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II. POLITICAL HISTORY

Chronological Summary

1535French rights in "Holy Places " (reasserted 1740, 1878).
1649French assertion of protection of Maronites (confirmed 1727, 1792, 1901).
1774Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji. Russian protection of Christians.
1788-1840Beshir Omar el-Shehab in Lebanon.
1791Jezzar (d. 1804) expels French residents.
1799Napoleon invades Syria; defeated at Acre by Jezzar and British.
1821American mission at Beirut.
1831Egyptian invasion of Syria.
1831-40Egyptian occupation.
1841Egyptians expelled by British forces.
1840-45Druse and Maronite troubles.
1847-54Greek and Latin contention as to "Holy Places."
1856Hatti Humayun. Equality of religions.
1859French religious missions.
1860Damascus massacre; French intervention.
1861Organic Statute of the Lebanon.
1864Law of the Vilayets. Direct administration of Syria.
1869German Crown Prince's visit to Jerusalem.
1870First Hebrew colony in Palestine (Alliance israƩlite universelle).
1876Abdul Hamid Sultan.
1878Treaty of Berlin; equal civil and political rights for all religions.
1878British Jews settle in Palestine.
1879Circassian colonies in Syria.
1886Railway construction.
1887Jerusalem Sanjak directly dependent on Porte.
1888Further Hebrew colonies forbidden.
1895Herzl and the Zionist movement.
1898German Emperor's visit to Palestine.
1904Hejaz Railway begun.
1908Young Turk Revolution.
1908German Jew colonies increase.
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