Formal Entry of General Allenby into Jerusalem

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.

After retaking Rafah, British forces reached the border with Ottoman Palestine and prepared to advance into the territory.

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...

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...

“All dispositions [...] of immovable property” are prohibited in areas conquered by the British forces, to maintain the status quo and prevent impoverished landowners from selling their lands, from...

The victorious allied powers (principally France, Great Britain, the US and Italy) open the conference in Paris to set the peace terms for the defeated powers, including the fate of territories that...