Timeline of Jaffa

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Jaffa, Israel.

Prior to 20th century

• 1469 BCE – Egyptians in power (approximate date).[1]
• 862 BCE – Jonah embarks for Tarshish (traditional story, approximate date).[2]
• 68 CE – Jaffa sacked by forces of Vespasian.[3]
• 636 CE – Umar in power.[2]
• 1099 AD – Jaffa taken by Crusaders.[2]
• 1126 AD – Knights of St. John in power.[3]
• 1187 – Saladin in power.[3]
• 1191 – Jaffa taken by forces of Richard I of England.[3]
• 1196 – Al-Adil I in power.[3]
• 1252 – Jaffa taken by forces of Louis IX.[2]
• 1538 – Bab el-Halil (gate) built.
• 1517 – Ottomans in power.[1]
• 1654 – St. Peter's Church built.
• 1799
  • 3–7 March: Jaffa besieged by French forces.[3]
  • June: French ousted by British forces.[2]
• 1807 – Muhammad Abu-Nabbut becomes governor.[1]
• 1831 – Ibrahim Pasha in power.[1]
• 1837 – The Galilee earthquake produces high intensity shaking along the Dead Sea Transform on January 1 causing 6,000–7,000 casualties.
• 1838 – Sephardic Talmud Torah school founded.[4]
• 1865 – Jaffa Light built.
• 1866 – Population: 5,000.[1]
• 1868 – German Colony established.[5]
• 1871 – Municipal council established.[1]
• 1884 – Ashkenazic Talmud Torah school established.[4]
• 1887 – Population: 14,000.[1]
• 1891
  • Ramla-Jaffa railway begins operating; Jaffa Railway Station opens.
  • Hospital Sha'ar Ziyyon founded.[4]
• 1892 – Jaffa–Jerusalem railway completed.[6]
• 1897 – Population: 33,465.[1]

20th century

1900s–1940s

• 1902
  • Cholera epidemic.
  • Trumpeldor Cemetery established.
• 1908 – March: Zionist-Palestinian unrest.[7]
• 1909 – Tel Aviv founded near Jaffa.[8]
• 1911 – Filastin newspaper begins publication.
• 1913 – Population: 50,000.[1]
• 1916 – Hassan Bek Mosque built.
• 1917
  • April: Tel Aviv and Jaffa deportation.
  • December: Battle of Jaffa (1917).
• 1918 – Muslim-Christian Association established.[7]
• 1921 – May: Jaffa riots.[6][7]
• 1932 – National Congress of Arab Youth held.[7]
• 1936 – April: Arab-Jewish unrest.[9]
• 1945 – al-Najjada paramilitary youth group established.[7]
• 1948 – 25 April-14 May: Zionist Irgun forces take city.[10]

1950s

• 1950
  • 24 April: Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality formed.[8]
  • Jaffa Administration (municipal department) established.[11]
• 1960 – Company for the Development of Ancient Jaffa established.[11]

See also

• History of Jaffa
• Timeline of the history of the region of Palestine

References

1. LeVine 2005.
2. Haydn 1910.
3. Britannica 1910.
4. Franco 1907.
5. Baedeker 1898.
6. Ilan Pappé (2006). "Chronology". A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-68315-9.
7. Philip Mattar (2005). "Chronology". Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. Facts on File. p. 572+. ISBN 978-0-8160-6986-6.
8. Bernard Reich; David H. Goldberg (2008). Historical Dictionary of Israel. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6403-0.
9. Palestinian Territories Profile: Timeline, BBC News, retrieved 30 January 2015
10. Adam LeBor (21 January 2006). "Jaffa: Divided it Fell". The Independent. UK.
11. Alfasi 2009.

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

• Abraham Rees, "Joppa", The Cyclopaedia, Philadelphia: S.F. Bradford. Published circa 1820s
• Josiah Conder (1830), "(Jaffa)", Palestine, The Modern Traveller, London: J.Duncan
• "Jaffa", Cook's Tourists' Handbook for Palestine and Syria, London: T. Cook & Son, 1876
• Èmile Isambert (1881). "Jaffa". Itinéraire descriptif, historique et archéologique de l'Orient. Guides Joanne (in French). 3: Syrie, Palestine.
• "Jaffa", Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine (3rd ed.), Leipsig: K. Baedeker, 1898 (+ 1876 ed. and 1912 ed.)

Published in 20th century

• M. Franco (1907), "Jaffa", Jewish Encyclopedia, 7, New York
• "Joppa", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• Benjamin Vincent (1910). "Jaffa". Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.). London: Ward, Lock & Co.
• "Yafa". Encyclopaedia of Islam. E.J. Brill. 1927. p. 1143+.
• Ruth Kark (1981). "The Traditional Middle Eastern City: The Cases of Jerusalem and Jaffa During the Nineteenth Century". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 97 (1): 93–108. JSTOR 27931156.
• Yousef Heikal and Imad El-Haj (1984). "Jaffa...as It Was". Journal of Palestine Studies. 13 (4): 3–21. doi:10.1525/jps.1984.13.4.00p0062u. JSTOR 2536987.
• Charles Issawi (1988), "The trade of Jaffa 1825–1914", in Hisham Nashabe (ed.), Studia Palaestina
• Ruth Kark (1990). Jaffa: a city in evolution, 1799–1917. Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Press. ISBN 978-965-217-065-1.

Published in 21st century

• "Jaffa — Bride of the Sea" or "Yaffo — Kalat Hayam" 2000, By Israeli artist Natali Lipin (views of the city Old Jaffa). Language — Hebrew/English.
• Iris Agmon (2004). "Recording Procedures and Legal Culture in the Late Ottoman Shariʿa Court of Jaffa, 1865–1890". Islamic Law and Society. 11 (3): 333–377. doi:10.1163/1568519042544376. JSTOR 3399187.
• Mark LeVine (2005). Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and the Struggle for Palestine, 1880–1948. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-93850-2.
• Philip Mattar (2005). "Jaffa". Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. Facts on File. p. 256. ISBN 978-0-8160-6986-6.
• Adam LeBor (2006). City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa. W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-32984-1.
• Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, eds. (2008), "Jaffa", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO, p. 199+, ISBN 9781576079201
• Nurit Alfasi; Roy Fabian (2009). "Preserving Urban Heritage: From Old Jaffa to Modern Tel-Aviv". Israel Studies. 14 (3): 137–156. doi:10.2979/ISR.2009.14.3.137. JSTOR 30245876.
• Aaron A. Burke; et al. (2010). "Egyptians in Jaffa: A Portrait of Egyptian Presence in Jaffa during the Late Bronze Age". Near Eastern Archaeology. 73 (1): 2–30. doi:10.1086/NEA20697244. JSTOR 20697244.
• David Abulafia (2011). "A Tale of Four and a Half Cities, 1900–1950". The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean. Oxford University Press. p. 592+. ISBN 978-0-19-975263-8. (about Alexandria, Jaffa, Salonika, Smyrna)
• Martin Peilstöcker and Aaron A. Burke, ed. (2011). History and Archaeology of Jaffa 1. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. ISBN 978-1-931745-81-9.
• Yasemin Avci (2011). "Jerusalem and Jaffa in the Late Ottoman Period". In Yuval Ben-Bassat and Eyal Ginio (ed.). Late Ottoman Palestine: The Period of Young Turk Rule. I.B.Tauris. p. 81+. ISBN 978-0-85771-994-2.

External links

• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Jaffa, various dates
• Europeana. Items related to Jaffa, various dates.