1967 Arab-Israeli War: Israel captures West Bank (including East Jerusalem) from Jordan, Golan Heights from Syria, and Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt. U.N. Security Council Resolution 242
1978 Camp David Accords
1979 Israel-Egypt peace treaty
1981 Israel unilaterally applies civilian law to the Golan Heights, effectively annexing it; U.N. Security Council Resolution 297 holds Israeli action to be invalid
1982 Israel finalizes return of Sinai Peninsula to Egypt
1987 First Palestinian intifada begins
1988 PLO under Yasser Arafat agrees to consider a solution focused on Palestinian claims to the West Bank and Gaza, not all of historic Palestine; Jordan gives up its claims to the West Bank to the PLO
1991 Following the Gulf War, the United States helps start Arab-Israeli (including Israeli-Palestinian) peace talks at the Madrid Conference
1993 Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles (Oslo Accord) signed in Washington, DC
1994 Palestinian Authority (PA) created via Gaza-Jericho Agreement signed by Israel and the PLO in Egypt Israel-Jordan peace treaty
1995 Israel-PLO Interim Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza Strip (Oslo II) signed in Egypt to formalize areas of limited PA rule; final-status negotiating period begins. Assassination of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Source: Israel and the Palestinians: Chronology of a Two-State Solution