1903

1^st Palestinian women’s Organization founded, in Acre wave of Zionist immigration.

1905

7^th Zionist congress rejects the East Africa scheme (Uganda as alternative to Palestine)

1908

Najib Nassar founds Al-Carmel;’Young Turks’ Revolt begins.

1909

Tel Aviv founded as first all-Jewish city.

1911

Al-Isa brothers found Filastin newspaper in Jaffa; Al-Fatat secret society founded to work towards Arab independence from Ottoman rule.

1913

1^st Arab Nationalist Congress in Paris calls for provincial Arab autonomy from Ottomans.

1914

The Ottoman Empire enters WW1 on the side of Germany.

1915

Hussein-McMahon correspondence begins.

1916

Svkes-Picot Agreement signed; Sharif Hussein launches the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans

1917

Balfour Declaration; Ottoman forces surrender to the British.

1918

Armistice effectively ends the Ottoman Empire.

1919

King-Crane Commission; 1^st Palestinian National Congress in Jerusalem demands independence

1920

San Remo Conference ; British civil administration begins; Nabi Musa riots; Haycraft Commission

1922

League of Nations approve British Mandate of Palestine; Churchill’s White Paper reaffirms the Balfour Declaration..

1923

British Mandate comes into effect.

1928

British Gov’t White Paper confirms the status of the Wailing Western Wall as Muslim property.

1929

Al-Buraq riots; Shaw Commission; hope-Simpson Commission.

1930

British Gov’t Passfield’ White Paper.

1933

General strike in Palestine to protest Jewish immigration

1936

Great Rebellion begins; Arab Higher Committee established.

1937

Peel Commission

1938

Woodhead Commission

1939

London Conference at St. James’s Palace; British Gov’t MacDonald’ White Paper restricts Jewish immigration and land purchases

1942

Zionist Conference at Biltmore Hotel formulates idea of ‘Jewish Commonwealth 'in Palestine.

1946

Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry into Jewish immigration; Morrison-Grady Plan.

1947

UN Special Committee on Palestine formed; UN Res. 181 (Partition Plan)

1948

First Arab-Israeli War; An-Naqba; Deir Yassin massacre; Birth of the State of Israel; All Palestine Government; Palestinian Declaration of Independence; UNGA Res.194.

1949

UN Conciliation Commission for Palestine established; UNRWA founded; UNGA Res. 303; Fourth Geneva Convention.

1950

Israeli ‘Law of Return’ and Absentee Property Law ‘; Jordan Geneva Convention.

1951

Assassination of King Abdallah in Jerusalem.

1955

Israeli army attack and massacre in Gaza.

1959

Fateh founded.

1963

PLO Draft Constitution issued at the Arab Summit in Cairo.

1964

PLO founded

1965

Israel diverts the Jordan River; first military operation of Fateh in Palestine.

1966

Israeli massacre in As-Samu’ village.

1967

June or Six-Day War; occupation of Palestine; UNSC Res. 242; Arab League summit in Khartoum.

1968

PFLP founded; Battle of Karameh; Palestinian National Charter amended.

1969

DFLP founded; arson attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque; Arafat becomes PLO chairman

1970

Black September in Jordan

1972

King Hussein’s United Arab Kingdom Plan.

1973

October or Yom Kippur War; UN Res.338; Geneva Conference; Palestinian National Salvation Front created.

1974

Rejectionist Front formed; UN and Arab League recognize PLO as sole legitimate representative of the Palestinians, Arafat addresses the UN

1975

PLO granted access to the UNSC; UNGA Res.3379 (Zionism as a form of racism).

1976

Land Day; West Bank municipal election.

1977

Begins autonomy peace plan.

1978

National Guidance Committee formed; Israeli invasion of South Lebanon; Camp David Accords

1979

Israeli- Egyptian Peace Treaty; International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People declared; UN Res.446, 452 condemn Israeli settlement policy.

1980

EC’s Venice Declaration; Israel’s Basic Law on Jerusalem.

1981

King Fahed Plan.

1982

Fez Plan; Reagan Paln; Brezhnev Plan; Israeli invasion of Lebanon; Sabra and Shatila massacre; Palestinian Communist Party founded.

1983

Geneva International Conference.

1986

‘War of the Camps’ (Lebanon)

1987

Intifada

1988

Jordan’s disengagement; Hamas emerges; Shultz Peace Plan; Palestinian Declaration of independence.

1990

Rishon LeZion (Lyun Qarah). Al-Aqsa massacres.

1991

Gulf War; Madrid Conference.

1992

Multilateral talks; Labor wins Israeli elections.

1993

Closure policy begins; Declaration of Principles.

1994

Hebron massacre; Oslo 1; PA established; Early Empowerment Agreement.

1995

Oslo II; Rabin assassinated.

1996

Palestinian elections; PLC; Netanyahu/Likud.

1997

Hebron Agreement; Sheikh Ahmad Yassin released.

1998

Wye River Memorandum.

1999

Sharm El-Sheikh Agreement