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Places

Events

Foundation stone of Hejaz Railway laid (1900)
Estimated population of Palestine: 650,000 (90% Arab) (1900)
Jewish Colonization Association (JCA) founded (1901)
Ottoman census documents populations in major cities (1905)
Jaffa estimated population: 40,000 (1905)
Young Turk Revolution - restoration of Ottoman parliament (1908)
Tel Aviv founded on Palestinian Jaffa land (60 Jewish homes) (1909)
Estimated population of Palestine: 800,000 (1914)
WWI begins - Jewish immigration halts (1914)
Balfour Declaration: Britain supports 'Jewish national home' in Palestine (1917)
General Allenby enters Jerusalem (9 December) (1917)
End of WWI - Ottoman Empire falls (1918)
Beginning of British military administration (1918)
Jewish Agency founded - official Zionist organization (1920)
Nablus riots (April): first Arab protests against Balfour (1920)
San Remo Conference: League of Nations grants Britain Mandate (1920)
First British census: 752,048 (78% Muslim, 11% Jewish) (1922)
Va'ad Leumi (Jewish National Council) established (1922)
Al-Azhar College founded in Jerusalem (1922)
Western Wall riots: protests over Jewish attempts to control Wall (1929)
Hebron massacre: 67 Jews killed by Arabs (1929)
1931 Census: 1,035,821 (73% Muslim, 17% Jewish) (1931)
Start of the Great Arab Revolt (1936-1939) (1936)
Arab National Committees formed in cities and villages (1936)
Peel Commission Report: partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states (1937)
Arab rejection of partition - revolt continues (1937)
End of Great Arab Revolt - 5,000 Arabs killed (1939)
London Conference: Britain promises one state within 10 years (1939)
1939 White Paper: restrictions on Jewish immigration and land purchase (1939)
Biltmore Conference: Zionist demand for 'Jewish State' (1942)
Village Statistics 1945: enumeration of 1,324 localities (1945)
Population: 1,764,520 (60% Muslim, 31% Jewish) (1945)
Land ownership: Arabs own 94% of total land (1945)
UN Partition Resolution 181 (II) (29 Nov): plan to partition Palestine (1947)
Approved: 33 states - Opposed: 13 - Abstained: 10 (1947)
Palestinian and Arab rejection of partition (1947)
Beginning of armed Arab-Jewish clashes (1947)
9 April: Deir Yassin massacre - 100-254 civilians killed (1948)
13 April: Qatamon massacre - medical convoy attacked (1948)
14 May: State of Israel declared - end of British Mandate (1948)
15 May: Arab-Israeli War begins - Arab armies enter (1948)
Nakba: 750,000 Palestinians expelled, 500+ villages destroyed (1948)
Resolution 194: right of return and compensation (December) (1948)
11 June: 4-week truce begins (1948)
Armistice agreements: Palestine de facto divided (1949)
UNRWA established for refugee relief (1949)
Israel controls 78% of historic Palestine (1949)
Israeli Law of Return: grants citizenship to any Jew (1950)
West Bank annexed by Jordan (24 April) (1950)
Gaza Strip under Egyptian administration (1950)
Suez Crisis (October): Britain, France, Israel attack Egypt (1956)
Israel occupies Gaza Strip temporarily (1956)
Khan Yunis massacre: 275 Palestinians killed (1956)
PLO founded in Cairo (1964)
Palestine Liberation Army established (1964)
Six-Day War (5-10 June) - Naksa (1967)
Israel occupies West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, Golan, Sinai (1967)
Additional 250,000 Palestinians displaced (1967)
UN Resolution 242: demands Israeli withdrawal (1967)
East Jerusalem annexed to Israel (28 June) (1967)
Yasser Arafat becomes PLO Chairman (1969)
Black September: clashes between PLO and Jordanian army (1970)
PLO relocates from Jordan to Lebanon (1970)
October War (6-25 Oct): Egypt and Syria attack Israel (1973)
UN Resolution 3236: recognizes Palestinian rights (1974)
Arafat's UN speech: 'I came bearing an olive branch and a gun' (1974)
WHO recognizes UNRWA (1974)
Lebanese Civil War begins (1975)
Operation Litani: Israel invades South Lebanon (1978)
UN Resolution 425: demands Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon (1978)
Israeli invasion of Lebanon (June) (1982)
Sabra and Shatila massacre: 3,500+ Palestinian killed (1982)
PLO expelled from Beirut to Tunisia (1982)
9 December: First Intifada begins (stones vs tanks) (1987)
Popular committees and national movement formed (1987)
Palestinian Declaration of Independence (15 November) in Algeria (1988)
UN Resolution 177: condemns Israeli policies (1988)
Madrid Peace Conference: first direct negotiations (1991)
Gulf War: Palestinian division over Iraq position (1991)
Oslo Accords (13 Sept): mutual PLO-Israel recognition (1993)
Palestinian National Authority established (1993)
West Bank divided into Areas A, B, C (1993)
Gaza-Jericho First (4 May): partial Israeli withdrawal (1994)
Cave of Patriarchs massacre: Baruch Goldstein kills 29 worshippers (1994)
Palestinian security services established (1994)
Oslo II Agreement (28 September) (1995)
Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin assassinated (4 November) (1995)
First Palestinian elections (20 Jan): Arafat wins presidency (1996)
ARIJ founded - Applied Research Institute (1996)
PCBS Census 1997: 2,890,630 (West Bank and Gaza) (1997)
Camp David Summit fails (July) (2000)
Sharon visits Al-Aqsa (28 Sept): Second Intifada begins (2000)
UN Mitchell Committee report (2000)
Mitchell Report (April): calls for settlement freeze (2001)
Operation Defensive Shield: full-scale West Bank invasion (2002)
Jenin massacre: camp destroyed, hundreds killed (2002)
Siege of Muqata'a and Arafat's headquarters (2002)
Road Map for Peace (April): US-EU peace plan (2003)
Construction of separation wall begins (2003)
ICJ Advisory Opinion: wall is illegal (2004)
Death of Yasser Arafat (11 November) (2004)
Israeli unilateral disengagement from Gaza (Aug-Sept) (2005)
Bil'in weekly protests against wall begin (2005)
Legislative elections (25 Jan): Hamas wins (2006)
International boycott of PA after Hamas victory (2006)
Lebanon War (July-August) (2006)
PCBS Census 2007: 3,761,646 (2007)
Palestinian split (June): Hamas takes Gaza, Fatah takes West Bank (2007)
Tight Israeli siege on Gaza begins (2007)
First Gaza War (Cast Lead): December-January 2009 (2008)
Goldstone Report: both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes (2008)
Gaza War continues (3-18 Jan): 1,400+ Palestinian killed (2009)
Benjamin Netanyahu begins first term as Israeli PM (2009)
Palestine 194: UN membership bid (September) (2011)
Palestinian reconciliation agreement: Fatah and Hamas (2011)
Resolution 67/19: Palestine recognized as observer state (29 Nov) (2012)
138 voted for, 9 against, 41 abstained (2012)
Second Gaza War: 8 July - 26 August (2014)
2,200+ Palestinian killed (70% civilians), 11,000+ injured (2014)
18,000 homes destroyed in Gaza (2014)
Wave of Palestinian-Israeli violence (October 2015) (2015)
Duma arson attack: settlers burn baby alive (2015)
PCBS Census 2017: 4,780,978 (West Bank and Gaza) (2017)
Trump declares Jerusalem as Israel's capital (6 Dec) (2017)
Great March of Return (30 March): Gaza border protests (2018)
200+ Palestinian killed on Gaza border (including medics, journalists) (2018)
Abraham Accords: UAE-Bahrain-Israel normalization (2020)
COVID-19 spreads in Palestine and occupied territories (2020)
Gaza War (10-21 May): 260+ Palestinian killed in Gaza (2021)
Jerusalem: protests against Sheikh Jarrah evictions (2021)
Al-Aqsa raid and Eid prayer suppression (May) (2021)
Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh killed (11 May) in Jenin (2022)
Operation Freedom Tunnel: 6 prisoners escape Gilboa prison (2022)
7 October: Al-Aqsa Flood operation - Hamas attack on Israel (2023)
1,200 Israelis killed (mostly civilians) in initial attack (2023)
Israeli response: genocidal war on Gaza (7 Oct - ongoing) (2023)
Northern West Bank: widespread incursions and armed resistance (2023)
Gaza war continues: 40,000+ Palestinian killed (mostly children, women) (2024)
ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant (2024)
ICJ advisory opinion: occupation is illegal (2024)
70%+ of Gaza buildings destroyed - 2,000,000 displaced (2024)
Ceasefire agreement (19 Jan): prisoner exchange and truce (2025)
War resumes (18 March): Israel breaks truce (2025)
Hospitals, schools, water tanks destroyed in Gaza (2025)
Gaza war continues - catastrophic humanitarian situation (2026)
UNRWA: 2.2 million in Gaza depend on aid (2026)
Escalation of armed resistance in West Bank (2026)

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