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| 1799 |
| | | Napoleon, in Syria, orders 3000 captured defenders of Jaffa to be killed by bayonet or drowning to save ammunition | |
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| 1799 |
| | | In a famous moment of calculated courage Napoleon visits and touches the sick in a plague hospital in Jaffa | |
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| 1882 |
| | | The first settlements of European Jews, returning to the promised land, are established in Palestine | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Ten men and two women establish the first kibbutz, at Degania in Palestine | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Foreign Secretary A.J. Balfour declares Britain's conditional support for a homeland in Palestine for the Jews | |
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| 1917 November 7 |
| | | Edmund Allenby takes the Palestinian town of Gaza, at the third British attempt | |
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| 1917 December 9 |
| | | The British commander Edmund Allenby captures Jerusalem from its Turkish defenders | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The Haganah is set up as an underground military organization to protect Jewish settlements in Palestine | |
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| 1920 May |
| | | League of Nations mandates give Britain responsibility for Iraq, Transjordan and Palestine | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Arabs in the Palestinian town of Hebron turn on their Jewish neighbours and murder sixty-seven | |
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