Report of the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry on Jaffa Disturbances

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...

The Mandate restricted Palestinian access to uncultivated or grazing land through the Mewat Land Ordinance.

British authorities establish the Palestine Police as a civilian police force, laying out its structure, powers, and duties and the guidelines for appointing, promoting, disciplining, and dismissing...

Following the Cairo Conference and the Churchill –Abdullah understanding reached in Jerusalem in March 1921, Abdullah creates on 11 April an eight-member government, called Council of Advisers (majlis...

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini is elected mufti of Jerusalem after the death of his elder brother Kamel al-Husseini, who had held this position.

Faced with widespread discontent from both Arab and Zionist organizations on the 1920 Land Transfer Ordinance, the British decide to remove all restrictions on the disposition of land, except for...

The Collective Responsibility for Crime Ordinance allows Mandate authorities to hold entire villages or tribes responsible for crimes committed by “persons unknown” and thus to impose collective fines...

At a time when the Palestinian delegation in London makes its case against the Balfour Declaration, Winston Churchill, then-Secretary of State for the Colonies, publishes a White Paper detailing the...

The Palestinian delegation, which has stayed in London since July 1921 to defend Palestinian rights, rejects Churchill White Paper (1922) (3 June) and the draft of the Mandate administration over...

The Council of the League of Nations confirms Britain ’s mandate over Palestine.