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Palestine

90 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for Palestine, 1977 CE to 2011 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

20th century

69 entries, 1977 CE to 1999 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 1977The Israeli settlement of Beit El is established.Palestinesource
  • 19773 May: Two Palestinians die and six Israelis are injured in an outbreak of unrest on the West Bank sparked by a Gush Emunim announcement that it intended to establish more settlements.Palestinesource
  • 198122 April: The Israeli government indicates that it may be willing to back down from its controversial plans to takeover the Palestinian Jerusalem District Electricity Company.Palestinesource
  • 198117 November: Yusuf Khatib, head of the Ramallah Village League, and his son are assassinated by Palestinian militants. Following the assassination, the Israeli government begins distributing weapons to Village League members.Palestinesource
  • 1984Ahmad Balshe (Belly), Palestinian-Canadian rapper and singer.Palestinesource
  • 198511 February – PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and King Hussein of Jordan sign the Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement.Palestinesource
  • 198528 August: Israeli authorities begin the first major series of arrests of Palestinians under the Iron Fist policy. Over the next few days, dozens of Palestinians would be placed in administrative detention under suspicion of subversive activity, and roadblocks would be erected across the West Bank.Palestinesource
  • 198619 February: King Hussein of Jordan declares the failure of the Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement signed in 1985. In his declaration, Hussein accuses the PLO of breaking their promise to recognise United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 and United Nations Security Council Resolution 338.Palestinesource
  • 198622 October: The Israeli Hadassah Medical Organization establishes a liaison office with the Israeli Civil Administration to improve healthcare in the occupied Palestinian territories. The same day, the Israeli government appoints Tahir Hijazi as Mayor of Anabta.Palestinesource
  • 198623 May: Meron Benvenisti's West Bank Data Base Project publishes a report warning that conditions in the Gaza Strip were significantly deteroriating.Palestinesource
  • 198722 January: Birzeit University student elections are held. The leftist-nationalist bloc wins 41.5% of the vote, the Islamist bloc 34%, and the Marxist bloc 24.5%.Palestinesource
  • 198720 April: The Palestine National Council begins a week-long meeting in Algiers to try and reconcile the schisms between the different PLO factions.Palestinesource
  • 19878 December: Israeli truck driver collides with two taxis carrying workers returning from work in Israel. Four Palestinians from the refugee camp Jabalia in the Gaza Strip are killed in the incident. A rumor which spread among Palestinians that the crash was deliberate and made in retaliation for the murder of an Israeli businessman in Gaza City two days earlier, sparked the First Intifada the next day.Palestinesource
  • 198731 March: Land Day is marked by demonstrations across the occupied Palestinian territories and by some Arab citizens of Israel.Palestinesource
  • 198818 August – Hamas issues their Charter which outlines the organization's founding identity, positions, and aims.Palestinesource
  • 198919 May – First Intifada: The Palestinian leader Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, was arrested by Israel. Yassin was later on sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement in attacks against Israelis.Palestinesource
  • 198910 April – Lone gunman wearing an Israeli army-issue uniform shot down four Arabs outside Jerusalem's Old City with a sub-machine gun. Sicarii claims responsibility for the shooting.Palestinesource
  • 19896 July – Tel Aviv Jerusalem bus 405 attack: The first Palestinian Arab suicide attack is carried out inside Israel's borders on a crowded Egged bus when a Palestinian Islamic Jihad member seizes the steering wheel from the driver and pulls the bus over a steep precipice into a ravine in the area of Qiryat Ye'arim. 16 passengers are killed.Palestinesource
  • 199017 July – Palestinian president Yasser Arafat marries Suha Arafat in a secret ceremony on her 27th birthday when he was 61 years old. Her mother, Raymonda Tawil, introduced her to him in France, after which she worked as his secretary in Tunis. Their marriage was not announced until 1992. Suha Arafat becomes First Lady of Palestine.Palestinesource
  • 199224 May – Murder of Helena Rapp: 18-year-old Palestinian Fuad Muhammad Abdulhadi Amrin stabbed to death 15-year-old Israeli Helena Rapp. Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.Palestinesource
  • 199313 September – The First Intifada ends with the signing of the Oslo I Accord.Palestinesource
  • 19941 July – Palestinian President Yasser Arafat returns to Palestine after 27 years of exile by crossing the border from Egypt to the Gaza Strip, arriving first in Rafah and then Gaza City.Palestinesource
  • 199528 September – The Oslo II Accord is officially signed at a public ceremony in Washington, DC by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and witnessed by US President Bill Clinton, which includes provision for the transfer of control of Bethlehem, Jenin, Nablus, Qalqilya, Ramallah, Tulkarm and some 450 villages to the Palestinian Authority.Palestinesource
  • 199624 September – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorize the opening of an exit in the Arab Quarter of Jerusalem for the Western Wall Tunnel, which prior Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres had instructed to be put on hold for the sake of peace. This sparked violent riots throughout the West Bank and northern Gaza Strip. Over the subsequent three days, 16 Israeli soldiers and about 60 Palestinians were killed in the riots.Palestinesource
  • 1997Markaz Shabab Al-Am'ari was in the 1997 Arab Club Champions Cup.Palestinesource

21st century

21 entries, 2001 CE to 2011 CE

  • 2001May 31 - Faisal Husseini, 60, Iraqi-born Palestinian politician and senior member of PLO.Palestinesource
  • 2001August 27 - Abu Ali Mustafa, 63 Palestinian politician, member of the PLO executive.Palestinesource
  • 2001September 9 – Nahariya Railway Station bombing: an Arab-Israeli who was sent by Hamas detonates himself on the crowded platform of the Nahariya Railway Station, killing 3 Israelis and injuring 94. Hamas claim responsibility.Palestinesource
  • 2001September 15 – Meir Weisshaus, 23, of Jerusalem, was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting on the Ramot-French Hill road.Palestinesource
  • 2001April 22 – Kfar Saba bombing: A Palestinian Arab suicide bomber kills an Israeli doctor of American origin in Kfar Saba and injures 60 others. Hamas claims responsibility.Palestinesource
  • 2001January 21–27 – Taba Summit: Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority aimed at reaching the "final status" of negotiations. Ehud Barak temporarily withdraws from negotiations during the Israeli elections, subsequently Ariel Sharon refuses to continue negotiating in the face of the newly erupted violence.Palestinesource
  • 2002April 15 – Palestinian political figure Marwan Barghouti is captured by the Israel Defense Forces in Palestinian Authority administered city of Ramallah.Palestinesource
  • 2003September 26 – A Palestinian Arab gunman enters a home in Negohot, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank near Hebron, and murders seven-month-old Shaked Avraham and 27-year-old Eyal Yeberbaum, and wounds both of the baby girl's parents as they are celebrating the Jewish New Year. The gunman is later killed by Israeli security forces. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for the attack.Palestinesource
  • 2003April 30 – Mike's Place bombing: A Muslim British citizen suicide bomber blows himself up at "Mike's Place", a Tel Aviv restaurant, killing four Israelis and injuring 50 others. Hamas and Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claim joint responsibility for the attack.Palestinesource
  • 2004November 11 - Yasser Arafat, 75, first President of the Palestinian National Authority, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and founder and leader of Fatah.Palestinesource
  • 2004April 26 – Deir al-Balah suicide attackPalestinesource
  • 2006July 5 – First Qassam rocket of increased strength is fired into the school yard in the Southern Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon. This has been the first instance of an increased distance Qassam rockets can reach and the first time a significantly large city has been attacked. No one was injured in this attack.Palestinesource
  • 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.Palestinesource
  • 2008August 25 – Israel releases 199 Palestinian Arab prisoners as a goodwill gesture to the President of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, as the United States Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, visits the area.Palestinesource
  • 2008January 1 – Israeli settlers from the Efrat and El'eazar settlements ignited a fire in a 700-year-old mosque situated on the lands of Al Khader village, close to the settlements near Bethlehem.Palestinesource
  • 2009May 11–15 – Pope Benedict XVI visits the Palestinian territories and Israel. During his visit, the pope condemned Holocaust denials and called for cooperation between the Palestinians and Israelis.Palestinesource
  • 2010September 14 – A second round of Middle East peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority concludes in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.Palestinesource
  • 2010February 3 – Elazar ben Tsedaka ben Yitzhaq, 83, Samaritan High Priest.Palestinesource
  • 2010The construction of the West Bank barrier will be completed.Palestinesource
  • 2010April 17 – Abdul Rahman Ahmed Jibril Baroud, c.73, Palestinian poet, heart attack.Palestinesource
  • 2011July 19 – The French-flagged yacht Dignité Al Karama, which was to have been part of the Freedom Flotilla II, is Illegally intercepted and boarded by Israeli commandos, off the coast of Gaza, and escorted to the Port of Ashdod.Palestinesource