Timeline of Mobile, Alabama
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Mobile, Alabama, USA.
-
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
Prior to 19th century
- 1702 - Fort Louis de la Mobile founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville of Montreal.
- 1722 - French Louisiana capital relocated from Mobile to New Orleans.[1]
- 1723 - Fort Conde built.
- 1763 - Mobile becomes part of British West Florida per Treaty of Paris (1763).
- 1780 - March: Battle of Fort Charlotte; Spanish in power.
- 1783 - Mobile becomes part of Spanish West Florida per Treaty of Paris (1783).
19th century
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- 1810 - Mobile becomes part of the independent Republic of West Florida.
- 1813
- Spanish West Florida annexed to the United States.
- Mobile Gazette newspaper begins publication.[2]
- 1814 - Town of Mobile incorporated.
- 1819 - City of Mobile incorporated.
- 1821 - Mobile Commercial Register begins publication.
- 1827 - Fire.[3]
- 1829 - Mobile Female Benevolent Society founded.[4]
- 1830 - Spring Hill College and City Hospital[4] established.
- 1835 - Franklin Society Reading Room and Library founded.[5][6]
- 1839 - October 2: Fire.[7]
- 1840 - St. Francis Street Methodist Church founded.[4]
- 1844 - Shaarai Shomayim congregation formed.[8]
- 1850
- Mobile Evening News begins publication.[2]
- Population: 20,515.[1]
- Bienville Square (city park) established.
- 1852 - Public schooling begins in Barton Academy building.[9]
- 1854 - Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce chartered.[4]
- 1855 - Publisher S.H. Goetzel in business (approximate date).[10]
- 1857 - City Hall built.
1860s
<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- 1860 - Population: 29,258.
- 1861 - City becomes part of the Confederate States of America.
- 1864 - Wilmer Hall established.[4]
- 1865 - State colored convention held in city.[11]
- 1868 - Africatown established near Mobile.[12]
- 1869 - Mobile Bar Association[4] and Mobile Law Library founded.[5]
1870s-1890s
- 1871 - Mobile Cotton Exchange established.
- 1883 - Fidelia Club formed.[13]
- 1889 - Mobile County Courthouse built.
- 1894 - Clara Schumann Club (music group) formed.[4]
20th century
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- 1902 - Mobile Public Library established.
- 1907 - Union Depot built.
- 1910 - Population: 51,521.[1]
- 1914 - Rotary Club of Mobile organized.[4]
- 1918 - Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company in business.[14]
- 1925 - Lincoln Theatre built.[15]
- 1927 - Saenger Theatre built.[15]
- 1929
- Mobile Press newspaper begins publication.[2]
- Woman's Clubhouse Association founded.[4]
- 1936 - American Association of University Women of Mobile organized.[4]
- 1937 - Aluminum Ore Company refining plant constructed.[4]
- 1953 - Consular Corps of Mobile organized (approximate date).[4]
- 1962 - Mobile Genealogical Society founded.[16]
- 1964 - Mobile British Women's Club active (approximate date).[4]
- 1966 - Neighborhood Organized Workers established.[4]
- 1974 - Azalea City News begins publication.[14]
- 1985 - U.S. Naval Station Mobile opens.
- 1989 - Mike Dow becomes mayor.[17]
- 1993 - September 22: 1993 Big Bayou Canot train wreck.
- 1995
- City website online (approximate date).[18]
- Bayfest (Mobile) (music festival) begins.
21st century
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- 2002 - Tricentennial of founding of Mobile.[4]
- 2005 - Sam Jones becomes mayor.[19]
- 2012 - Christmas tornado outbreak.
- 2015 - Bayfest is canceled .
See also
- History of Mobile, Alabama
- List of mayors of Mobile, Alabama
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Mobile, Alabama
- Timeline of Alabama[20]
- Other cities in Alabama
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Cite error: Invalid <references> tag; parameter "group" is allowed only.
<references />, or <references group="..." />Bibliography
- Published in the 19th century
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Published in the 20th century
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Map
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Bergeron, Arthur W. Confederate Mobile. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991.
- Higganbotham, Jay. Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702-1711. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1991.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Published in the 21st century
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Fitzgerald, Michael W. Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860-1890. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
- Pride, Richard. The Political Use of Racial Narratives: School Desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, 1954-1997. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mobile, Alabama. |
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.. Materials related to Mobile, Ala.
- Items related to Mobile, Alabama, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
- Map of Mobile, 1815
- Materials related to Mobile, Alabama, various dates (via US Library of Congress, Prints & Photos Division)
- Materials related to Mobile, Alabama, various dates (via New York Public Library, Digital Collections)
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Owen 1921.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Goodrich 1839.
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Clark 1889.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
