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Prior to 20th century

• 1047 – Persian traveler Nasir Khusraw visits village.¹²³
• 1100 or 1101 – a Crusader fleet and land army conquer Haifa. The Crusaders rename it Caiphas.⁴⁵
• 1187 – Saladin captures Haifa.⁶
• 1251 – Fortifications built by Louis IX of France (approximate date).⁷
• 1291 – Mamluk Al-Ashraf Khalil captures Haifa.⁸
• 1869 – German Colony established near town.⁹
• 1873 – Najib Effendi al-Yasin becomes mayor.
• 1883 – Rushdi school opens.¹⁰
• 1887 – Haifa becomes part of the Ottoman Beirut Vilayet.¹¹
• 1898 – Pier and Jaffa-Haifa roadway built.¹²
• 1900 - Population: estimate 12,000. ¹³

20th century

• 1905 – Hejaz Railroad branch begins operating;¹⁴ train station built.¹⁵
• 1908 – Al-Karmil newspaper begins publication.¹⁶
• 1909 – Shrine of the Báb built on Mt. Carmel.
• 1912 – Maccabi Haifa sport club formed.
• 1913 – Hebrew Reali School and Maccabi Haifa Football Club established.
• 1918 – 23 September: Haifa occupied by British forces.¹⁷
• 1921 – Haifa Chamber of Commerce and Industry established.¹⁸
• 1922 – Population: 24,600.
• 1924
  • Technion – Israel Institute of Technology opens.
  • Hapoel Haifa Football Club formed.
• 1928 – Stella Maris Light built.
• 1931 – Population: 50,403.
• 1933 – Port of Haifa expanded.¹⁹
• 1934 – Haifa Airport established.
• 1935
  • Mosul–Haifa oil pipeline commissioned. Refinery starts production in 1939. Pipeline deliveries stop in 1948.
  • Armon Cinema opens.²⁰
• 1937 – Orah Cinema in business (approximate date).²¹
• 1938 – British Government Hospital established.
• 1939 – Oil refinery built.²²
• 1941 – Shabtai Levy becomes mayor.
• 1944 – Al-Ittihad newspaper begins publication.
• 1947 – Population: 145,140.
• 1948
  • April: Battle of Haifa (1948).²³
  • Haifa becomes part of the State of Israel.²⁴
• 1950 – New Haifa Symphony Orchestra established.
• 1951
  • Haifa Museum of Art established.
  • Abba Hushi becomes mayor.
  • Al-Jadid literary journal begins publication.²⁵
• 1953 – Gordon College of Education established.
• 1955 – Kiryat Eliezer Stadium opens.
• 1959 – Haifa Underground Funicular Railway begins operating.²⁶
• 1960 – Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art opens on Mt. Carmel.
• 1961
  • Haifa Theatre founded.
  • Population: 183,021.
• 1963 – University of Haifa established.
• 1969
  • Technion's Rappaport Faculty of Medicine established.
  • Moshe Flimann becomes mayor.
  • Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum opens.
• 1971 – WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education established.
• 1972
  • IBM Haifa Research Laboratory established.
  • Israeli National Maritime Museum opens.
• 1973 – Sister city relationship established with San Francisco, USA.²⁷
• 1974
  • Matam hi-tech area developed.
  • Yosef Almogi becomes mayor.
• 1975
  • Haifa Cinematheque established.
  • Yeruham Zeisel becomes mayor.
• 1976 – Romema Arena opens.
• 1978 – Aryeh Gur'el becomes mayor.
• 1983
  • Haifa International Film Festival begins.
  • Israel Railway Museum opens.
  • Population: 225,775.
• 1984 – Hecht Museum established.
• 1989 – September: 1989 Mount Carmel forest fire.
• 1991 – Lev HaMifratz Mall in business.
• 1993 – Amram Mitzna becomes mayor.
• 1999 – Grand Canyon (mall) and Carmel Beach Railway Station open.

21st century

• 2001 – Hutzot HaMifratz Railway Station and Lev HaMifratz Railway Station open.
• 2002
  • Sail Tower built.
  • Haifa Bay Central Bus Station opens.
• 2003
  • Yona Yahav becomes mayor.
  • IEC Tower built.
  • Carmel Beach Central Bus Station opens.
• 2004 – Almadina newspaper begins publication.
• 2006 – 13 July: Haifa bombarded by Lebanese Hezbollah forces.²⁸
• 2008 – Bahá'í World Centre designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• 2010
  • December: 2010 Mount Carmel forest fire.
  • Carmel Tunnels open.
• 2011 – Wikimania 2011 held in Haifa.
• 2012 – Israeli Personal Computer Museum opens.[1]
• 2013 – Population: 272,181.
• 2014 – Sammy Ofer Stadium opens.
• 2016 – November 2016 Israel wildfires²⁹

See also

• History of Haifa
• Timelines of other cities in Israel: Tel Aviv (+ Jaffa)
• Timeline of Jerusalem

This article incorporates information from the Hebrew Wikipedia.

Bibliography

• "Haifa", Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine, London: J. Murray, 1858, OCLC 2300777
• "Haifa, Sycaminum", Palestine and Syria, Leipsig: Karl Baedeker, 1876
• M. Franco (1907), "Haifa", Jewish Encyclopedia, vol. 6, New York{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• "Haifa" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 820.
• Mahmoud Yazbak (1998). Haifa in the Late Ottoman Period, 1864–1914: A Muslim Town in Transition. Brill. ISBN 90-04-11051-8.
• May Seikaly (2000). Haifa: Transformation of an Arab Society, 1918–39. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-0-85771-842-6.
• Philip Mattar (2005). "Haifa". Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. Facts on File. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-8160-6986-6.
• C. Edmund Bosworth, ed. (2007). "Haifa". Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. p. 149+. ISBN 978-9004153882.
• Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, eds. (2008), "Haifa", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, USA: ABC-CLIO
• Gabor Agoston and Bruce Alan Masters, ed. (2009). "Haifa". Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Facts on File. p. 246. ISBN 978-1-4381-1025-7.
• Alex Carmel (2010). Ottoman Haifa: A History of Four Centuries under Turkish Rule. Library of Middle East History (Book 2). London: I. B. Tauris. p. 2 of the Introduction. ISBN 9781848855601.

External links

• Map of Haifa (1958), via the University of Texas
• Items related to Haifa (various dates), via Europeana
• Items related to Haifa (various dates), via the Digital Public Library of America

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