1880 - 1889
1881 Russian pogroms cause devastation in the Pale of Settlement, southern Russia.
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda sits down in Jerusalem. He will change the old biblical Hebrew, the sacred language, into the modern Iwrith.
1882 BILU [Bet Yaacov Lechu VeNelcha (Yeshayahu perek 2 or 3).] - first halutz [pioneering] movement founded in Kharkov, Russia.
Hibbat Tzion societies founded.
Beginning of first Aliyah: migration/"ascension" of Jews from Russian Empire and Romania to Palestine.
1883 Baron de Rothschild begins support of Jewish settlements in Eretz Yisrael.
1884 First Conference of Hovevei Tzion [Lovers of Zion] movement, headed by Pinsker, in Kattowicz.
1885 Nathan Birnbaum stamps the concept «zionism». The Viennese philosopher Nathan Birnbaum founded 1885 for the first German language national Jewish newspaper: «Selbstemancipation». He stamped this concept in her.
1886 David Ben-Gurion was born in Plonsk, Poland as David Gruen
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