Founding of the Haganah, the Jewish Paramilitary Organization

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.

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.

Together with reopening the Land Registry Offices that were closed in November 1918, the British issue the ordinance that authorizes dispositions of land but under strict conditions, to curb land...

French and British representatives sign in Paris a convention to regulate boundary-related adopts resulting from the distribution of mandates to their respective countries over territories that were...