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| 1581 |
| | | Tasso, in Gerusalemme Liberata ('Jerusalem Liberated'), turns the first crusade into a romantic epic | |
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| 1804 |
| | | William Blake includes his poem 'Jerusalem' in the Preface to his book Milton | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Hubert Parry sets profoundly evocative verses by William Blake and gives his composition the title Jerusalem | |
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| 1917 December 9 |
| | | The British commander Edmund Allenby captures Jerusalem from its Turkish defenders | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Irgun terrorists detonate a bomb in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people | |
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| 1951 |
| | | King Abdullah of Jordan is assassinated on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem | |
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| 1961 |
| | | The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in an Israeli court in Jerusalem, with TV cameras permitted to broadcast the event live around the world | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras meet in Jerusalem, in the first such meeting since 1438 | |
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| 1964 |
| | | The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is founded at a congress in East Jerusalem, then part of Jordan | |
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| 1967 |
| | | Israel captures East Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan | |
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