Proclamations No. 75 and No. 76 on Immovable Property

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...

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.

Purportedly concerned about the well-being and development of peoples that have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them and are “not yet able to stand by...

Representatives from Palestine, members of the General Syrian Congress present in Damascus, hold a separate meeting (they call the General Palestinian Congress) in which they affirm their refusal to...