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.

Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.

World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.

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".

In Palestine, Field Marshal Edmund Allenby captures Jerusalem.

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 Arab-Israeli War: Haifa, the major port of Palestine, is captured from Arab forces.

President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.

The beginning of the Palestinian civil disobedience uprising, "The First Intifada" against the Israeli occupation.

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.