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| 1959 | Election |  |
| First elected to the Knesset |
| 1975 | Rule of Sinai | |
| Aug Sinai Kissinger, Rabin & Peres agree the withdrawal of Israel from Sinai |
| 1977 | Party Leader | |
| Appointed Party Leader of the Labour Party |
| 1981 | Election | |
| 30th June Elections for the tenth Knesset are held in Israel, despite last minute polls suggesting a victory for Shimon Peres ' Alignment, Menachem Begin's Likud win by just one seat, voter turnout is 77.8%. |
| 1984 | Election | |
| 23rd July The Labour Alignment Party wins 44 seats in the Knesset |
| 1984 | Prime Minister | |
| 23rd July The Parliamentary elections end with Peres 's Labour Party winning 44 seats |
| 14th Sep Appointed Prime Minister of Israel for 25 months followed by 25 months for Shamir |
| 14th Sep The Knesset votes for a coalition Government |
| 1985 | Arrest | |
| 20th May Israel frees 1,500 Palestinians for 3 Israeli soldiers |
| 1st July Israel decides to release 300 of its 735 Shiite prisoners |
| 1985 | Bombing of Beirut | |
| 22nd May Beirut A car bomb kills 50 & wounds 172 |
| 1985 | Deportation | |
| 3rd April The US charges Israel with violating the Geneva Convention for deporting Shiites |
| 1985 | Invasion of Lebanon | |
| 10th June Israel begins to withdraw from the Lebanon after a 6 yr occupation |
| 1989 | Likud Party | |
| Jerusalem Makes a power sharing agreement with the leader of the Likud Party |
| 1989 | Minister of Israel | |
| Appointed Government Minister |
| 1990 | Dismissal | |
| 13th Mar Peres' dismissal by Shamir leads to the fall of the government |
| 1993 | Diplomacy | |
| 19th Dec Oslo Shimon Peres and senior PLO officials end two days of closed-door talks in Oslo, Norway, in which they seek to break a deadlock over Palestinian self-rule in the occupied territories |
| 1993 | Independence | |
| 19th Dec Oslo Shimon Peres and senior PLO officials end two days of closed-door talks in Oslo, Norway, in which they seek to break a deadlock over Palestinian self-rule in the occupied territories |
| 1994 | Nobel Prize | |
| For efforts in trying to create peace in the Middle East |
| 1995 | Bombing of Israel | |
| Nov Lebanese guerrillas of the Hezbollah fire rockets into northern Israel, Israeli warplanes retaliated by hitting rebel strongholds |
| 1995 | Bombing of Lebanon | |
| Dec Israeli warplanes retaliate against rocket attacks with strikes at Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon |
| 1995 | Hezbollah | |
| Nov Lebanese guerrillas of the Hezbollah fire rockets into northern Israel, Israeli warplanes retaliated by hitting rebel strongholds |
| 1995 | Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| 22nd Nov Acting Prime Minister Shimon Peres appoints Ehud Barak, a popular general, to the post of Foreign Minister |
| 1995 | Prime Minister | |
| 12th Nov Appointed Prime Minister of Israel |
| 12th Nov Israel's ruling Labor Party unanimously approves Shimon Peres as its new leader, replacing slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin |
| 1995 | Rule of Bethlehem | |
| 21st Dec Bethlehem The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control |
| 1995 | Rule of West Bank | |
| 24th Sep West Bank Israelis and Palestinians agree on transferring the West Bank to Arabs |
| 2005 | Election | |
| 9th Nov Amir Peretz defeats the Party Leader, Shimon Peres |
