San Remo Conference: Distribution of Mandates

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...

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

The Zionist leadership decides to establish a centralized paramilitary organization, the Haganah (defense) to provide defense to the Jewish communities in Palestine.

A “civil government” is formed, replacing the British military administration of Palestine (Occupied Enemy Territory Administration South).

Ottoman representatives coming from occupied Istanbul sign the Treaty of Sèvres as dictated by the Allied Powers.

The British authorities pass an ordinance to control acquisition of mahlul land.