Palestine, Late Ottoman period, to 1917
From the late Ottoman period to today, fact by fact and source by source.
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- 1 Aug 1914to 9 Dec 1917Thin record: Life inside Palestine during the First World War
Conscription, requisitions, hunger and the 1915 locust plague are barely recorded here yet. Salim Tamari's Year of the Locust, built on the diary of the Jerusalem soldier Ihsan Hasan al-Turjman, is a place to start.
- 24 October 1915McMahon's letter to Sharif Hussein of Mecca
Letter from the British High Commissioner in Egypt to the Sharif of Mecca setting out the area Britain would recognise for Arab independence, with reservations.
Diplomacy & law4 sources4 independent roots1 open question - May 1916date uncertainSykes–Picot Agreement
Secret Anglo-French understanding dividing Ottoman Arab provinces into zones of control and influence.
Diplomacy & law1 source1 independent root - 2 November 1917Balfour Declaration
Letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild stating British policy on a Jewish national home in Palestine.
Diplomacy & law1 source1 independent root - 1 Dec 1917to 31 Dec 1917Mentioned but missing: British capture of Jerusalem, December 1917
Later documents rest on it, but it is not yet an event on the timeline. It needs a primary source.