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Middle East

  • 100

    1250 BC. Israelites conquered and settled in Canaan

    Year 1250 BC
  • 101

    586 BC. Babylonians conquered the southern part of the kingdom

    Year 586 BC
  • 102

    63 BC. Judea became part of the Roman Empire

  • 103

    70 BC. Jewish revolt against Roman Rule

  • 103

    Jewish were expelled from the territory

  • First Zionist congress in Switzerland

  • World War I starts

  • Sir Henry McMahon promised independence to Ottoman provinces

  • Winner countries had a conference in San Remo, Italy

  • Jewish population alone accounted for 11% of that of Palestine

  • Peel Commission from Britain

    reports that great tension exists between Jews and Muslims and suggests a plan of partition for the region.
  • Israel declares its independence

  • Period: to

    Israel invaded Egypt

    The UN, backed by the United States and the Soviet Union, ended the war and forced the invading nations to leave Egypt, but Israel only abandoned Gaza when the US promised to help keep the Strait of Tiran open.
  • Syria gains its independence

  • Period: to

    The Six-Day War between Israel and an alliance of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan occured

  • On Yom Kippur, Egypt and Syria entered Israel

  • Period: to

    UN Resolutions 338 and 339 called for an immediate end to the Yom Kippur War

  • Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel

  • Period: to

    Iran, Iraq demanded a renegotiation of the treaty between them

  • Iraq invaded and quickly took over Kuwait.

  • UN demanded that Iraq withdraw from Kuwait

  • Israel and the PLO, the two groups finally made a breakthrough after nearly two years of negotiations

  • The Washington Declaration was produced out of the first public meeting between Prime Minister Rabin of Israel and King Hussein of Jordan.

  • A Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty is signed following the Washington Declaration

  • The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, is assasinated by a Jew who is opposed to his liberal policies on the peace process.

  • The UN agrees to allow Iraq to sell some oil

  • Benyamin Netanyahu is elected Prime Minister of Israel by a slim margin over Shimon Peres.

  • Arab Muslims conquered the area