Timeline of Jaffa explained

See also: Timeline of Tel Aviv. The following is a timeline of the history of Jaffa.

Prior to 20th century

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

20th century

• 1902 – Cholera epidemic; Trumpeldor Cemetery established.
• 1908 – March: Zionist-Palestinian unrest.^[4]
• 1909 – Tel Aviv founded near Jaffa.
• 1911 – Filastin newspaper begins publication.
• 1913 – Population: 50,000.
• 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.
• 1921 – May: Jaffa riots.
• 1932 – National Congress of Arab Youth held.
• 1936 – April: Arab-Jewish unrest.
• 1945 – Al-Najjada paramilitary youth group established.
• 1947 – In the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, Jaffa is proposed to be within the new Arab state, as opposed to Tel Aviv, which would be part of the Jewish State.
• 1948 – Israeli declaration of Independence; on 14 May, Zionist Irgun forces take Jaffa, which becomes part of the new State of Israel.^[5]
• 1950 – Jaffa attached to Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality formed on 24 April.^[6] Jaffa Administration (municipal department) established.
• 1960 – Company for the Development of Ancient Jaffa established.

See also

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

References

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

• . Published circa 1820s
  • • Book: Itinéraire descriptif, historique et archéologique de l'Orient. Èmile Isambert. 1881. fr. Guides Joanne. 3: Syrie, Palestine. Jaffa. 2027/nyp.33433002689614?urlappend=%3Bseq=308. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433002689614?urlappend=%3Bseq=308.
• (+ 1876 ed. and 1912 ed.)

Published in 20th century

• • Joppa . 15 . Macalister . Robert Alexander Stewart . Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister. 508 . 1910 . . 1.
• Book: Ward, Lock & Co. . London . Haydn's Dictionary of Dates . Benjamin Vincent . Haydn's Dictionary of Dates . 25th . 1910 . Jaffa . https://archive.org/stream/haydnsdictionary00hayd#page/768/mode/1up . .
• Book: Yafa . 1143+ . E.J. Brill . Encyclopaedia of Islam . Encyclopaedia of Islam . 1927 . 9789004097940 . https://books.google.com/books?id=ro--tXw_hxMC&pg=PA1143 .
• The Traditional Middle Eastern City: The Cases of Jerusalem and Jaffa During the Nineteenth Century . Ruth Kark . Ruth Kark . Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins . 97 . 1981 . 1 . 93–108 . 27931156 .
• Jaffa...as It Was . Yousef Heikal and Imad El-Haj . Journal of Palestine Studies . 13 . 1984 . 4 . 3–21 . 2536987 . 10.1525/jps.1984.13.4.00p0062u .
  • Book: Ruth Kark. Ruth Kark. Jaffa: a city in evolution, 1799–1917. 1990. Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Press. 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.
• Recording Procedures and Legal Culture in the Late Ottoman Shariʿa Court of Jaffa, 1865–1890 . Iris Agmon . Islamic Law and Society . 11 . 2004 . 3 . 333–377 . 10.1163/1568519042544376 . 3399187 .
• Book: Mark LeVine . Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and the Struggle for Palestine, 1880–1948. 2005. University of California Press. 978-0-520-93850-2 . .
• Book: Philip Mattar. Philip Mattar. Encyclopedia of the Palestinians . 2005. Facts on File . 978-0-8160-6986-6 . Jaffa . 256 .
• Book: Adam LeBor. Adam LeBor. City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa. 2006. W. W. Norton. 978-0-393-32984-1.
  • Preserving Urban Heritage: From Old Jaffa to Modern Tel-Aviv . Nurit Alfasi . Roy Fabian . Israel Studies . 14 . 2009 . 3 . 137–156 . 10.2979/ISR.2009.14.3.137 . 30245876 . 145726369 . .
• Egyptians in Jaffa: A Portrait of Egyptian Presence in Jaffa during the Late Bronze Age . Aaron A. Burke. Near Eastern Archaeology . 73 . 2010 . 1. 2–30. 10.1086/NEA20697244. 20697244 . 147699678 . etal.
• Book: David Abulafia. David Abulafia. The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean . 2011 . Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-975263-8 . A Tale of Four and a Half Cities, 1900–1950 . 592+ . (about Alexandria, Jaffa, Salonika, Smyrna)
• Book: Martin Peilstöcker and Aaron A. Burke. History and Archaeology of Jaffa 1 . 2011 . Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. 978-1-931745-81-9. http://melvyl.worldcat.org/oclc/880314790
• Book: Yuval Ben-Bassat and Eyal Ginio. Late Ottoman Palestine: The Period of Young Turk Rule. 2011. I.B.Tauris. 978-0-85771-994-2 . Jerusalem and Jaffa in the Late Ottoman Period . Yasemin Avci . 81+ .

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Timeline of Jaffa. 2021-08-15. www.antiquities.org.il.
2. . February 2001 . Herodotus' Description of the East Mediterranean Coast . Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research . The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The American Schools of Oriental Research . 321 . 58–59 . 10.2307/1357657 . 1357657 . 20 May 2021 . 163534665.
3. Book: Ilan Pappé. Ilan Pappé. A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples . 2006. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-68315-9 . Chronology .
4. Book: Philip Mattar. Philip Mattar. Encyclopedia of the Palestinians . 2005. Facts on File . 978-0-8160-6986-6 . Chronology . 572+ .
5. Web site: Jaffa: Divided it Fell . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/jaffa-divided-it-fell-523525.html . 2022-05-07 . subscription . live . 21 January 2006 . . UK . Adam LeBor . Adam LeBor .
6. Book: Bernard Reich. David H. Goldberg. Historical Dictionary of Israel. 2008. Scarecrow Press. 978-0-8108-6403-0 .