Timeline in 1926

Because the background of events leading to the Zionist settlement in Palestine is so wide, the geographical scope of this timeline includes events outside the immediate theatre of Palestine.


  1926
15 Dec 1926: Palestine and East Africa Loans Act

   Jun 1926: Disbanding of British Gendarmerie in Palestine

25 May 1926: Assassination of Symon Petliura in Paris

01 Apr 1926: Balfour inaugurates the Hebrew University
   Apr 1926: Jouvenel proposes Zionist settlement in the French Levant to Weizmann and Kisch

02 Feb 1926: 1926 Anglo-French agreement on Syria-Palestine frontier

08 Jan 1926: Abdul Aziz ibn Saud assumes throne of Hejaz

       1926: Greece imposes Sunday-closing on Salonika


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