636 Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of Syria and Palestine away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia.
1799 Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
1917 World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
1917 The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
1917 In Palestine, Field Marshal Edmund Allenby captures Jerusalem.
1921 Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan to colonize Palestine and creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.
1948 1948 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa, the major port of Palestine, is captured from Arab forces.
1956 President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
1987 The beginning of the Palestinian civil disobedience uprising, "The First Intifada" against the Israeli occupation.
1994 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.