Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on April 11 across the 2 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
when 66 Jewish families purchased sand dunes north of ancient Jaffa to establish a modern Hebrew-speaking city — the founding members drew lots from seashells on the beach to assign building plots; the Founders' Monument at Rothschild Boulevard commemorates the event.
surpassed Limerick in 1841 census; the rivalry with Dublin (a city about 7 times larger) is real on the Cork side, mostly bemused-indifference on the Dublin side. Cork was historically the world's largest butter exporter — the Cork Butter Exchange (operating 1730s-1924) was the…
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →