| 1836 | Rabbi Kalischer approaches Rothschilds to invest in Palestine. Rothshilds not interested.(They will be) |
| 1859 | Construction of Suez Canal begins. |
| 1859 | World's first oil well drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania. |
| 1869 | Suez Canal completed |
| 1870 | John D. Rockefeller forms Standard Oil |
| 1872 | Montefiore visits Palestine (Rothschilds now interested) |
| 1873 | Baku oil region opened for development |
| 1873 | Nobels enter Russian oil business |
| 1875 | England acquires Suez Canal with Rothschild loan |
| 1877 | Port of Batum incorporated into Russia |
| 1881 | Alphonse de Rothschild meets with Horace De Gunzberg, Russian banker |
| 1881 | Egyptian resentment begins to grow against British-French dominion. (Threatening Suez Canal security) |
| 1881 | Tsar Alexander assassinated. Tsar's son installed. Russian pogroms begin against Jews. |
| 1882 | Beginning of the 1st wave (Aliyah) of Jewish immigration into Palestine (The hope of a standing army within reach of Suez begins here) |
| 1882 | Egypt rebels against British-French dominion. Open revolt called "Arabi Uprising" (Anglo-Egyptian War) |
| 1882 | Alexandria bombarded by British Fleet. |
| 1882 | Standard Oil Trust formed (far from the conflict in the middle east) |
| 1882 | Jackie Fischer named commander of British Mediterreanian Fleet. (Later known as the "oil maniac". Advisor to Churchill) |
| 1882 | Baron Edmond de Rothschild visits Zichron Yaakov (An oil expert with a vision beyond the vineyards) |
| 1883 | Rothschild-financed Baku-Batum railroad completed (Giving Russian oil access to the sea) |
| 1883 | Alphonse de Rothschild's daughter marries Maurice Ephrussi, Jewish Russian Banker |
| 1883 | Baron Edmond de Rothschild begins patronizing early settlements, including Rishon L'Tzion where David Grynspan/Ben-Gurion was a winepresser) |
| 1884 | Anglo-Sudan War |
| 1885 | Rothschilds enter Russian Oil business |
| 1886 | Rothschilds form their own oil company-BNITO |
| 1887 | Edmond de Rothschild visits Palestine settlements |
| 1888 | Rothschilds establish oil importing/distribution company |
| 1891 | Rosa Warburg marries Alexander De Gunzberg, Russian banker, son of Horace De Gunzberg (Rothschilds' man in Russia) |
| 1891 | Samuels/Rothschild oil contract begins |
| 1892 | Samuel's Shell Co.'s Murex oil tanker sails through the Suez Canal |
| 1893 | Samuel's Shell Co.'s adds 10 more tankers to fleet |
| 1893 | Alphonse de Rothschild meets with Standard Oil in NYC to discuss cartel |
| 1893 | Edmond de Rothschild visits Palestine settlements |
| 1896 | Dreyfus Affair: Hertzl commences Zionist activities |
| 1898 | Spanish-American War: Beginning of U.S. internationalism |
| 1899 | Edmond de Rothschild visits Palestine settlements |
| 1900 | End of Rothschild/Samuels contract |
| 1903 | End of 1st aliyah |
| 1903 | Kishinev pogrom |
| 1904 | Beginning of 2nd Aliyah into Palestine |
| 1908 | Oil discovered in Persia |
| 1914 | End of 2nd Aliyah |
| 1914 | Edmond de Rothschild visits Palestine settlements |
| 1914 | World War I begins.Oil goes to war as the French commandeer Paris taxi cabs to rush additional troops to the war front. |
| 1917 | Balfour Declaration addressed to Lord Walter Rothschild |
| 1919 | Versailles Treaty: Ottoman Empire carved up. Oil states created (Iraq,Iran,Kuwait) |
| 1919 | Third Aliyah begins |
| 1923 | Third Aliyah ends |
| 1924 | Edmond de Rothschild visits Palestine settlements |
| 1924 | Fourth Aliyah begins |
| 1925 | Edmond de Rothschild visits Palestine settlements |
| 1931 | Fourth Aliyah ends |
| 1932 | Fifth Aliyah begins |
| 1940 | Fifth Aliyah ends |
| 1941 | Rothschild/Hitler begins mass killings of Eastern European Jews |
| 1948 | State of Israel born |
| 1956 | Israeli military proves itself during Suez Crisis alongside Britain and France |
| 1967 | Six-Day War proves Israel military battle-ready to protect Suez Canal and surrounding "interests".Two years ahead of the 100 year goal set at the 1869 completion of the Suez Canal. |