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The Spanish were the first Europeans to enter Alabama, claiming the land. The first fully documented visit was Hernando de Soto in 1539
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The French colonized the region & In 1702 they founded a settlement on the Mobile River.
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Mobile was founded as the capital of colonial "French Revolution" in 1702 and remained a part of New France for over 60 years.
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The British gained control of the area in 1763 by the Treaty of Paris but had to cede almost all the Alabama region to the U.S. and Spain after the American Revolution.
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Creek Indians sided with white Americans instead of Native Americans, hence, founding of Mobile.
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Alabama became a state of the United States of America on December 14,1819. After, the Indian Wars and removal of the early 19th Century, It forced most Native Americans out of the state.
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White settlers arrived in large numbers, bringing or importing African American slaves in the Domestic Trade.
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Montgomery, Alabama, was incorporated in 1819, as a merger of two towns situated along the Alabama River. It became the state capital in 1846.
