Timeline of Jaffa

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

Prior to 20th century[]

14th century BCE – Egyptians in power.^[1]
12th to 9th century BCE – Jaffa used as an important port by the Canaanites.
8th century BCE – The region, including Jaffa, falls under the Assyrian Empire.
330 BCE – Coins minted in Jaffa, then under Alexander the Great's Hellenistic Empire.^[1]
301 BCE – Jaffa becomes part of the Ptolemaic Kingdom.
200 BCE – Jaffa becomes part of the Seleucid Empire.
68 CE – Jaffa becomes part of the Roman Empire under Vespasian.^[2]
636 CE – Jaffa is taken from the Romans (Byzantins) by Arab forces under Caliph Omar.^[3]
1099 AD – Jaffa is temporarily taken from the Muslims by the Christian Crusaders.^[3]
1126 AD – Knights of St. John in power in Jaffa.^[2]
1187 – Saladin retakes Jaffa.^[2]
1191 – Jaffa taken by forces of Crusader King Richard I of England.^[2]
1196 – Saladin's brother Al-Adil I retakes Jaffa.^[2]
1252 – Jaffa once again taken from the Arabs by forces of Christian King Louis IX of France.^[3]
1268 – The Arabs reconquer Jaffa and again expel the Crusaders.^[1]
1538 – Bab el-Halil (gate) built.
1517 – Ottomans in power.^[4]
1654 – Roman Catholic St. Peter's Church built under Ottoman rule.
1799
- 3–7 March: Jaffa besieged by French forces under Napoleon.^[2]
- June: French ousted by British forces.^[3]
1807 – Muhammad Abu-Nabbut becomes governor.^[4]
1831 – Ibrahim Pasha in power.^[4]
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 in Jaffa.^[5]
1839 – Ashkenazi Jews coming from Europe settle in Jaffa.^[1]
1865 – Jaffa lighthouse built.
1866 – Population: 5,000.^[4] Foundation of the Jaffa American Colony.^[1]
1868 – German Colony established.^[6]
1871 – Municipal council established.^[4]
1879 – Jaffa city walls demolished to accommodate growth of city.^[1]
1884 – Ashkenazic Talmud Torah school established.^[5]
1887 – Population: 14,000.^[4]
1891 – Ramla-Jaffa railway begins operating; Jaffa Railway Station opens; Hospital Sha'ar Ziyyon founded.^[5]
1892 – Jaffa–Jerusalem railway completed.^[7]
1897 – Population: 33,465.^[4]

20th century[]

1902 – Cholera epidemic; Trumpeldor Cemetery established.
1908 – March: Zionist-Palestinian unrest.^[8]
1909 – Tel Aviv founded near Jaffa.^[9]
1911 – Filastin newspaper begins publication.
1913 – Population: 50,000.^[4]
1916 – Hassan Bek Mosque built.
1917 – April: Jaffa deportation: amidst World War I, all inhabitants of Jaffa (including Tel Aviv), Jews and Muslims alike, are expelled from the city on Ottoman orders.
1917 – December: Battle of Jaffa (1917).
1918 – Muslim-Christian Association established.^[8]
1921 – May: Jaffa riots.^[7]^[8]
1932 – National Congress of Arab Youth held.^[8]
1936 – April: Arab-Jewish unrest.^[10]
1945 – Al-Najjada paramilitary youth group established.^[8]
1948 – Israeli declaration of Independence; on 14 May, Zionist Irgun forces take Jaffa, which becomes part of the new State of Israel.^[11]

1950 – Jaffa attached to Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality formed on 24 April.^[9] Jaffa Administration (municipal department) established.^[12]
1960 – Company for the Development of Ancient Jaffa established.^[12]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Timeline of Jaffa". www.antiquities.org.il. Retrieved 2021-08-15.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Britannica 1910.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Haydn 1910.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h LeVine 2005.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Franco 1907.
^ Baedeker 1898.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Ilan Pappé (2006). "Chronology". A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-68315-9.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Philip Mattar (2005). "Chronology". Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. Facts on File. p. 572+. ISBN 978-0-8160-6986-6.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b 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 30 January 2015
^ Adam LeBor (21 January 2006). "Jaffa: Divided it Fell". The Independent. UK.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b 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.[1]
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.

[:0-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Timeline of Jaffa". www.antiquities.org.il. Retrieved 2021-08-15.

[FOOTNOTEBritannica1910-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Britannica 1910.

[FOOTNOTEHaydn1910-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Haydn 1910.

[FOOTNOTELeVine2005-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h LeVine 2005.

[FOOTNOTEFranco1907-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Franco 1907.

[FOOTNOTEBaedeker1898-6] Baedeker 1898.

[Pappe2006-7] Jump up to: ^a ^b Ilan Pappé (2006). "Chronology". A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-68315-9.

[mattar2005chronology-8] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Philip Mattar (2005). "Chronology". Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. Facts on File. p. 572+. ISBN 978-0-8160-6986-6.

[Reich2008-9] Jump up to: ^a ^b Bernard Reich; David H. Goldberg (2008). Historical Dictionary of Israel. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6403-0.

[bbc-timeline-10] Palestinian Territories Profile: Timeline, BBC News, retrieved 30 January 2015

[11] Adam LeBor (21 January 2006). "Jaffa: Divided it Fell". The Independent. UK.

[FOOTNOTEAlfasi2009-12] Jump up to: ^a ^b Alfasi 2009.

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