Timeline of Mobile, Alabama
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Mobile, Alabama, USA.

Prior to 19th century

 1702 - Fort Louis de la Mobile founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville of Montreal.
 1703 - Mardi Gras begins.
 1722 - French Louisiana capital relocated from Mobile to New Orleans.
 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

 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.
 1814 - Town of Mobile incorporated.
 1819 - City of Mobile incorporated.
 1821 - Mobile Commercial Register begins publication.
 1827 - Fire.
 1829 - Mobile Female Benevolent Society founded.
 1830
 Spring Hill College and City Hospital established.
 Population: 3,194.
 1835 - Franklin Society Reading Room and Library founded.
 1839 - October 2: Fire.
 1840
 St. Francis Street Methodist Church founded.
 Population: 12,672.
 1844 - Shaarai Shomayim congregation formed.
 1850
 Mobile Evening News begins publication.
 Population: 20,515.
 Bienville Square (city park) established.
 1852 - Public schooling begins in Barton Academy building.
 1854 - Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce chartered.
 1855 - Publisher S.H. Goetzel in business (approximate date).
 1857 - City Hall built.
 1860 - Population: 29,258.
 1861 - City becomes part of the Confederate States of America.
 1864 - Wilmer Hall established.
 1865 - State colored convention held in city.
 1868 - Africatown established near Mobile.
 1869 - Mobile Bar Association and Mobile Law Library founded.
 1871 - Mobile Cotton Exchange established.
 1872 - Mobile Carnival Association established.
 1883
 Fidelia Club formed.
 Drago Band (musical group) active (approximate date).
 1889 - Mobile County Courthouse built.
 1890 - Mobile Camera Club founded.
 1894 - Clara Schumann Club (music group) formed.

20th century

 1902 - Mobile Public Library established.
 1907 - Union Depot built.
 1910 - Population: 51,521.
 1914 - Rotary Club of Mobile organized.
 1918 - Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company in business.
 1925 - Lincoln Theatre built.
 1927 - Saenger Theatre built.
 1929
 Mobile Press newspaper begins publication.
 Woman's Clubhouse Association founded.
 1930 - WALA radio begins broadcasting.
 1936 - American Association of University Women of Mobile organized.
 1937
 Foreign trade zone established.
 Aluminum Ore Company refining plant constructed.
 1940 - Population: 78,720.
 1950 - Population: 129,009.
 1953
 WALA-TV (television) begins broadcasting.
 Consular Corps of Mobile organized (approximate date).
 1955 - WKRG-TV (television) begins broadcasting.
 1960
 Sister city agreement established with Puerto Barrios, Guatemala.
 Population: 202,779.
 1962 - Mobile Genealogical Society founded.
 1964 - Mobile British Women's Club active (approximate date).
 1965 - Sister city agreement established with Málaga, Spain.
 1966 - Neighborhood Organized Workers established.
 1974
 Azalea City News begins publication.
 Sister city agreement established with Pau, France.
 1975 - Springhill Medical Center (then called Springhill Memorial Hospital) opens.
 1976 - City twins with Worms, Germany.
 1980
 U.S. Supreme Court decides Mobile v. Bolden redistricting-related lawsuit.
 Sister city agreement established with Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
 1982 - Sister city agreement established with Zakynthos, Greece (approximate date).
 1983 - Mobile Municipal Archives founded.
 1985 - U.S. Naval Station Mobile opens.
 1988 - Sister city agreement established with Rostov on Don, Russia.
 1989
 Sister city agreement established with Pyeongtaek, South Korea.
 Mike Dow becomes mayor.
 1990 - Sister city agreement established with Katowice, Poland.
 1992 - Sister city agreement established with Košice, Slovakia.
 1993
 September 22: 1993 Big Bayou Canot train wreck.
 Sister city agreement established with Havana, Cuba, and Ichihara, Japan.
 1995
 City website online (approximate date).
 Bayfest (Mobile) (music festival) begins.
 1998 - Sammy’s v. City of Mobile strip club-related lawsuit decided.

21st century

 2002 - Tricentennial of founding of Mobile.
 2005
 Sam Jones becomes first African-American in city elected mayor.
 City twins with Cockburn, Australia, and establishes sister city agreement with Bolinao, Philippines.
 2010 - Population: 195,111.
 2012 - Christmas tornado outbreak.
 2015 - Bayfest is cancelled.