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1400 - 1962
15th-19th Century
Palestine under Ottoman
rule as part of (southern) Syria.
1851
The area of northwest
Trans-Jordan, from the Yarmuk to the Zarqa' rivers organised
as the qada' of Ajlun
with its capital at Irbid and attached to the mutasarrifiyya of the
Hawran in Syria.
1876
First Ottoman parliament
convened in Constantinople and the first Palestinian
deputies from Jerusalem
elected.
1880
Ottoman administration
created mutasarrifiyya of Jerusalem.
1881
Nov.: Ottoman
government announces permission for foreign (non-Ottoman) Jews
to settle throughout
Ottoman Empire excl. Palestine.
1882
Baron Edmond de
Rothschild of Paris begins financial backing of Jewish
colonisation in
Palestine. Beginning of the first wave of Zionist mass immigration
to
Palestine.
July: Ottoman government adopts policy: allows Jewish
pilgrims and business-
people to visit
Palestine but not to settle.
1884
March: Ottoman
government decides to close Palestine to foreign (non-Ottoman)
Jewish business but not
to Jewish pilgrims.
1888
May: European
powers press Ottoman government to allow foreign (non-Ottoman)
Jews to settle in
Palestine provided they do so singly and not in masses.
1891
The first Palestinian
protest against Zionist aims.
1892
Novr: Ottoman
government forbids sale of state land to foreign (non-Ottoman) Jews
in Palestine.
1893
April: European
powers presses Ottoman government to permit Jews legally
residing in Palestine to
buy land provided they establish no colonies on it.
1896
Publication of "Der
Judenstaat" by Austrian Zionist leader Theodor Herzl, advocating
creation of Jewish state
in Argentina or Palestine. Ottoman Sultan Abd-al Hamid II
rejects Herzl's proposal
that Palestine be granted to the Jews: "I cannot give away
any part of it (the
Empire) ... I will not agree to vivisection."
1897
Aug.: First
Zionist Congress, meeting in Basel, Switzerland, issues the Basel
Program on Colonization
of Palestine and establishes the World Zionist
Organization (WZO). In
response to First Zionist Congress, Abd-al Hamid II initiates
policy of sending
members of his own palace staff to govern province of Jerusalem.
1898
- A section of old city
wall was removed to facilitate the entrance of Kaiser Wilhelm II of
Germany and his
entourage on their visit to Jerusalem.
- Arabic press reacts to First Zionist Congress. The Cairo journal
"Al-Manar" warns that
Zionism aims to
take possession of Palestine. |
