American Jews Petition President Wilson Against Jewish State in Palestine

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...

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...

The San Remo Conference, attended by representatives of the Allied Powers (Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan ), adopts resolutions that incorporate the Sykes-Picot Agreement to a significant...

Mandate authorities authorities prevent the Second Palestinian National Congress from convening.