Appointment of the Peel Commission

Announced in Germany, the Nuremberg Laws trigger massive Jewish immigration.

The formation of the National Bloc Party is announced in Nablus at the initiative of Abd al-Latif Salah (who is elected president of the party), Abd al-Fattah Touqan, Hamdi al-Husseini, Said...

Leaders of Palestinian political parties submit a joint memorandum to the British High Commissioner requesting the following: (1) establishment of democratic government in accordance with the League...

The British high commissioner imposed emergency rules authorizing curfews, censorship, deportations and arrests without warrants.

The Arab Higher Committee (AHC) is formed to lead the Palestinian Revolt.

All Palestinian senior officials, without exception and including judges, sign a joint memorandum protesting British pro-Zionist policies and submit it to the High Commissioner.

The ordinance gives the district commissioner the right to levy collective fines in cash or kind (livestock, produce such as cereals) upon all the inhabitants of a town or a village, if an offense has...

Lebanese-born Fawzi al-Qawuqji (an officer in the Iraqi army) and 150 volunteers from surrounding Arab countries enter Palestine to aid the rebellion against the British.

As if the powers vested in the High Commissioner by the Palestine (Defence) Order in Council, 1931, were not sufficient to quell the Palestinian Rebellion, the King's Privy Council in London adopts...

The AHC agrees to call off the general strike and to appear before the Peel Commission following intervention by the kings of Saudi Arabia and Iraq and the Emir of Transjordan.