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Palestine

A political entity that enjoys incomplete recognition as a state, located in West Asia

16 dated entries naming Palestine, drawn from 15 separate years between 1315 CE and 2024 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Occupied Palestinian territories, Palestine (state), Palestinian homeland, Palestinian state, Palestinian territories, State of Palestine in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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14th century

  • 1315March 8 – The Al-Shamah Mosque, in modern-day Gaza City in Palestine, is completed after being commissioned by the Mamluk Sultanate Governor of Gaza, Sanjar al-Jawli.source

20th century

  • 1926An earthquake causes significant damage and loss of life in Palestine and Transjordan, notably affecting Lydda, Ramleh, Nablus, Amman, and Es-Salt.source
  • 193316 June – Haim Arlosoroff (born 1899), Russian (Ukraine)-born left-wing Zionist leader, leader of the Labor Zionist movement in Palestine during the mandate period and head of the political department of the Jewish Agency. Assassinated.source
  • 194318 February - World War II: The Polish Anders Army arrived in Palestine, where many Polish Jews, including Menachem Begin, desert to work on establishing a Jewish state in Palestine. This becomes known as the 'Anders Aliyah'.source
  • 1970September 3–6 – Israeli forces fight Palestinian guerillas in southern Lebanon.source
  • 1970September 21 – Palestinian armed forces reinforce guerillas in Irbidi, Jordan.source
  • 1976January 27 – The United States vetoes a United Nations resolution that calls for an independent Palestinian state.source
  • 1988November 15 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed at the Palestinian National Council meeting in Algiers, by a vote of 253–46.source
  • 1996April 24 – At the urging of Yasser Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization drops its clause in Palestinian National Covenant calling for the removal of Israel (→ Legitimacy of the State of Israel). The Israeli government responds by dropping a similar clause concerning the existence of Palestine.source

21st century

  • 2007November 19 – Israel releases 450 Palestinian Arab prisoners as a goodwill gesture to the President of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, ahead of the 2007 Mideast peace conference with the Palestinian Authority.source
  • 200820 March – In a videotape, broadcast by Al Jazeera, the voice identified as Osama bin Laden declares "Iraq is the perfect base to set up the jihad to liberate Palestine."source
  • 2010April 17 – Abdul Rahman Ahmed Jibril Baroud, c.73, Palestinian poet, heart attack.source
  • 2012November 29 – The UN General Assembly approves a motion granting Palestine non-member observer state status.source
  • 2016December 23 – The United Nations Security Council adopts Resolution 2334 condemning "Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories occupied since 1967".source
  • 2020May 19 – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announces the termination of all agreements, including security ones, with Israel and the United States in response to Israel's plans to annex the Jordan Valley.source
  • 2024April 23 – Jamaica becomes the 140th UN member state to recognize the State of Palestine.source

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