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 1519: Spanish explorer, Alonzo Alvarez de Piñeda, explored Gulf of Mexico, including Mobile Bay
1539 - 1541: Hernando de Soto explored Southeast; met Chief Tuskaloosa in Battle of Maubila
1559 - 1561: Don Tristán de Luna attempted to establish Spanish colony; failed
1600: Developments created by Indian tribes
1702: Le Moyne brothers established Fort Louis de la Mobile and settlement on Mobile River
1712: La Moyne brothers moved fort and settlement to present day Mobile
1717: Fort Toulouse established on Coosa River to trade with Indians
1721: Ship Africane sailed into Mobile harbor with over 100 slaves
1724: Slavery institutionalized in Mobile area by the French Code Noir Black Code:
1756 - 1763: Seven Years War French and Indian War:, won by Great Britain; France ceded territories east of Mississippi River
1780: Spanish captured Mobile during American Revolution
1798: Mississippi Territory organized from western Georgia, included Alabama
1799: U. S. took possession of Fort St. Stephens from Spanish; Andrew Ellicott surveyed boundary between U. S. and Spanish West Florida, placed stone north of Mobile to mark 31st latitude
1802: Georgia formally ceded western claims at 31st parallel
1805 - 1806: White settlements of Indian lands began
1813: U. S. captured Mobile from Spanish
1813 - 1814: Creek Indian Wars
1814: Gen. Andrew Jackson defeated Creeks; lands ceded to federal government; British failed in attack on Fort Bowyer on Mobile Point
1815: British forces captured Fort Bowyer; abandoned when heard war was over
1817: Alabama Territory created
1818: First legislature of Alabama Territory met at St. Stephens; Cahaba designated as state capital
1819: State constitution adopted; first general election held; Alabama became 22nd U. S. state
1820 - 1840: Over 150,000 slaves brought into Alabama
1826: Capital relocated to Tuscaloosa
1830 - 1835: Indian Removal Bill treaties signed; Indians ceded lands in Alabama for western lands
1820: Steamboat Harriett reached Montgomery; river trade opened between Montgomery and Mobile
1832: First railroad, Tuscumbia, opened
1833: Meteor shower caused night to be known as "the night stars fell on Alabama"
1835 - 1836: Alabama gold rush in east-central hill country
1836 - 1837: Second Creek War; Battle of Hodby's Bridge was last Indian battle in Alabama
1846: Montgomery selected as state capital
1849: Capitol in Montgomery destroyed by fire
1852: Senator William Rufus King elected U.S. vice president; died before taking office
1861: Civil War began; Alabama became fourth state to secede from Union
1861 - 1865: 194: land battles, 8: naval battles occurred within Alabama boundaries during America's Civil War
1868: Alabama readmitted to Union
1895: State flag adopted
1909: Wright brothers established flying school outside Montgomery; boll weevil entered state, destroyed cotton crops
1926: University of Alabama won Rose Bowl
1931: Conviction and death sentence by all-white jury of black youths, "Scottsboro Boys" caused international outrage
1936: Jesse Owen won Olympic gold medals in Berlin, Germany
1937: State sales tax instituted to fund education
1944: First oil well in Alabama
1948: Dixiecrat Convention met in Birmingham, elected Strom Thurmond as Presidential candidate; Henry Truman's name not on ballot
1954: State Attorney General nominee, Albert Patterson, murdered in Phenix City, "wickedest city in America"
1955: Black seamstress, Rosa Parks, arrested for refusing to give seat on bus to white passenger; Montgomery Bus Boycott began; Parks named "mother of modern day civil rights movement"
1956: Army Ballistic Missile Agency established at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville; segregated seating on Montgomery's public transportation vehicles banned by Supreme Court; Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks among first people to ride integrated bus; Montgomery Bus Boycott ended
1961: Freedom Ride, integrated bus trip from Washington, D. C.arrived at bus terminal in Montgomery, attacked by angry mob
1963: Civil Rights targets bombed in Birmingham; four children killed in bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church; first African-American students register at University of Alabama
1965: 600 demonstrators made first of three attempts to march from Selma to Montgomery protesting voting restrictions on black Americans, attacks by law enforcement officers forced them to turn back, broadcast across U.S. caused surge of support for protestors; Martin Luther King led 3,200 marchers from Selma toward Montgomery; Voting Rights Act became law, ending voting restrictions
1967: Lurleen Wallace elected first woman governor in state
1972: Gov. George Wallace shot in Maryland during presidential campaign, paralyzed from waist down
1981: Academy of Country Music selected music group, Alabama, "Vocal Group of the Year"
1993: Governor Guy Hunt, removed from office, convicted of misuse of public funds
1995: Heather Whitestone became first Miss America with a disability
1998: Dr. David Satcher of Anniston appointed U. S. Surgeon General
2001: Condoleezza Rice, Birmingham native, appointed National Security Advisor to President Bush
2002: Vonetta Flowers became first African American to win gold medal in Winter Olympics; Bobby Frank Cherry convicted of murder for his part in 1963 bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church
2004: Condoleezza Rice appointed U.S. Secretary of State by President George W. Bush
2005: Hurricane Katrina caused major damages along coastal areas
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