah Palestine
1937-09-08 Pan Arab conference about Palestine opens
1938-08-26 British leaders & Arabians fight in Palestine
1939-05-23 British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949

Palestine Jews in WWII

1939-08-29 Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II

1940-05-01 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship

Ben-Gurion Departs

1942-05-12 David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine

1st Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion

1943-05-01 German plane sinks the British ship SS Erinpura in the Mediterranean with the loss of 799 lives
1945-08-25 Jewish immigrants are permitted to leave Mauritius for Palestine
1946-06-29 Black Sabbath as the British arrest 2,700 Jews in Palestine as alleged terrorists
1946-06-29 British mandatory government of Palestine arrests 100 leaders of Yishnuv
1946-07-22 Militant Zionist organization Irgun bombs the British administrative headquarters for Palestine in southern wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people of various nationalities injuring 46

Bombing of King David Hotel

1946-07-23 Menachem Begin's Zionist militant group Irgun bombs the King David Hotel, the then British administrative headquarters for Palestine

1946-08-13 Britain diverts illegal emmigrants bound for Palestine to Cyprus
1946-10-06 US President Harry Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine
1947-02-07 The UK announces its intention to end the Mandate for Palestine
1947-07-18 British seize "Exodus 1947" ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine
1947-11-29 UN General Assembly vote to allow the partition of Palestine between Arabs & Jews
1947-12-29 Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine
1948-02-01 Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed
1948-05-15 End of the British Mandate over Palestine after 28 years
1948-08-23 Earl Bernadotte asks aid for fugitives to Palestine

Bunche Palestine Mediator

1948-09-18 Ralph Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator in Palestine

Diplomat and Nobel Laureate Ralph Bunche

1948-10-29 Safsaf massacre, Israeli defence forces attack Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee
1948-12-01 Arabic Congress names Abdullah of Trans Jordan as King of Palestine
1948-12-08 Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine
1951-07-20 King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem

Nasser's Pledge

1956-01-16 Egyptian President Nasser pledges to reconquer Palestine

1956-07-25 Jordan attacks UN Palestine force
1962-03-09 Egyptian President Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians
1964-05-28 Palestine National Congress forms the PLO in Jerusalem
1964-09-10 Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms
1965-01-01 Palestinian al-Fatah organization forms
1967-12-11 People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established
1968-07-02 An El Al Israeli airliner is hijacked and diverted to Algeria by three armed members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)

Yasser Arafat PLO Chairman

1969-02-04 The Palestine National Congress appoints Yasser Arafat chairman of the PLO

Event of Interest

1977-03-16 US President Jimmy Carter pleads for a Palestinian homeland

1978-10-02 Syrian & Palestinians shoot in East Beirut, 1,300 killed
1978-11-29 UN observes "international day of solidarity with Palestinian people," boycotted by US & about 20 other countries
1979-04-16 Failed Palestinian attack on Zaventem Airport, Belgium
1980-07-27 Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead
1982-06-03 Israeli ambassador Shlomo Argov seriously wounded by Palestinians
1982-06-26 US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces
1982-08-21 Palestinian terrorists are dispersed from Beirut

Israeli History

1982-08-22 Israeli General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence

General and Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon

1982-09-01 Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon
1982-09-16 Massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila & Sabra begins
1982-09-18 Sabra and Shatila massacres - Christian militia massacre at least 700 Palestinians in retaliation for assassination of Bachir Gemayel
1983-11-24 PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians & Lebanese
1985-09-25 Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus
1987-12-07 Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank
1987-12-08 Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel
1987-12-09 Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank
1988-01-03 Israel orders 9 Palestinian "instigators" deported from W Beirut
1988-12-07 PLO delegation lead by Yasser Arafat proclaims the State of Palestine, recognizing the existence of the State of Israel for the first time
1988-12-14 US agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org for the 1st time in 13 yrs
1990-10-08 Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
1990-12-04 An Iraqi official reports that Iraq will withdraw if it can retain control of the Rumailah field and keep Bubiyan and Werbah islands; also says that demands that the Palestinian issue be treated separately would not be surmountable
1991-10-31 Palestinians attend US mideast peace talks in Madrid
1991-12-20 Missouri court sentences Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the "honor killing" of their teenaged daughter Palestina in St. Louis; he dies of diabetes complications before execution, she dies of natural causes while in prison

Agreement of Interest

1993-09-13 Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway, signed by Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres and PLO official Mahmoud Abbas

1994-02-25 Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres at least 55 Palestinians at Hebron Ibrahimi Mosque, with an assault style rifle
1994-04-06 Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis & himself
1994-08-24 Israel & PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to Palestinians in West Bank in education, health, taxation, social welfare & tourism
1994-10-19 Palestinian bomb attack on bus in Tel Aviv, kills 22
1995-01-22 Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed
1995-10-10 Israel begins West Bank pullback, frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
1995-10-26 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta.

Yitzhak Rabin

1995-11-06 Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by Jewish extremist Yigal Amir who opposed peace with Palestinians

1995-12-21 The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
1996-01-10 Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
1996-03-07 The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament formed
1998-08-11 Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian National Authority president, Yasser Arafat, arrives in Cape Town on his first state visit to South Africa at the invitation of President Nelson Mandela
1998-10-23 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat agree to the Wye River Memorandum, resuming implementation of the stalled Oslo II Accord which established a level of self-government for Palestine; signed at the White House, In Washington D.C.