Timeline

1897 - First Zionist Congress

1897 - Address by Max Nordau to the First Zionist Congress

1917 - Balfour Declaration

1919 - Joint Arab-Israeli Agreement on Jewish homeland

1919 - Jewish proposal for Jewish homeland - presented by the Zionist Organisation to the Paris Peace Conference

1921 - Interim report on the civil administration of Palestine to the League of Nations on the condition of Palestine

1922 - British Mandate for Palestine - Official establishment of Transjordan as a separate state

1929 - Massacre of Jews in Hebron

1937 - Peel Commission Report

1938 - Proposed partition plan of Western Palestine

1939 - MacDonald White Paper - limits Jewish immigration to Palestine

1939 - Holocaust in Europe

1946 - Britain's partition plan

1947 - UN General Assembly Resolution 181 - the UN Partition Plan

1948 - Israel's War of Independence

1948 - UN General Assembly Resolution 194 - calls for cessation of hostilities

1948 - Israel's Declaration of Independence

1949 - Armistice Agreements

1951 - Assassination of Jordan's King Abdullah

1951 -1956 - Fedayeen Raids

1956 - Sinai Campaign & Suez Canal

1964 - PLO is founded by the Arab League in Cairo

1967 - Six Day War

1967 - Ceasefire Lines

1967 - UN Security Council Resolution 242

1969 -1970 - War of Attrition

1973 - UN Security Council Resolution 338

1973 - Yom Kippur War

1973 - Egyptian Attack

1973 - Syrian Attack

1974 - PLO adopts Phased Plan to destroy Israel

1978 - Israel-Egypt Camp David Accords

1978 - UN Security Council Resolution 425-Israel crosses into Lebanon

1979 - Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty

1982 - Operation Peace for Galilee-the Lebanon War

1987 - First Intifada Begins

1989 - Israeli Peace Initiative calls for a negotiating process

1990 -1991 - Gulf War

1991 - Madrid Peace Framework

1993 - Declaration of Principles (Oslo I)

1994 - Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat receive Nobel Peace Prize

1994 - Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty

1994 - Agreement on Preparatory Transfer of Powers and Responsibilities

1994 - Gaza-Jericho Agreement

1995 - Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

1995 - Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement (Oslo II)

1996 - Operation Grapes of Wrath

1997 - Hebron Protocol with the Palestinians

1998 - Wye River Memorandum

1999 - Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum

2000 - Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon

2000 - Second intifada begins

2000 - Camp David II - Trilateral Statement on the Middle East Peace Summit

2001 - Clinton Ideas for Peace

2001 - Taba Proposals

2001 - Tenet Ceasefire Plan

2001 - Mitchell Commission Report (based on the Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee)

2001 Present - The Security Fence

2002 - UN Security Council Resolution 1397

2003 - Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution

2003 Present - The Disengagement Plan

2004 - UN Security Council Resolution 1559 ? End of Syrian Occupation of Lebanon, Disarmament of Militias

2005 - Formation of Kadima party by PM Ariel Sharon

2005 - Disengagement from Gaza Strip and northern West Bank

2005 - Sharm el-Sheikh Summit

2006 - PM Sharon suffers severe stroke and falls into coma

2006 - Kadima party wins Israeli general elections for the 17th Knesset

2006 - UN Security Council Resolution 1680 - Delineation of Syrian-Lebanese Border, Disarmament of Hezbollah and other militias

2006 - Hamas kidnaps Israeli Soldier Gilad Shalit

2006 - Hezbollah attacks initiate conflict in July

2007 - Winograd Committee submits Interim Report

2007 - Sderot Qassam rocket attacks on Israel escalate

2007 - Ehud Barak becomes new Labour Party Chairman and Defence Minister

2007 - Hamas takeover in Gaza Strip

2007 - Annapolis Conference

2008 - Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh Killed in Syria

2008 - Tahidyeh (short-term truce) between Israel and Hamas

2008 - Israel-Hezbollah exchange