The Six Day War Timeline
Major events preceding the war and related to it

June 18, 1953 Revolution in Egypt. Young officers including Gemal Abdel Nasser overthrow monarchy and proclaim goal of modernization and undoing the shame of 1948.
Oct. 29, 1956 Suez Campaign. After Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal , Israel , France and Britain join forces to attack Egypt. Egypt is militarily defeated by the Security Council forces Israel , Britain and France to withdraw from their captured positions . Nasser in return agrees to the positioning of UN Peace keeping forces on Egyptian soil on its border with Israel, and to guarantees right of passage for Israeli shipping through the Straits of Tiran.
Nov 18, 1959 Israel abandons earlier Jordan river diversion scheme, begins work on the National Water Carrier Project, to divert the waters of the River Jordan from the Sea of Galilee to the Negev, taking its share of Jordan water in accordance with Johnston plan.
Jan 13-17 1964 First Arab summit at Cairo , prompted by Israel’s national water carrier project and Palestinian agitation against it. Arabs declare their intentions of stopping the Israeli diversion scheme,, and decided on establishment of the PLO. A Unified Arab Command under Egyptian supervision was created.
May, 1964 PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) founded with the aim of liberating “occupied Palestine “ and destroying Israel. The organization was under Egyptian control.June 5, 1964 Israel begins pumping water from the Sea of Galilee for the Israel National Water Carrier. Israel agreed to take only its share of water allotted under the Johnston plan, with the tacit agreement of Jordan.
Sept 13, 1964 Second Arab Summit at Alexandria decides on diversion of the headwaters of the Jordan.
Jan. 2, 1965 Al Fatah a newly created Palestinian guerilla organization , independent of the Egyptian controlled PLO, carries out first sabotage in Israel, against the Israel National Water Carrier. Fatah carried out about 122 raids between Jan 1965 and June 1967. Most of these raids were abortive.
1965 Syrian water diversion project begins. Syrians fire on Israeli demilitarized zones, often in response to Israeli provocations. This gives Israel the excuse to bombard earth moving equipment of the diversion project.
Feb. 23, 1966 A coup in Syria brings to power the Baath (renassance ) nationalist party which supports and encourages “popular war” for the liberation of Palestine.
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“The liberation battle can only be waged by progressive Arab forces through a popular war of liberation, which history has proved is the only course for victory against all aggressive forces.... it will remain the final way for the liberation of the entire Arab homeland “
Nov 9, 1966 Egypt and Syria sign defense treaty.
Nov 10, 1966 Three Israeli soldiers are killed by a land mine on an Israeli patrol road near the the border, south of Hebron. King Hussein sends an apology via US ambassador Walworth Barbour, but Barbour fails to deliver the apology.
Nov 13, 1966 Samu' raid: Israeli troops retaliate for the November 10 killing of 3 Israeli soldiers by a mine planted on a patrol road. The attack unexpectedly runs into a column of Jordan Legion soldiers, kills 15 Jordanian soldiers and 3 civilians, & dynamite 125 houses in as Samu according to UN or about 40 according to Israelis.near Hebron. The attack shakes the Palestinian population in Jordan which demonstrates against the Hashemite kingdom . The PLO gains support and Jordan has been dragged into the growing Syrian -Israeli conflict.
April 7, 1967 As part of the developing armed conflict in the Northern border between Israel and Syria, an air battle involving about 130 aircraft developed. Israelis downs 6 MiG 21 fighters, 2 over the Golan and 4 over Damascus.
May 11, 1967 Israeli PM Eshkol states, "In view of the 14 incidents in the past month alone it is possible that we will have to adopt measures no less drastic than those of April 7." UPI circulated a rumor (May 12) that Israel was trying to topple the Syrian regime.
May 12, 1967 In an interview to the press on the eve of Israel's Indeendence Day , chief of Staff Rabin claims:
“Our reactions against Lebanon and Jordan were against States that are not encouraging acts of terror and sabotage. In Syria we will have to act differently, because there the regime is the one that encourage and direct Terror. Rabin's words are widely interpreted as an Israeli threat to overthrown the Egyptian regime.
May 13, 1967 Soviets inform Anwar Sadat in Moscow that Israel is massing 10-12 brigades in preparation for an attack on Syria, supposedly to take place May 17. The information is false, as were several similar previous Soviet warnings.
May 14, 1967 First reports of Egyptian troop movements into Sinai. Three Egyptian divisions cross into the Sinai in the first 48 hours. Each one comprised of 15,000 men and close to 100 state of the art tanks. 150 armored personnel carriers and masses of Soviet artillery.
May 16, 1967 Special envoy of the Egytian chief of Staff delivers a letter to General Indar Jit Rikhye, head of UNEF (UN Eemergency Force) in which he is asked to withdraw from the 41 observation posts that his soldiers man on the Israeli /Egyptian border.
May 18, 1967 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser orders the United Nations Emergency Force to leave Sinai.
“ The government of the United Arab Republic has the honour to inform your excellency that it has decided to termiante the presence of the United Nations Emergency Forces from the territory of the United Arab Republic”
A day later the UNEF begins its evacuation of the border area and from Sharm Al sheik overlooking the Straits of Tiran.
May 21, 1967 Ben-Gurion summons Israeli Chief of Staff Rabin and accuses him of precipitating the crisis and dragging Israel into a dangerous war. On the following day, Rabin, under tremendous pressure, is incapacitated temporarily by nicotine poisoning, massive fatigue or a nervous breakdown.
May 22 1967 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser closes the straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping. Egypt continues to increase its forces in the Sinai.
May 23, 1967 United Nations General secretary U Thant arrives in Cairo in a final attempt to persusade Nasser to allow the UN to stay in Egypt. He fails and in a private dinner Nasser reveals to him that he is under pressure from the Military headed by Fiedlmarshall Amer who want to go to war. According to General Rikhye who was present in the dinner as well Nasser indicated that he was war afraid of “a coup...assasiantion... it was on his mind”
May 26, 1967 Speech by Gamal Nasser to Arab Trade Unionists - - Nasser claimed that Egypt was only looking for the right movement and the proper excuse to fight for the Palestinian cause.
May 26, 1967 Egypt Defence Minister in a meeting in the Kremlin is being told by Soviet Premiere Alexi Kossigyn that the Soviet Union will no authorize an Egyptian first strike.
President Johnson reluctantly agrees to see Abba Eban. Tells him he is powerless to act to open straits of Tiran and requires more time (about two weeks) to assemble UN support for a regatta to open the straits. President Johnson warns Israel against unilateral action.
May 27, 1967 Nasser cancels a planned Egyptian attack on Israel (Operation fajr - Dawn), planned for following day, after it became obvious that the Israelis knew about the plan.
May 28, 1967 Israeli Levi Eshkol broadcasts a hesitant, stammering speech, further exacerbating pressure on him to make way for other leaders. Later it is claimed that the stammering was due to problems in reading the manuscript.
In a night meeting with the Israeli general staff he is being attacked by the assembled generals for his hestiancy and the government’s inability to decide to go to war to remove the Egyptian threat. Eshkol political advisor at the time called it the “quiet putch of the General Staff”.
May 30, 1967 Jordan signs a defense pact with Egypt, allows Egyptian command of Jordan Legion.
May 31, 1967 President Abdur Rahman Aref of Iraq stated "The existence of Israel is an error which must be rectified. This is our opportunity to wipe out the ignominy which has been with us since 1948. Our goal is clear - to wipe Israel off the map.
Jun 2, 1967 After weeks of growing pressure Prime Minister Levi Eshkol agrees to give up the Defence Ministry portfolio and Moshe Dayan, Israel former chief of Staff is sworn in as the new Defence Minister of a national unity government which includes leaders of the opposition.

The Six Day War - June 1967

Aftermath of the Six Day War
In six Days of War 18,000 Arab soldiers were killed and 776 Israeli soldiers.
Over 100,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from the West Bank

June 28 Israel enacts a series of laws that unifies Jerusalem under Israeli control.
August /September 1967 An Arab league resolution concludes , there will be no peace with Israel, no recognition and no negotiations.
September 1967 The first Israeli settlement is established in the occupied territories
Nov 22, 1967 UN Security Council resolution 242 (November 1967) called for Israeli withdrawal, establishment of peace
November 1967 Fatma Barnaui a young Palestinian woman from the old city of Jerusalem attempts to blow up a bomb in a Jerusalem 's cinema