Palestinian Refugees
Chronology of events before the Nakba: 1876 - 1918 Sunday, 22 November 2009 12:52 |   
 Aqaba, 1917:Troops of the Arab Revolt, "Before Their Diaspora"
* Chronology compiled from sources in the Bibliography section
1876 - 1877
* Ottoman constitution promulgated. Palestinian deputies from Jerusalem attend the first Ottoman parliament in Istanbul, elected under a new Ottoman constitut…Read more... Add new comment
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Chronology of events before the Nakba: 1918 - 1935 Sunday, 22 November 2009 12:41 |
 Abu Ghosh, about fourteen kilometers from Jerusalem, on the road to Jaffa. "Before their Diaspora"
1918
* Palestine occupied by Allied forces under British General Allenby.
* End of World War I.Chronology of events before the Nakba: 1936 -1939 Sunday, 22 November 2009 12:34 |
 Residents of Abu Ghosh, a village west of Jerusalem, taking the oath of allegiance to the Arab higher Comittee, April 1936. "Before Their Diaspora"
1936
* Legislative Council proposal defeated by pro-Zionist members in British House of Common. |
Chronology of events before the Nakba: 1939 - 1947 Sunday, 22 November 2009 12:20 |
 1939
* London Conference ends with no agreement reached. * Malcom MacDonald, Colonial Secretary of State, issues White Paper of 1939 embodying British solution to Palestine problem: conditional independence for unitary Palestinian state after ten years; admission of 15,000 Jewish immigrants annuall…Distribution of Population in 1946 Friday, 04 September 2009 11:43 |
 The source of this map [from which this information is extracted] is the Supplement to a Survey of Palestine (Jerusalem: Government Printer, June 1947). It was subsequently published as United Nations map no. 93(b) in August 1950.
According to British sources, the semi-sedentary Bedouin population … |
