1936
February 28 - The House of Commons of the United Kingdom votes against the High Commissioner's proposed Legislative Council.
March 25 - The House of Lords also reject the proposals.
April 15 - Following the murder of 3 Jews in a robbery near Tulkarm 2 Arabs are murdered near Petah Tiqva.
April 17 - During the funeral in Tel Aviv of one of the Jewish victims serious rioting breaks out in which 3 Jews are murdered. The Mandate authorities bring in Emergency Regulations by proclamation and curfews are imposed across Palestine.
April 20 - An Arab National Committee is formed in Nablus, subsequently other committees are formed in all the Arab towns and villages.
April 21 - Five main Palestinian Arab political parties call for a general strike.
April 25 - Arab Higher Committee established. It consists of members from all the Arab political parties, including Istiqlal and is led by Haj Amin al-Husseini. The committee calls for the strike to continue indefinitely.
May 6 - A meeting of the National Committees in Jerusalem announces a tax strike.
May 11 - British army reinforcements arrive from Egypt and Malta.
May/June - Jaffa port is closed, there are sporadic attacks on the railways and Jewish settlements. Armed bands appear in the hill country.
June 17 to 29 - large areas of Jaffa demolished by British Army.
August - Attempts by Amir Abdullah and Nuri Pasha fail to calm the situation. There is an increase in the number of attacks on Jews, and on the oil pipeline and the railways. In mid-August Jewish acts of retaliation begin.
August 25 - Fawzi al-Qawuqji enters Palestine with 150 volunteer fighters.
September 7 - An additional division of British troops arrives. General Dill becomes supreme military commander.
September 22 - The British army launches an offensive against Arab rebels.
October 11 - Ibn Saud, Amir Abdullah and King Ghazi appeal to the Arab Higher Committee to call off the strike.
November - The Arab Higher Committee calls an end to the strike. Casualty figures taken from hospital records give the number of people killed during the six months of disturbances as: 195 Arabs, 80 Jews, 21 Army, 16 Police and Frontier Police, and 2 non-Arab Christians. In addition over 1,000 Arab rebels were killed.
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