Great Britain Issues the Palestine Martial Law (Defence) Order in Council, 1936

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

A Royal Commission (Peel Commission ) is appointed to investigate the causes of the rebellion.

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.

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.

A group of Zionists in the Baysan region devise a plan to establish a fortified settlement that consists of barracks protected by wooden walls and an observation tower; they plan to position and...

The new criminal code of 1936 technically replaces the Ottoman Penal Code, which, though heavily amended by British ordinances, had officially served as the basis for adjudicating criminal offences in...

The Peel Commission that was formed in May 1936 to investigate the causes of the Palestinian rebellion, adopts its report.

The AHC rejects the Peel Commission ’s partition proposal and demands an independent unitary Palestinian state "with protection of all legitimate Jewish and other minority rights and the...