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| 1923 |
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| Arab rejection of the proposed Arab Agency, a formal advisory council that would have represented Arab interests to the high commissioner. It was designed to function as a parallel institution to the Jewish Agency, which served the interests of Jewish settlers. | 1 |
| Abolition of the Capitulations. | 2 |
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| 1925–28 |
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| Lord Plumer served as British high commissioner. | 3 |
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| 1925, April 1 |
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| Official opening of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, with Lord Balfour in attendance. The Institute of Technology (Technion) was opened the same year in Haifa. | 4 |
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| 1927 |
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| Introduction of the Palestinian pound (in Transjordan as well) to replace the Ottoman and Egyptian currencies that were still in use. | 5 |
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| 1928, July 6 |
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| Sir John Chancellor became British high commissioner. | 6 |
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| 1929, Aug |
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| Western (Wailing) Wall riots. Disputes over Jewish access to the Western Wall of the second Jewish Temple complex escalated into Arab-Jewish rioting, which claimed the lives of approximately 250 Arabs and Jews. The fighting ended only after the intervention of British troops. In the aftermath of the clashes, Arab-British relations sharply deteriorated because of the excessive violence (including the bombing of villages) the British used in quelling the disturbances and the harsh collective punishments they imposed on parts of the countryside. As a result of British severity, Palestinian notables, many of whom had tried to cooperate with the British during the conflict, lost much of their credibility and influence within the Arab community. | 7 |
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| 1930, March 31 |
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| Report of the Shaw Commission, formed to investigate the causes of the Wailing Wall riots. The committee concluded that the hostility of Arabs to the British mandate grew out of fears that the Zionist program would deprive them of their lands, throw them out of work to open jobs for Jews, and ultimately reduce them to a subordinate class within their own country. | 8 |
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| Oct |
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| Publication by the British government of the Passfield White Paper, which called for the creation of a legislative council (first intimated in the 1922 White Paper) and restrictions on Jewish immigration and land purchases. The White Paper generated heated debate within Britain, Palestine, and the world Jewish community, leading to the suspension of the immigration restrictions (Feb. 1931) by the British Parliament. The long-promised legislative council never materialized. | 9 |
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