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Alonzo de Pineda sails into th Gulf of Mexico
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Hernando de Soto leads an expedition into today's Alabama
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Mobile is founded after the fortress at old Mobile is flooded.
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Alabama becomes a state!
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Mongomery becomes state capital.
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President Abraham Lincoln frees all slaves in the Southern Confederacy with the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Boll weevils enter the state and begin destroying the cotton.
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The Great Depression leaves many Alabamians jobless and homeless.
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Rosa Parks is arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads a 25,000-person civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery.
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Bobby Frank Cherry is convinced of murder fo his part in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing.
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Hurricane Katrina damages coastal Alabama.
