The British Prepare for the Occupation of Palestine

Guards from Rehovot affiliated with the Zionist paramilitary group Hashomer clash with Arab laborers from Zarnuqa over an accusation of theft of grapes from a Jewish-cultivated vineyard.

With the extinction of the Qahtani Society, some of its military members, including Ali al-Nashashibi (a military doctor from Jerusalem ), found the secret Covenant Society in Istanbul; it does not...

The Fifth Ottoman Parliament is elected.

The Ottoman government sends a note to all powers informing them of its decision to abrogate unilaterally the Capitulations as of 1 October.

On the strength of the assurances he received from McMahon, Sharif Hussein of Mecca states Arab independence from Ottoman rule and starts the Arab revolt from Mecca.

British Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur James Balfour sends a letter (known as the Balfour Declaration ) to Baron Lionel Walter de Rothschild pledging British support for the establishment of a Jewish...

General Allenby makes a solemn entry on foot to the Old City of Jerusalem through Jaffa Gate, accompanied by the attachés of France, Italy, and the United States.

US President Woodrow Wilson makes a major speech before the Congress recalling the moral basis of US involvement in World War I and outlining the principles, both general and territorial, for a stable...

General Allenby appoints Arthur Wigram Money Chief Administrator for Palestine.

With the Ottoman Empire ’s loss of its Arab provinces, the British and French attempt to allocate them, temporarily, between themselves, taking into account the terms of the Sykes-Picot Agreement...