January

February

• 07 February 1799: The French expedition led by Napoleon was initiated in order to invade and occupy Palestine.
• 21 February 1927: The British minister of settlements announced that the Palestinian currency would replace the Egyptian.
• 07 February 1939: The Round Table Conference was held in London between some Arab delegations and a Jewish delegation.
• 14 February 1947: The British government announced that the Palestinian question "cause" would be referred to the United Nations.
• 28 February 1955: The Israeli forces attacked the Gaza Strip and shot down 38 martyrs and injured countless others.
• 08 February 1976: An Israeli court allowed the Jews to pray on the mountain of Al Haykal in the Holy Shrine of Jerusalem.
• 07 February 1983: Kahan committee submitted a report on the massacre that took place at Sabra and Shatilla indicating that Sharon was responsible for it, so he resigned from the ministry of defense but he remained in the cabinet.
• 02 February 1988: The Israeli forces closed the Palestinian schools and university.
• 24 February 1994: Israeli terrorist Goldstein massacred worshippers performing Friday dawn prayers at the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron with the help of Israeli police forces.
• 07 February 1995: The first State security court was established by Yasser Arafat, the chief of the Palestinian Authority.

March

• 27 March 1939: The leader of the Second Great Rebellion, Abderraheem Al Haj Mohammed was martyred, and the British soldiers saluted him even though he was dead.
• 03 March 1948: Haim Weisman was promised by the American president Harry Truman that the latter would help the Jews to establish their State with full recognition.
• 11 March 1948: Anthon David, a young Palestinian working as a driver for the American ambassador, bombed the Jewish Agency killing 36 and injuring hundreds.
• 19 March 1948: The UN Security Council approved an American proposal to abolish the division resolution.
• 10 March 1949: The Israeli forces occupied the village of Um Al Rashrash (Elat) after they had occupied Al Naqab.
• 14 March 1957: The Israeli forces completely withdrew from the Gaza Strip after the Triplex invasion against Egypt.
• 09 March 1959: The Arab League suggested a conference to recognize Palestine as a united entity and nation.
• 21 March 1968: Al Karameh battle took place when both Jordanian and Palestinian forces repelled and defeated the Israeli forces incurring great losses.
• 08 March 1969: The Attrition War between Israel and Egypt began on the Suez Canal front.
• 26 March 1979: The peace treaty between Israel and Egypt was signed by President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in Washington, Camp David, under the patronage of the United States of America.
• 06 March 1991: The USA drew up a peace initiative to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict.
• 12 March 1996: A conference was held in Sharm Al Sheikh to condemn all forms of terrorism, and considered the daring martyr operations against Israeli forces as terrorist acts. They also decided to chase and suppress the resistance movements all over Palestine.

April

• 20 April 1779: Napoleon called for the Jews all over the world to join his forces so they could enter Palestine easily.
• 27 April 1909: Sultan Abdel Hameed was dethroned by the Turkish Society members, which marked the end of the Islamic Caliphate because he prevented the Jews from entering Palestine in 1900.
• 4-10 April 1920: The rebellion of Al Nabi Mousa or the rebellion of the Twenty broke out.
• 26 April 1920: San Remo conference was held to confirm the Balfour Promise for the Jews to establish their State.
• 15 April 1936: The great rebellion broke out throughout Palestine and ended in October.
• 05 April 1945: The American president Roosevelt announced that the USA would not take any political procedures without referring to the Arab States, and the USA would not be against the Arabs in the Palestinian question.
• 02 April 1947: The British government asked the Secretary General of the UN to include the Palestinian question in the agenda of the General Assembly meeting.
• 09 April 1948: The great leader Abdel Qader Al Hussien was martyred.
• 09 April 1948: Deir Yassin massacre was committed by the terrorist Menachem Begin and his gangsters. More than 250 Palestinian were killed, mainly old people, women and children.
• 17 April 1948: The General Assembly of the UN agreed on the truce resolution between the Israelis and the Arabs after the 1948 war.
• 20 April 1948: The executive committee of the Zionist movement elected David Ben Gurion as president and defence director to replace the British.
• 23 April 1948: A conference was held in Amman by several Arab ministers and prime ministers to approve the participation of the Arab armies in the 1948 war or the Rescue War in Palestine.
• 24 April 1950: The two Banks of the Jordan River were unified in one State in a conference held in Jericho.
• 09 April 1969: The end of UN Deputy Yaring's initiative. Hoever, he failed to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict.
• 13 April 1975: The civil war began in Lebanon between the Christians and the Muslims.
• 19 April 1979: The women of Keryat Arba'a occupied Beit Hadassa in Hebron to revive the Jewish quarters in the city.
• 10 April 1988: Several members of the Palestinian police in Gaza and the West Bank resigned.
• 16 April 1988: Mr. Khaleel Al Wazeer (Abu Jehad) was assassinated by the Israeli special force led by Yahoud Parak in Tunis.
• 02 April 1995: Kamal Khaleel, the leader of Ezzul Deen Al Qassam Brigades, was assassinated in Gaza.
• 11 April 1995: The Palestinian minister of justice, Freih Abu Madein, decided to disarm the Palestinians in order to weaken the Islamic resistance.
• 24 April 1996: The National Palestinian Council was held in Gaza to abolish the items of the National Charter that are against Israel.

May

• 02 May 1799: The end of the French expedition after Napoleon had failed to conquer Akka.
• 16 May 1916: Sicous-Picot agreement was signed by Britain and France to divide Palestine.
• 1-5 May 1921: Jaffa rebellion broke out when the British supported the Jews against the Palestinians.
• 17 May 1939: The British government issued the White Book in which they divided Palestine into three regions: Jewish, Arabic and International or Neutral.
• 10 May 1946: The American secretary of state deputy Dean Etchison was sent to five Arab States to assure them that the USA would not take any decisions concerning the Anglo-American investigating committee without referring to both Arabs and Israelis.
• 28-29 May 1946: A conference was held by the Arab leaders in Anshasi, Egypt, to discuss the Palestinian question.
• 21 May 1947: A group of Al Hagana terrorists attacked a coffee shop at Faja near Btah Tekfa, killing a Palestinian and injuring 17 others; they also put explosives all over the area.
• 09 May 1948: The Arabs adopted the truce treaty with the Israelis.
• 14 May 1948: The temporal state council of Israel declared the new Israeli State.
• 15 May 1948: The Arab armies, known as Rescue Army, entered Palestine.
• 15 May 1948: The USA recognized the new Israeli State.
• 18 May 1948: The USSR also recognized the new Israeli State.
• 11 May 1949: Israel was accepted as a member of the United Nations.
• 12 May 1949: Lozan Protocol was signed by Israel and some Arab States such as Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
• 28 May 1964: The first National Palestinian Council was held in Jerusalem to establish the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).
• 06 May 1974: The Israeli forces began shelling the Palestinian camps in Lebanon.
• 22 May 1975: Yasser Arafat announced that he had not had any hostility toward Israel, and he is keen on establishing a democratic State for both Arabs and Israelis.
• 20 May 1985: The Israeli forces released 1,145 Palestinian captives for releasing three Israeli soldiers that had been confined by the members of the People's Front--the Headquarters, in Al Jaleel operation.
• 15 May 1989: The Israeli forces arrested Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, accusing him of establishing the Islamic resistance movement "HAMAS".
• 04 May 1994: Israel and the PLO signed in Cairo the Palestinian autonomy agreement in Gaza and Jericho.
• 18 May 1994: The first troops of the Palestinian police entered Gaza and Jericho.
• 23 May 1994: The first crime of murder committed by the Palestinian police forces against a Palestinian citizen.
• 29 May 1996: Israeli Likud Party presided by Netanyahu took over authorities in Israel.

June

• 10 June 1919: King-Krine committee began its operations in Palestine to find out about the good intentions of the Arab States.
• 05 June 1921: The Palestinian conference was held in Jerusalem to send a delegation to London to explain the Palestinians' attitude toward the Balfour Promise.
• 17 June 1930: Three heroes of Al Buraq rebellion were executed: Ata Al Wazeer, Mohammed Jamjoum and Fuad Hejazi at Akka prison.
• 11 June 1948: The first truce treaty was signed by the Arabs and the Israelis after the 1948 war, which was considered as recognition of the new Israeli State.
• 26 June 1953: The Israelis transferred the property of the absentees to the department of development and reckoned its price as a loan.
• 05 June 1967: The Israeli fighters raided ten Arab air bases in Egypt, as well as Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
• 07 June 1967: The Israeli forces occupied the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights.
• 27 June 1967: The Israeli Parliament decided to annex East Jerusalem and authorized the government to carry out this order.
• 28 June 1967: The Israeli minister of interior declared the annexation of some parts of Jerusalem to unify the whole city.
• 06 June 1982: The Israeli forces began attacking south Lebanon to destroy the infrastructure of the PLO installations.

July

• 15July1099: The Crusaders occupied Jerusalem and killed more than 70,000 Muslims around Al Aqsa.
• 01 July 1920: The British Mandate was started in Palestine by appointing Herbert Samuel as the first Supreme Deputy in Palestine.
• 06 July 1921: The UN approved the British Mandate in Palestine.
• 03 July 1922: The British government issued the second "White Book" to interpret the Balfour Promise and to assure the Arabs of their good intentions by their Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
• 24 July 1922: The UN approved the British Mandate in Palestine.
• 07 July 1936: Bill British Committee recommended dividing Palestine into an Arab and Israeli State.
• 01 July 1942: The British minister of settlements declared that the Jewish defense organizations are the same as the National Guard in Britain.
• 22 July 1946: King David Hotel in Jerusalem was blown up by the Argon gangsters result in the killing of 95 Arabs and Jews.
• 30 July 1980: The Israeli Parliament declared Jerusalem the unified capital of Israel.
• 31 July 1988: King Hussein of Jordan declared the legal disengagement between the two Banks after a 38-year consolidation.
• 01 July 1994: Yasser Arafat, the PLO chief, entered Gaza as president of the Palestinian Authority.
• 05 July 1994: The members of the Palestinian Authority took a legal oath in front of Yasser Arafat in Jericho.
• 24 July 1995: The American authorities arrested Dr. Mousa Abu Marzook, the chief of the political wing of HAMAS, at JFK in New York, USA.

August

• 12 August 636: The Romans were defeated by the Muslims in Al Yarmouk Battle, so Palestine has been a part of the Islamic State since then.
• 29 August 1897: The first Zionist conference was held in Basl, Switzerland, presided by Haim Hertzl, who had chosen Palestine as a homeland for the Jews.
• 10 August 1922: The British government issued the Palestinian constitution preceded by a statement of the Balfour Promise.
• 14 August 1922: Herbert Samuel became the first British Supreme Deputy in Palestine.
• 02 August 1926: The British Minister of Settlements issued new Palestinian currency, and created a currency committee.
• 16 August 1929: The rebellion of Al Buraq broke out.
• 30 August 1945: The American president Harry Truman asked for permission to allow hundreds of thousands to enter Palestine.
• 14 August 1947: The American president Harry Truman put forward his proposal to the British. The proposal was approved at the Zionist conference in Paris, and it granted the Jews the International Zone according to Bill Proposal, in addition to Al Naqab.
• 31 August 1947: The UN special committee completed its report about Palestine and presented it to the General Assembly of the UN.
• 21 August 1969: Al Aqsa Mosque was set on fire by the Australian tourist Michael Rohan, urged by the Israelis.
• 08 August 1970: The attrition war between Egypt and Israel was stopped.
• 12-13 August 1976: The massacre of Tel Al Za'ater was committed by the Christian Militia in collaboration with the Israeli forces.
• 06 August 1982: The Israeli forces entered west Beirut.
• 02 August 1985: The Israeli forces adopted the steel-fist policy against the Palestinian protests.
• 18 August 1988: The Charter of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) was declared.
• 14 August 1994: The Palestinian Authority forces arrested several Palestinians who opposed the peace process along with members of HAMAS.

September

•  6 September 1260: The Mamlouks defeated Tattar in Ein Jalout Battle in north Palestine.
• 29 September 1923: The British Mandate in Palestine went into effect.
• 13 September 1929: The British government appointed a committee presided by the chief judge Walter Shaw and three other members to investigate the reasons behind Al Buraq rebellion.
• 10 September 1947: The first conference about Palestine was held and attended by Arab and British delegations except the Palestinians.
• 17 September 1948: The Zionist gangsters shot down the UN peace mediator, Count Folk Bernadot.
• 1 September 1951: Sea navigation was prohibited through the Suez Canal.
• 19 September 1963: Mr. Ahmed Al Shuqeiry was appointed as a Palestinian representative for the Arab League.
• 19 September 1970: The conflict between the Palestinian forces and the Jordanian army broke out, known as Fitneh.
• 18 September 1978: Camp David peace treaty was signed by the Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and the Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin under the patronage of the USA president Jimmy Carter.
• 16 September 1979: The Israeli government allowed the Jews to buy the Arab land and estates.
• 22 September 1981: The Palestinian occupied territories were ruled by the Israeli civil laws.
• 17 September 1982: Sabra and Shatilla massacre was carried out by the Israeli forces aided by the Christian militia.
• 13 September 1993: Oslo Principles Treaty was signed by the Israelis and the Palestinians.
• 24 September 1995: Taba transitional treaty was signed by Yasser Arafat and Shamon Perez in Cairo about the execution of the National Authority in the occupied territories.
• 25 September 1997: Mr. Khaled Misha'al, the chief of the political wing of HAMAS, escaped an assassination attempt planned by the Israeli Intelligence agents in Amman.

October

• 02 October1187: Saladin restored Jerusalem from the Crusaders.
• 20 October 1920: Herbert Samuel, the British supreme deputy in Palestine, began his efforts to encourage the Jews to buy more land and estates.
• 31 October 1930: Another "White Book" was issued by the British minister of settlements, Lord Basfield, limiting the number of emigrant Jews to Palestine.
• 10 October 1933: The great Jerusalem demonstration broke out to protest the miserable conditions in Palestine.
• 27 October 1933: Mr. Mousa Kathem Al Husseini was shot down as a martyr in the great demonstration in Jaffa.
• 12 October 1936: The end of the great rebellion.
• 02 October 1937: The second great rebellion broke out and lasted till 1939.
• 7-11 October 1938: An Arab-Islamic conference was held by an Egyptian committee in Cairo to condemn and decry the Balfour Promise.
• 01 October 1948: Palestine was declared independent by the supreme Arab Board.
• 14-15 October 1952: The Israeli forces committed a massacre in the village of Qebya west of Ramallah, and killed 42 people and destroyed 41 houses.
• 06 October 1973: Ramadan War broke out against Israel on the Syrian and Egyptian fronts.
• 17 October 1973: Oil was used as a weapon against the West by the Arabs in Kuwait by decreasing the production 5% monthly.
• 22 October 1973: The Security Council issued its resolution No. 338 to confirm a cease fire between the Arabs and the Israelis asking them to abide by resolution No. 242.
• 14 October 1974: The General Assembly adopted resolution No. 3210 inviting the PLO to take part in the debate.
• 28 October 1974: Al Rebat Summit Conference was held and the PLO was recognized as the legal representative for the Palestinians.
• 08 October 1990: More than 30 Muslims were shot down as martyrs and 115 were injured by the Israeli forces around Al Aqsa.
• 30 October 1991: Madrid peace conference was held by the Arabs and the Israelis, patronized by the USA and the USSR.
• 26 October 1994: The peace treaty was signed by the Israelis and the Jordanians under the patronage of the American president Bill Clinton.
• 26 October 1995: Mr. Fathi Al Sheqaqy, the chief of the Islamic Jehad, was shot down as a martyr in Malta by the Israeli Intelligence agents.
• 01 October 1997: Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was released by the Israeli forces.
• 06 October 1997: Sheikh Ahmed Yassin came back home after having been hospitalized in Amman.

November

• 02 November 1917: Britain issued the Balfour Promise to establish the Jewish State in Palestine.
• 19 November 1935: Sheikh Ezzul Deen Al Qassam was shot down as a martyr at Ya'bad woods.
• 11 November 1936: A Royal British committee, "Bill committee", arrived in Palestine to investigate the reasons behind the great rebellion.
• 28 November 1937: Sheikh Farhan Al Sa'ady was executed by the British when he was 80 years old and while he was fasting. He is the comrade of Sheikh Ezzul Deen Al Qassam.
• 13 November 1945: An Anglo-American committee was formed to investigate the conditions of the Jews who were persecuted by the Nazis in Europe, and to find out about their socio-economic and political conditions in Palestine.
• 13 November 1947: The British representative at the UN declared that Britain would have to withdraw from Palestine by May.
• 29 November 1947: The UN voted on the division resolution of Palestine: 33 members supported it, 13 opposed, and 10 were neutral. An international committee was formed to take over the British authorities in Palestine.
• 13 November 1966: The Israeli forces attacked Al Samou', a village near Hebron, and killed 18 people, injured 54 people and destroyed 125 houses.
• 04 November 1966: The joint defense treaty was signed by Egypt and Syria against Israel.
• 22 November 1967: The Security Council issued resolution No. 242 in which Israel was called upon to withdraw from the territories occupied in the June war of 1967.
• 29 November 1967: The UN delegate Yaring began his 15-round peace initiative to settle down the Arab-Israeli conflict.
• 05 November 1973: The American Secretary of State Richard Nixon began his peace initiative to disengage the Syrian, Egyptian and Israeli forces after the Ramadan war.
• 27 November 1973: The PLO was recognized as the sole legal representative of the Palestinians at the Arab Summit Conference in Algeria.
• 10 November 1975: The General Assembly of the UN adopted resolution No. 3379, which considers Zionism a racial movement.
• 19 November 1977: The Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was the first Arab leader to enter Israel since it was founded.
• 01 November 1981: The application of civil management in the West Bank and Gaza Strip presided by Menachem Milson.
• 15 November 1988: The Palestinian State was declared by the National Palestinian Council held in Algeria. This State consists of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Jerusalem is its capital. The declaration is an implicit recognition of the Israeli State comprising the rest of Palestine.
• 24 November 1993: Mr. Emad Aqel, a prominent member of HAMAS, was shot down as a martyr in a confrontation with the Israeli forces.
• 18 November 1994: The Palestinian police killed 12 Palestinians and wounded 200 in a protest after Friday's prayers in Gaza.
• 04 November 1995: Mr. Ishha'ac Rabin, the Israeli ex-Prime Minister, was assassinated by the extremist Yegal Amir. This was the first politically-driven assassination in Israel.

December

• 09 December 1917: The British General Allenby occupied Jerusalem.
• 07 December 1931: The Islamic conference was opened in Al Aqsa to defend and protect the Holy Shrine in Jerusalem.
• 18 December 1947: The Supreme Arab Board was formed at the conference held in Bloudan, Syria.
• 25 December 1947: The Holy War Troops (Al Jehad Al Muqades) were formed in Palestine presided by the leader Abdel Qader Al Husseini.
• 08 December 1949: The UN formed UNRWA to look after and employ the Palestinian refugees in the neighbouring countries.
• 16 December 1949: David Ben Gurion, the Israeli Prime Minister, declared Jerusalem as the unified capital of Israel.
• 21 December 1973: The peace conference was held in Geneva, Switzerland, by the Arabs and the Israelis, patronized by the USA and the USSR.
• 09 December 1987: The starting of the Palestinian Blessed Intifadah.
• 14 December 1987: The Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) was declared by issuing its first manifestation "statement" about the Intifadah.
• 14 December 1988: The USA decided to take up a dialogue and debate with the PLO.
• 17 December 1992: Four hundred and fifteen members of HAMAS were deported by the Israeli forces to Marj Al Zuhour in South Lebanon.

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