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| 1600 | | Choctaw, Chickasaw and Cherokee tribes were created. |
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| 1813-14 | | Creek Indian War |
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| 1836-37 | | Second Creek War (Seminole War) |
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| 1837 | | Battle of Hobdy's Bridge (last Indian battle fought in Alabama) |
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| 1846 | | Montgomery named as capital. |
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| Jan. 1861 | | Alabama seceded from the Union |
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| Feb-May 1861 | | Montgomery served as capital of the Confederate States and Jefferson Davis sworn in as President of the Confederated States of America. |
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| Feb. 1865 | | Alabama rejoined the Union. |
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| 1902 | | Dr. Luther Leonidas Hill, in Montgomery, performed the first open heart surgery in the Western Hemisphere. |
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| 1909 | | Orville and Wilbur Wright established Flying School on land outside of Montgomery, six years after their first flights. Present site of Maxwell Air Force Base. |
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| 1909 | | Boll Weevil, insect which destroys cotton, enters from Mississippi |
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| 1936 | | Jesse Owens, Oakville, sets four world records and earns four gold medals at Berlin Olympics in Track & Field. |
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| 1941 | | Training of African-American military pilots (Tuskegee Airmen) begins. |
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| 1955 | | Rosa Parks is arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus to a white man. Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. |
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| 1995 | | Heather Whitestone, Alabama, serves as the first Miss America with a disability. |