See AMERICA: A. D. 1629. ALABAMA: A. D. 1663. Embraced in the Carolina grant to Monk, Shaftesbury, and others. See NORTH CAROLINA: A. D. 1663-1670. {23} ALABAMA: A. D. 1702-1711. French occupation and first settlement. The founding of Mobile. See LOUISIANA: A. D. 1698-1712. ALABAMA: A. D. 1732. Mostly embraced in the new province of Georgia. See GEORGIA: A. D. 1732-1739. ALABAMA: A. D. 1763. Cession and delivery to Great Britain. Partly embraced in West Florida. See SEVEN YEARS' WAR; and FLORIDA: A. D. 1763: and NORTHWEST TERRITORY: A. D. 1763. ALABAMA: A. D. 1779-1781. Reconquest of West Florida by the Spaniards. See FLORIDA: A. D. 1779-1781. ALABAMA: A. D. 1783. Mostly covered by the English cession to the United States. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1783 (SEPTEMBER). ALABAMA: A. D. 1783-1787. Partly in dispute with Spain. See FLORIDA: A. D. 1783-1787. ALABAMA: A. D. 1798-1804. All but the West Florida District embraced in Mississippi Territory. See MISSISSIPPI: A. D. 1798-1804. ALABAMA: A. D. 1803. Portion acquired by the Louisiana purchase. See LOUISIANA: A.D. 1798-1803. ALABAMA: A. D. 1813. Possession of Mobile and West Florida taken from the Spaniards. See FLORIDA: A. D. 1810-1813. ALABAMA: A. D. 1813-1814. The Creek War. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1813-1814 (AUGUST-APRIL). ALABAMA: A. D. 1817-1819. Organized as a Territory. Constituted a State, and admitted to the Union. "By an act of Congress dated March 1, 1817, Mississippi Territory was divided. Another act, bearing the date March 3, thereafter, organized the western [? eastern] portion into a Territory, to be known as Alabama, and with the boundaries as they now exist. … By an act approved March 2, 1819, congress authorized the inhabitants of the Territory of Alabama to form a state constitution, 'and that said Territory, when formed into a State, shall be admitted into the Union upon the same footing as the original States.' … The joint resolution of congress admitting Alabama into the Union was approved by President Monroe, December 14, 1819." _W. Brewer, Alabama, chapter 5._ ALABAMA: A. D. 1861 (January). Secession from the Union. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1861 (JANUARY-FEBRUARY). ALABAMA: A. D. 1862. General Mitchell's Expedition. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1862 (APRIL-MAY: ALABAMA). ALABAMA: A. D. 1864 (August). The Battle of Mobile Bay. Capture of Confederate forts and fleet. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1864(AUGUST: ALABAMA). ALABAMA: A. D. 1865 (March-April). The Fall of Mobile. Wilson's Raid. End of the Rebellion. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1865 (APRIL-MAY). ALABAMA: A. D. 1865-1868. Reconstruction.