1st Palestine Arab Women's Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

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...

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

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.

The Shaw Commission of Inquiry publishes its report on al-Buraq Disturbances.

The British Colonial Secretary, Lord Passfield, appoints Sir John Hope Simpson to go to Palestine to confer with the High Commissioner and examine "on the spot" the questions of immigration, land...

Atta al-Zeer, Fouad Hijazi, and Muhammad Jamjoum, who had participated in the al-Buraq Disturbances (August 1929), are hanged by the British authorities in Acre Prison.

British Colonial Secretary Lord Passfield adopts a White Paper, confirming the views expressed in the John Hope Simpson and Shaw Commission reports, asserting that "in estimating the absorptive...