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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Birmingham, Alabama, USA. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Birmingham Mail newspaper launched as the Birmingham Evening Mail. Birmingham Council agree to build offices on lands bought in 1853. 1871 1 June: Birmingham, Alabama established in the United States. School Board established in Birmingham as required by the Elementary Education Act 1870 and with the support of Joseph Chamberlain.
The Saltley Handaxe illustrated by John Evans in 1897. The oldest human artefact found within Birmingham is the Saltley Handaxe: a 500,000-year-old brown quartzite hand axe about 100 millimetres (3.9 in) long, discovered in the gravels of the River Rea at Saltley in 1892.
Timeline of Birmingham, Alabama; 0–9. 4 Little Girls; 1950s synagogue bombings; 2002 Alabama Adventure and VisionLand bankruptcy; 2011 Super Outbreak; A.
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Birmingham (/ ˈ b ɜːr m ɪ ŋ h æ m / BUR-ming-ham) is a city in the north central region of Alabama, United States.Birmingham is the county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous county.
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As Birmingham was the center of industry and population in Alabama, in 1963 civil rights leaders chose to mount a campaign there for desegregation. Schools, restaurants and department stores were segregated; no African Americans were hired to work in the stores where they shopped or in the city government supported in part by their taxes.