Timeline of Jaffa
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Jaffa, Israel.
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See also: Timeline of Tel Aviv
Prior to 20th century
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- 1469 BCE - Egyptians in power (approximate date).[1]
- 862 BCE - Jonah embarks for Tarshish (approximate date).[2]
- 68 CE - Jaffa sacked by forces of Vespasian.[3]
- 636 CE - Umar in power.[2]
- 1099 - Jaffa taken by Crusaders.[2]
- 1126 - "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
- 1807 - Muhammad Abu-Nabbut becomes governor.[1]
- 1831 - Ibrahim Pasha in power.[1]
- 1837 - Earthquake.[2]
- 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
Main article: Timeline of Tel Aviv
- 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
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 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.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Benjamin Vincent (1910). "Jaffa". Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.). London: Ward, Lock & Co.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Joppa", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- 1 2 3 M. Franco (1907), "Jaffa", Jewish Encyclopedia 7, New York
- ↑ "Jaffa", Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine (3rd ed.), Leipsig: K. Baedeker, 1898
- 1 2 Ilan Pappé (2006). "Chronology". A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-68315-9.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Philip Mattar (2005). "Chronology". Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. Facts on File. ISBN 978-0-8160-6986-6.
- 1 2 Bernard Reich; David H. Goldberg (2008). Historical Dictionary of Israel. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6403-0.
- ↑ Palestinian Territories Profile: Timeline, BBC News, retrieved January 2015
- ↑ Adam LeBor (21 January 2006). "Jaffa: Divided it Fell". The Independent. UK.
- 1 2 Nurit Alfasi and Roy Fabian (2009). "Preserving Urban Heritage: From Old Jaffa to Modern Tel-Aviv". Israel Studies 14. JSTOR 30245876.
This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.
Further reading
- Published in the 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
- Èmile Isambert (1881). "Jaffa". Itinéraire descriptif, historique et archéologique de l'Orient. Guides Joanne (in French). 3: Syrie, Palestine.
- Published in the 20th century
- "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. JSTOR 27931156.
- Yousef Heikal and Imad El-Haj (1984). "Jaffa...as It Was". Journal of Palestine Studies 13. doi:10.1525/jps.1984.13.4.00p0062u. JSTOR 2536987.
- Charles Issawi (1988), "The trade of Jaffa 1825-1914", in Hisham Nashabe, 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 the 21st century
- Iris Agmon (2004). "Recording Procedures and Legal Culture in the Late Ottoman Shariʿa Court of Jaffa, 1865-1890". Islamic Law and Society 11. JSTOR 3399187.
- Philip Mattar (2005). "Jaffa". Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. Facts on File. 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
- 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. 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. 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. Late Ottoman Palestine: The Period of Young Turk Rule. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-0-85771-994-2.
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