Timeline of Jaffa

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.^[1]
• 301 BCE – Jaffa becomes part of the Ptolemaic Kingdom.
• 200 BCE – Jaffa becomes part of the Seleucid Empire.
• 142 BCE Jaffa Comes under Hasmonean control^[3][4]
• 68 CE – Jaffa becomes part of the Roman Empire under Vespasian.^[5]
• 636 CE – Jaffa is taken from the Romans (Byzantins) by Arab forces under Caliph Omar.^[6]
• 1099 AD – Jaffa is temporarily taken from the Muslims by the Christian Crusaders.^[6]
• 1126 AD – Knights of St. John in power in Jaffa.^[5]
• 1187 – Saladin retakes Jaffa.^[5]
• 1191 – Jaffa taken by forces of Crusader King Richard I of England.^[5]
• 1196 – Saladin's brother Al-Adil I retakes Jaffa.^[5]
• 1252 – Jaffa once again taken from the Mamluks by forces of Christian King Louis IX of France.^[6]
• 1268 – The Mamluks reconquer Jaffa and again expel the Crusaders.^[1]
• 1538 – Bab el-Halil (gate) built.
• 1517 – Ottomans in power.^[7]
• 1654 – Roman Catholic St. Peter's Church built under Ottoman rule.
• 1799
  • 3–7 March: Jaffa besieged by French forces under Napoleon.^[5]
  • June: French ousted by British forces.^[6]
• 1807 – Muhammad Abu-Nabbut becomes governor.^[7]
• 1831 – Ibrahim Pasha in power.^[7]
• 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.^[8]
• 1839 – Ashkenazi Jews coming from Europe settle in Jaffa.^[1]
• 1865 – Jaffa lighthouse built.
• 1866 – Population: 5,000.^[7] Foundation of the Jaffa American Colony.^[1]
• 1868 – German Colony established.^[9]
• 1871 – Municipal council established.^[7]
• 1879 – Jaffa city walls demolished to accommodate growth of city.^[1]
• 1884 – Ashkenazic Talmud Torah school established.^[8]
• 1887 – Population: 14,000.^[7]
• 1891 – Ramla-Jaffa railway begins operating; Jaffa Railway Station opens; Hospital Sha'ar Ziyyon founded.^[8]
• 1892 – Jaffa–Jerusalem railway completed.^[10]
• 1897 – Population: 33,465.^[7]

20th century

• 1902 – Cholera epidemic; Trumpeldor Cemetery established.
• 1908 – March: Zionist-Palestinian unrest.^[11]
• 1909 – Tel Aviv founded near Jaffa.^[12]
• 1911 – Filastin newspaper begins publication.
• 1913 – Population: 50,000.^[7]
• 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.^[11]
• 1921 – May: Jaffa riots.^[10][11]
• 1932 – National Congress of Arab Youth held.^[11]
• 1936 – April: Arab-Jewish unrest.^[13]
• 1945 – Al-Najjada paramilitary youth group established.^[11]
• 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.^[14]
• 1950 – Jaffa attached to Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality formed on 24 April.^[12] Jaffa Administration (municipal department) established.^[15]
• 1960 – Company for the Development of Ancient Jaffa established.^[15]

See also

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

References

1. "Timeline of Jaffa". www.antiquities.org.il. Retrieved 2021-08-15.
2. Anson F. Rainey (February 2001). "Herodotus' Description of the East Mediterranean Coast". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (321). The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The American Schools of Oriental Research: 58–59. doi:10.2307/1357657. JSTOR 1357657. S2CID 163534665. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
3. Peilstöcker, Martin; Burke, Aaron A., eds. (2011). The History and Archaeology of Jaffa 1. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press at UCLA. doi:10.2307/j.ctvdjrrkm. ISBN 978-1-931745-81-9. JSTOR j.ctvdjrrkm.
4. Arbel, Yoav (2011-01-01). "The Hasmonean Conquest of Jaffa: Chronology and New Background Evidencet.pdf". Academia.edu.
5. Britannica 1910.
6. Haydn 1910.
7. LeVine 2005.
8. Franco 1907.
9. Baedeker 1898.
10. Ilan Pappé (2006). "Chronology". A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-68315-9.
11. Philip Mattar (2005). "Chronology". Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. Facts on File. p. 572+. ISBN 978-0-8160-6986-6.
12. Bernard Reich; David H. Goldberg (2008). Historical Dictionary of Israel. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6403-0.
13. Palestinian Territories Profile: Timeline, BBC News, 8 December 2014, retrieved 30 January 2015
14. Adam LeBor (21 January 2006). "Jaffa: Divided it Fell". The Independent. UK. Archived from the original on 2022-05-07.
15. Alfasi 2009.

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

• Abraham Rees, "Joppa", The Cyclopaedia, Philadelphia: S.F. Bradford, hdl:2027/njp.32101078163530. 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). Vol. 3: Syrie, Palestine. Hachette. hdl:2027/nyp.33433002689614.
• "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, vol. 7, New York
• Macalister, Robert Alexander Stewart (1910). "Joppa" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). p. 508.
• 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+. ISBN 9789004097940.
• 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. S2CID 145726369.
• 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. S2CID 147699678.
• 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.