Appointment of a British Chief Administrator for Palestine

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...

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...

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...

Thirty-one American Jewish senior figures, alarmed by the direction of discussions at the Paris Peace Conference, petition President Wilson to reject the Jewish National Home idea.

The commission recommends that the unity of Syria (comprising Lebanon and Palestine) be preserved and that Syria should be placed under one Mandatory power.