Through the 1763 Treaty of Paris, which ended the French and Indian Wars, France ceded Alabama to this country
Great Britain
100
Fort in Wetumpka built by General Andrew Jackson following defeat of Creek Nation
Fort Toulouse-Jackson National Historic Park
100
Century Spanish explored present-day Alabama
1500s
100
Nickname of Braxton Bragg Comer who built a high school in every county and increased size of Alabama's universities
Alabama's "Education Governor"
100
First African-American woman astronaut who rode into space aboard the shuttle Endeavor
Mae Jemison
200
In March 1780 during the Revolutionary War, this governor of Florida and Louisiana captured the British post at Mobile
Bernardo de Galvez
200
Fort in Gulf Shores that was one of last Confederate forts to fall to Union forces
Fort Morgan State Historic Site
200
Date French settled Fort Louis de la Mobile
1702
200
Educator and social reformer who helped establish many girls' schools and successfully fought for women to be admitted to the University of Alabama
Julia Tutwiler
200
Alabama brought this festival to the western world
Mardi Gras
300
In 1783, France ceded northern Alabama to the United States through this treaty that ended the Revolutionary War
Treaty of Paris
300
Site in Spanish Fort of last major Civil War battle
Historic Blakely State Park
300
The year Alabama seceded from the Union
1861
300
As the ghostly story goes...Martha, dressed all in red, attended Huntington College in this city during the early 1900s, died an early death, and haunts the school to this day!
Montgomery
300
Cherokee leader who created the written alphabet of the Cherokee Language
Sequoyah
400
During battles at Talladega and Horseshoe Bend in Alabama, he defeated the Creek Nation in 1813
General Andrew Jackson
400
National Natural Landmark that was a ceremonial ground for Native Americans and a hideout for outlaws has caves, waterfalls, forests, and phosphorescent creatures called "dismalite" that glow in the dark
Dismals Canyon
400
The Confederacy surrendered to the Union ending the Civil War in this year
1865
400
Booker T. Washington, educator, author, and lecturer, organzied this school
Tuskegee Institute
400
Alabamaians built the first rocket to put astronauts on this heavenly body
the moon
500
War fought between the American states from 1861 to 1865 that was also called the War Between the States
the Civil War
500
Memorial in Montgomery that honors 40 people who lost their lives in the fight for racial equality
Civil Rights Memorial
500
The year the fight for civil rights in Alabama began with a batle over seats in a Montgomery bus
1955
500
Paul "Bear" Bryant, one of America's greatest college football coaches, coached the Crimson Tide at this university
University of Alabama
500
School that houses the oldest solar research facility in the Southeast