{"slug": "mobile-alabama", "label": "Mobile, Alabama", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%2C_Alabama", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79875", "qid": "Q79875", "description": "county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States", "entries": 10, "years": 10, "span": [1698, 1839], "span_label": ["1698 CE", "1839 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Fort Louis de la Mobile"], "related": [{"slug": "february", "label": "February", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "louisiana-new-france", "label": "Louisiana (New France)", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "mardi-gras", "label": "Mardi Gras", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "alabama", "label": "Alabama", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-orleans", "label": "New Orleans", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-france", "label": "New France", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gulf-of-mexico", "label": "Gulf of Mexico", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "brest-france", "label": "Brest, France", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "choctaw", "label": "Choctaw", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1698, "year_label": "1698 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "October 24", "text": "24 October – Iberville and Bienville sail from Brest to the Gulf of Mexico to defend the southern borders of New France; they will eventually found three capitals of Louisiana (New France), as the future American cities: Mobile, Biloxi & New Orleans.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737800#Events", "title": "1698 in France", "revid": 1353737800, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1702, "year_label": "1702 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "January 12", "text": "January 12 – In North America, ships from Fort Maurepas arrive at Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff to build Fort Louis de la Mobile (future Mobile, Alabama), to become the capital of French Louisiana.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362986314#January–March", "title": "1702", "revid": 1362986314, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1703, "year_label": "1703 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February", "text": "February – Soldiers at Fort Louis de la Mobile celebrate Mardi Gras in Mobile, starting the tradition for Mobile, Alabama.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369923832#January–March", "title": "1703", "revid": 1369923832, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1704, "year_label": "1704 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February", "text": "February – In America, Mardi Gras is celebrated with the Masque de la Mobile in the capital of Louisiana (New France), Mobile, Alabama.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358992532#January–March", "title": "1704", "revid": 1358992532, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1709, "year_label": "1709 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February", "text": "February – In America, Mardi Gras is celebrated one more time with Masque de la Mobile in the capital of French Louisiana, Mobile, Alabama, before Mobile is moved 27 miles (43 km) down the Mobile River to Mobile Bay in 1711.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361817608#January–March", "title": "1709", "revid": 1361817608, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1711, "year_label": "1711 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February", "text": "February – French settlers at Fort Louis de la Mobile celebrate Mardi Gras in Mobile (Alabama), by parading a large papier-mache ox head on a cart (the first Mardi Gras parade in America).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364260988#January–March", "title": "1711", "revid": 1364260988, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1714, "year_label": "1714 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Louis Juchereau de St. Denis establishes Fort St. Jean Baptiste, at the site of present day Natchitoches, Louisiana (the first permanent European settlement in the Louisiana Territory, after Biloxi (1699) and Mobile, Alabama (1702) were separated).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366497107#Date_unknown", "title": "1714", "revid": 1366497107, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1719, "year_label": "1719 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 14", "text": "May 14 – In Louisiana (New France), Bienville, from Mobile, captures Pensacola, but Pensacola is later recaptured by the Spanish, and again re-taken by Bienville.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365415998#April–June", "title": "1719", "revid": 1365415998, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1771, "year_label": "1771 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 31", "text": "December 31 – Men, women and children of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes begin a 23-day encampment at Mobile, part of the British colony of West Florida, at the invitation of British Southern Indian superintendent John Stuart, as their leaders negotiate a treaty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363214109#October–December", "title": "1771", "revid": 1363214109, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1839, "year_label": "1839 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 7", "text": "October 7 – Much of downtown Mobile, Alabama is destroyed by a wind-fueled fire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369652934#Events", "title": "1839 in the United States", "revid": 1369652934, "section": "Events"}}]}