Origins of the name "Palestine"
The Arab-Israeli Wars |
| 1948 |
| 1956 |
| 1967 |
| 1973 |
| Summer 2006 War |
| Peace Initiatives |
| Jerusalem's Holy Sites |
1858, 1867: Ottoman Period Land and Tax Reforms.
1915-1930: World War I and Aftermath
1915: British Promises to the Arabs.
1928-1929: "Wailing Wall" Disturbances.
1935, November 20: Death of Sheikh Izz al-Din al-Qassam.
Later Mandate Period (1930-1947)
1947, November 29: United Nations Partition Plan.
1948, December 11: U.N. Resolution 194.
1953: Ariel Sharon's "Unit 101."
1956: Second Arab-Israeli War.
1964: Creation of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
1967, June: Third Arab-Israeli War.
1967, July: Allon Plan to hold on to occupied territories.
1967, November 22: U.N. Resolution 242.
1968, March 21: Battle of Karameh.
1969: Fatah becomes leading faction of PLO.
1969, November: "The Cairo Agreement," a pact between Lebanon and the PLO.
1973, October 6-26: Fourth Arab-Israeli (Yom Kippur/Ramadan) War.
1973, October 22: U.N. Resolution 338.
1974, November 22: U.N. 3236 rules Jordan has no legal rights to West Bank.
1975-1989: Civil War in Lebanon.
1976, March 30: "Land Day" demonstrations.
1978: Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said publishes Orientalism.
1980, July 2: Israeli militants attack two West Bank mayors.
1985, February 11: Amman Agreement.
1988, November 15: Palestinian leadership proclaims a state.
1988, July 30: Jordan's King Hussein disavows all Jordanian claims to sovereignty in the West Bank. (more on Jordan)
1990-1992: Gulf Wars Period (1990-1992)
1993: Oslo Peace Accord Assessment of Oslo.
1994, July1: PLO Chairman Arafat returns to geographical Palestine.
1994, July 17: "Bread Intifada."
1996, January 20: Arafat is elected President.
1998: Wye Plantation Agreement.
2000, July: Failure at Camp David.
2001, January: Arafat turns down deal brokered by President Clinton.
2001, October 2: President Bush calls for the creation of a Palestinian state.
2003, April: "Roadmap" Peace Plan.
2004, April: U.S. Reversal on Settlements.
2004, November 11: Death of Yasir Arafat.
2005, January: Mahmoud Abbas elected President.
2005, February 8: Sharm al-Sheikh Truce.
2005, August: Israeli Withdrawal from Gaza.
2005, October 20: President Bush reaffirms U.S. commitment to create a Palestinian state.
2005, October: Truce ends, outbreak of new violence.
2005, December: HAMAS posts big wins in municipal elections. More on HAMAS.
2005 - 2007: Political crisis in the Palestinian Territories.
2006, March 14: Israel raids Palestinian jail in Jericho.
2006, April 17: Palestinian suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
2006, May 15: The PLO opens an office in Beirut after twenty-four year hiatus.
2006, Summer: War with Israel.
2007, February 9: Rioting at al-Aqsa.
2008, June: Israel-HAMAS six month truce begins.
See also Israel, Peace Initiatives in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and BBC: Israel and the Palestinians in Depth, and BBC: "Passions That Shape Life in Jerusalem"