1540 Hernando de Soto arrived in Alabama from Florida.
1559 Tristan de Luna established a settlement on Mobile Bay.
1702 The French found Fort Louis de la Mobile the first French settlement.
1711 Fort Louis was moved to the present day Mobile.
1719 The French brought the first African slaves to Alabama.
1763 Treaty of Paris Ends Under terms France ceded all the land east of the Mississippi to England thus Alabama became an English territory.
1811 Mobile Centinel is published.
1813 Americans defeat the Spanish garrison at Mobile.
1814 General Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
1817 Congress passed a law establishing Alabama territory.
1818 The first territorial legislature met.
1819 Alabama was admitted to the Union as the 22d state.
1830 The Choctaw Indians ceded their remaining land and they begin their migration to Oklahoma.
1836 The Cherokees were forced to migrate to Oklahoma.
1861 Alabama voted on secession. The Provisional government of the Confederate States met in Montgomery in February 1861 and it adopted a constitution.
1864 Admiral David Farragut defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Mobile Bay.
1865 the state adopted a new constitution.
1876 Federal troops were withdrawn from Alabama. 1881 Booker T Washington opened the Tuskegee Institute.
1925 The first radio station WBRC was established in Birmingham.
1931 Eight black youths were convicted and sentenced to death at the Scottsboro Trail.
1951 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to white passengers and that precipitated the black boycott of the buses.
1956 the Supreme Court ruled the states segregation laws unconstitutional.
1963 George Wallace became governor and announced that he would defy federal integration laws.
1964Two Blacks students enrolled at the University of Alabama in opposition of Governor Wallace.
1965 Martin Luther King and 25,000 followers march from Montgomery to Selma.