Time Line to 1947
| 1897 | First Zionist Congress, convened by Theodore Herzl, Basel, Switzerland. |
| 1909 | First kibbutz, Degania, established. City of Tel Aviv founded. |
| 1917 | British conquest of Palestine ended 400 years of Ottoman rule. Balfour Declaration issued. |
| 1922 | League of Nations granted to UK the Mandate for Palestine. The nation of Transjordan was set up. |
| 1929 | Massacre of Hebron Jews. |
| 1939 | British White Paper severely limited Jewish immigration into Palestine. |
| 1939 | World War II. Holocaust. |
| 1942 | Biltmore Conference. |
| 1947 | UN proposed partition of Palestine into a Jewish and an "Arab" state. How did the fighting start? |
See also Time Lines 1948-1979, 1981-1996, 1997-2007, and 2008-2013.
| Boycott | Help for Palestinians | Negotiations | Nuclear-free Middle East | Prophets and Reconcilers |
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