Islamic Conference in Defense of al-Buraq and Muslim Holy Places in Jerusalem

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...

A devastating earthquake hits Palestine.

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,...

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...

The timing of the ordinance constitutes another British response to the disturbances at al-Buraq.

About 300 women representing various parts of Palestine meet in Jerusalem in the first Palestine Arab Women's Congress, in the wake of al-Buraq/ Western Wall clashes in August and the repressive...

At the initiative of the Palestine Arab Workers Society (PAWS), 61 delegates representing 3,020 workers take part in the conference, from Haifa, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Acre, Nazareth, Lydda and Shefa-Amr.