Israel

Medinat Yisra'el




1300 b.c.-1917

YEAR DATE EVENT HEAD OF STATE
1300 b.C. Independet state
1034 b.C. Kingdom king Saul
1004 b.C. king David
966 b.C. king Solomon
933 b.C. Kingdom of Jude king Rehoboham
916 b.C. king Abijam
912 b.C. king Asa
872 b.C. king Jeoshaphat
850 b.C. king Joram
843 b.C. king Ahaziah
843 b.C. king Athaliah
837 b.C. king Joash
803 b.C. king Amaziah
787 b.C. king Azariah
749 b.C. king Jotham
741 b.C. king Achaz
726 b.C. king Ezechiah
697 b.C. king Manasseh
642 b.C. king Amon
640 b.C. king Josiah
608 b.C. king Jehoahaz
608 b.C. king Jeoiakim
597 b.C. king Jeoiackin
597 b.C. king Zedakiah
587 b.C. Assyr Occupation
539 b.C. Persian Occupation
167 b.C. Kingdom - Hasmoneans dinasty king Judas Maccabaeus
161 b.C. king Jonathan
142 b.C. king Simon
135 b.C. king John Hyrcanus I
104 b.C. king Aristobulus I
102 b.C. king Alexander Jannaeus
67 b.C. king Aristobulus II
63 b.C. Roman Protectorate king Hyrcanus II
40 b.C. king Antigonus I
37 b.C. king Herod I
4 b.C. king Herod II Antipas
39 king Herod Agrippa I
44 king Agrippa II
100 Roman Provence
642 Arab Occupation
1099 Kingdom of Jerusalem king Goffred of Bouillon
1100 king Baldovino I
1118 king Baldovino II
1131 Anjou dinasty king Folco I
1143 king Baldovino III
1162 king Amalrico I
1174 king Baldovino IV
1185 king Baldovino V
1186 Lousignan dinasty king Guido
1192 Blois dinasty king Henry
1197 king Amalrico II king of Cyprus
1205 Monferrato dinasty Queen Maria
1210 House of Brienne king John
1225 Hohenstaufen dinasty king Frederick II H.R.E.
1228 king Conrad IV H.R.E.
1254 king Conradin
1268 Lousignan dinasty king Hugh III king of Cyprus
1284 king John I king of Cyprus
1285 king Henry II king of Cyprus
1291 Arab Occupation
1517 Ottoman Occupation

1917-1948

YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1917 9 december UK Occupation Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby
1918 june Sir Arthur Wigram Money
1919 june Sir Jean-Louis Bols
1920 1 july Sir Herbert Louis Samuel
1923 29 september UK trust administration of Palestine
1925 25 august Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, Baron Plumer
1928 25 august Sir Harry Charles Luke
1928 6 december Sir John Robert Chancellor
1931 Mark Aitchison Young
1932 Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope
1937 september William Denis Battershill
1938 february Sir Harold Alfred MacMichael
1944 3 september John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, Viscount Gort
1945 21 november Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham

1948-

YEAR DATE EVENT HEAD OF STATE PRIME MINISTER
1948 14 may Republic David Ben-Gurion
1948 17 may Republic Chaim Weizmann David Ben-Gurion (I)
1952 9 november Yosef Sprinzak
1952 10 december Itzhak Ben Zvi
1953 7 december Moshe Sharett
1955 2 november David Ben-Gurion (II)
1963 24 april Kadish Luz
1963 21 may Zalman Shazar
1963 21 june Levi Eshkol
1969 26 february Yigal Allon
1969 17 march Golda Meir
1973 24 may Ephraim Katzir
1974 3 june Yitzhak Rabin (I)
1977 22 april Shimon Peres (I)
1977 21 june Menachem Begin
1978 29 may Yitzhak Navon
1983 5 may Chaim Herzog
1983 10 october Yitzhak Shamir (I)
1984 14 september Shimon Peres (II)
1986 20 october Yitzhak Shamir (II)
1992 13 july Yitzhak Rabin (II)
1993 24 march Ezer Weizman
1995 4 november Shimon Peres (IV)
1996 18 june Benjamin Netanyahu
1999 6 july Ehud Barak
2000 12 july Avraham Burg
2000 1 august Moshe Katzav
2001 7 march Ariel Sharon
2006 4 january Ehud Olmert
2007 15 july Shimon Peres
2008 22 september Tzipi Livni


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