Palestine Atlas Directory
Events
- Foundation stone of Hejaz Railway laid
- Estimated population of Palestine: 650,000 (90% Arab)
- Jewish Colonization Association (JCA) founded
- Ottoman census documents populations in major cities
- Jaffa estimated population: 40,000
- Young Turk Revolution - restoration of Ottoman parliament
- Tel Aviv founded on Palestinian Jaffa land (60 Jewish homes)
- Estimated population of Palestine: 800,000
- WWI begins - Jewish immigration halts
- Balfour Declaration: Britain supports 'Jewish national home' in Palestine
- General Allenby enters Jerusalem (9 December)
- End of WWI - Ottoman Empire falls
- Beginning of British military administration
- Jewish Agency founded - official Zionist organization
- Nablus riots (April): first Arab protests against Balfour
- San Remo Conference: League of Nations grants Britain Mandate
- First British census: 752,048 (78% Muslim, 11% Jewish)
- Va'ad Leumi (Jewish National Council) established
- Al-Azhar College founded in Jerusalem
- Western Wall riots: protests over Jewish attempts to control Wall
- Hebron massacre: 67 Jews killed by Arabs
- 1931 Census: 1,035,821 (73% Muslim, 17% Jewish)
- Start of the Great Arab Revolt (1936-1939)
- Arab National Committees formed in cities and villages
- Peel Commission Report: partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states
- Arab rejection of partition - revolt continues
- End of Great Arab Revolt - 5,000 Arabs killed
- London Conference: Britain promises one state within 10 years
- 1939 White Paper: restrictions on Jewish immigration and land purchase
- Biltmore Conference: Zionist demand for 'Jewish State'
- Village Statistics 1945: enumeration of 1,324 localities
- Population: 1,764,520 (60% Muslim, 31% Jewish)
- Land ownership: Arabs own 94% of total land
- UN Partition Resolution 181 (II) (29 Nov): plan to partition Palestine
- Approved: 33 states - Opposed: 13 - Abstained: 10
- Palestinian and Arab rejection of partition
- Beginning of armed Arab-Jewish clashes
- 9 April: Deir Yassin massacre - 100-254 civilians killed
- 13 April: Qatamon massacre - medical convoy attacked
- 14 May: State of Israel declared - end of British Mandate
- 15 May: Arab-Israeli War begins - Arab armies enter
- Nakba: 750,000 Palestinians expelled, 500+ villages destroyed
- Resolution 194: right of return and compensation (December)
- 11 June: 4-week truce begins
- Armistice agreements: Palestine de facto divided
- UNRWA established for refugee relief
- Israel controls 78% of historic Palestine
- Israeli Law of Return: grants citizenship to any Jew
- West Bank annexed by Jordan (24 April)
- Gaza Strip under Egyptian administration
- Suez Crisis (October): Britain, France, Israel attack Egypt
- Israel occupies Gaza Strip temporarily
- Khan Yunis massacre: 275 Palestinians killed
- PLO founded in Cairo
- Palestine Liberation Army established
- Six-Day War (5-10 June) - Naksa
- Israel occupies West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, Golan, Sinai
- Additional 250,000 Palestinians displaced
- UN Resolution 242: demands Israeli withdrawal
- East Jerusalem annexed to Israel (28 June)
- Yasser Arafat becomes PLO Chairman
- Black September: clashes between PLO and Jordanian army
- PLO relocates from Jordan to Lebanon
- October War (6-25 Oct): Egypt and Syria attack Israel
- UN Resolution 3236: recognizes Palestinian rights
- Arafat's UN speech: 'I came bearing an olive branch and a gun'
- WHO recognizes UNRWA
- Lebanese Civil War begins
- Operation Litani: Israel invades South Lebanon
- UN Resolution 425: demands Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon
- Israeli invasion of Lebanon (June)
- Sabra and Shatila massacre: 3,500+ Palestinian killed
- PLO expelled from Beirut to Tunisia
- 9 December: First Intifada begins (stones vs tanks)
- Popular committees and national movement formed
- Palestinian Declaration of Independence (15 November) in Algeria
- UN Resolution 177: condemns Israeli policies
- Madrid Peace Conference: first direct negotiations
- Gulf War: Palestinian division over Iraq position
- Oslo Accords (13 Sept): mutual PLO-Israel recognition
- Palestinian National Authority established
- West Bank divided into Areas A, B, C
- Gaza-Jericho First (4 May): partial Israeli withdrawal
- Cave of Patriarchs massacre: Baruch Goldstein kills 29 worshippers
- Palestinian security services established
- Oslo II Agreement (28 September)
- Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin assassinated (4 November)
- First Palestinian elections (20 Jan): Arafat wins presidency
- ARIJ founded - Applied Research Institute
- PCBS Census 1997: 2,890,630 (West Bank and Gaza)
- Camp David Summit fails (July)
- Sharon visits Al-Aqsa (28 Sept): Second Intifada begins
- UN Mitchell Committee report
- Mitchell Report (April): calls for settlement freeze
- Operation Defensive Shield: full-scale West Bank invasion
- Jenin massacre: camp destroyed, hundreds killed
- Siege of Muqata'a and Arafat's headquarters
- Road Map for Peace (April): US-EU peace plan
- Construction of separation wall begins
- ICJ Advisory Opinion: wall is illegal
- Death of Yasser Arafat (11 November)
- Israeli unilateral disengagement from Gaza (Aug-Sept)
- Bil'in weekly protests against wall begin
- Legislative elections (25 Jan): Hamas wins
- International boycott of PA after Hamas victory
- Lebanon War (July-August)
- PCBS Census 2007: 3,761,646
- Palestinian split (June): Hamas takes Gaza, Fatah takes West Bank
- Tight Israeli siege on Gaza begins
- First Gaza War (Cast Lead): December-January 2009
- Goldstone Report: both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes
- Gaza War continues (3-18 Jan): 1,400+ Palestinian killed
- Benjamin Netanyahu begins first term as Israeli PM
- Palestine 194: UN membership bid (September)
- Palestinian reconciliation agreement: Fatah and Hamas
- Resolution 67/19: Palestine recognized as observer state (29 Nov)
- 138 voted for, 9 against, 41 abstained
- Second Gaza War: 8 July - 26 August
- 2,200+ Palestinian killed (70% civilians), 11,000+ injured
- 18,000 homes destroyed in Gaza
- Wave of Palestinian-Israeli violence (October 2015)
- Duma arson attack: settlers burn baby alive
- PCBS Census 2017: 4,780,978 (West Bank and Gaza)
- Trump declares Jerusalem as Israel's capital (6 Dec)
- Great March of Return (30 March): Gaza border protests
- 200+ Palestinian killed on Gaza border (including medics, journalists)
- Abraham Accords: UAE-Bahrain-Israel normalization
- COVID-19 spreads in Palestine and occupied territories
- Gaza War (10-21 May): 260+ Palestinian killed in Gaza
- Jerusalem: protests against Sheikh Jarrah evictions
- Al-Aqsa raid and Eid prayer suppression (May)
- Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh killed (11 May) in Jenin
- Operation Freedom Tunnel: 6 prisoners escape Gilboa prison
- 7 October: Al-Aqsa Flood operation - Hamas attack on Israel
- 1,200 Israelis killed (mostly civilians) in initial attack
- Israeli response: genocidal war on Gaza (7 Oct - ongoing)
- Northern West Bank: widespread incursions and armed resistance
- Gaza war continues: 40,000+ Palestinian killed (mostly children, women)
- ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant
- ICJ advisory opinion: occupation is illegal
- 70%+ of Gaza buildings destroyed - 2,000,000 displaced
- Ceasefire agreement (19 Jan): prisoner exchange and truce
- War resumes (18 March): Israel breaks truce
- Hospitals, schools, water tanks destroyed in Gaza
- Gaza war continues - catastrophic humanitarian situation
- UNRWA: 2.2 million in Gaza depend on aid
- Escalation of armed resistance in West Bank