Powerful Earthquake in Palestine and Transjordan

Several Palestinian figures (including As'ad al-Shuqairi, Aref al-Dajani, Fakhri al-Nashashibi, Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi, Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti, and Boulos Shehadeh ) announce the establishment...

The Prevention of Crime (Tribal and Village Areas) Ordinance gives district governors the power to levy collective fines against tribes or villagers deemed to have abetted an offense or the offender’s...

Backing away from legislation passed 18 November 1918, the British authorities give retroactive legal recognition to land sold or negotiated for sale during the prohibition period (1918-1920) and...

After nearly five years of relative calm in Palestine, the British decide to disband the Palestine Gendarmerie, integrating a number of its former members into a newly reorganized Palestine Police...

The Mandate administration consolidates provisions of the Prevention of Crime Ordinance (1920), the Police Ordinance (1921) and the Collective Responsibility for Crime Ordinance (1922) to endow the...

The agreement (promised by the British in April 1923) recognizes the independent status of the Transjordanian government under the rule of its Emir, in accordance with the Palestine Mandate accorded...

Replicating a method used throughout their colonial possessions and first developed in Australia, the British authorities launch a settlement process aimed at improving the collection of taxes,...

Eight hundred Muslims from Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and Transjordan attend a special conference organized by the Supreme Moslem Council (headed by Muhammad Amin al-Husseini ).

The Mandate authorities remove all reference to the maintenance area hitherto guaranteed to tenants, which – although it wasn’t strictly enforced - limited the ability of the landowner to dispose of...

The British Authorities set up a commision of inquiry (the Shaw Commission ) to inquire into the immediate causes that had led to the al-Buraq Uprising / Western Wall disturbances, and to make...