1947 AD–1948 AD
UN partition, mandate’s end, Israel, and Nakba
British Empire · War & conquest · Migration & diaspora · Decolonization & independence
The UN recommended partitioning Palestine into Arab and Jewish states with an internationalized Jerusalem. Britain ended the mandate on 14 May 1948 without implementing an agreed transition; Israel’s creation and war accompanied the flight and expulsion of roughly 750,000 Palestinians, a widely used estimate rather than an exact count
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
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- End
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- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
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Sources
- www.un.org (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2016-10-24
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Source updated
- 2019-01-03
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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