Alabama state

|temporary settlement on Mobile Bay. |

|1699 An expedition under the. French explorer Pierre |

|Lemoyne, Sieur d'lberville, explored the coast and |

|claimed the area for France. |

|1702 Pierre Lemoyne's brother, Jean Baptiste Lemoyne,|

|Sieur de Bienville, founded Fort Louis de la Mobile. |

|1711 The French moved Fort Louis to the present site |

|of Mobile. |

|1763 At the end of the French and Indian War, France |

|gave the area east of the Mississippi River, |

|including Alabama, to Great Britain. |

|1783 After the Revolutionary War, Great Britain gave |

|the Mobile area to Spain and the rest of Alabama to |

|the United States. |

|1813 United States captured Mobile and added it to |

|the Mississippi Territory. |

|1814 General Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek |

|Indians. |

|1817 Congress created the Alabama Territory. |

|1819 Alabama admitted to Union December 14, as 22nd |

|state. |

|1847 Montgomery became state capital. |

|1861 Alabama seceded from the Union January 11 and |

|formed the Republic of Alabama, which lasted until |

|February 8, when Alabama joined the Confederacy. 1868|