page_title: Timeline of the history of the region of Palestine
section_title: 18th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the history of the region of Palestine / 2nd millennium / 18th century
context_page_description: This timeline represents major events in the region of Palestine, which at different times during human habitation included a diverse number of people, cultures, religions and nations while being a part of several major empires and an important trade link between Europe and North African coast in the west and Asia and India in the East.
context_section_description: 1700 – Judah the Pious with 1,000 followers settle in Jerusalem.
  1742-1777 - Several Jewish Hassidic leaders (including Rabbi Abraham Gershon of Kitob and Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk ) move to the Holy Land with many followers of the Baal Shem Tov. Historians mark their arrival as the beginning of the current Jewish Hassidic community in the region.
  30 October 1759 – Another devastating earthquake shook the Jordan Rift Valley region. The epicenter of the earthquake was again in the Jordan River, in a location between the Sea of Galilee and the Hula Valley. The cities of Safed, Tiberias, Acre, Sidon were heavily damaged.
  1798 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the French Campaign in Egypt and Syria.
  3–7 March 1799 – Napoleonic Wars: Siege of Jaffa – Napoleon captures the city of Jaffa.
  20 March–21 May 1799 – Napoleonic Wars: Siege of Acre – An unsuccessful attempt by Napoleon to capture the city of Acre.
  8 April 1799 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Nazareth
  11 April 1799 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Cana
  16 April 1799 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
caption: Battle of Nazareth (painting by Antoine-Jean Gros from 1801)
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