The University of Alabama is opens to…

The University of Alabama is opens to students on April 18, 1831, with the Reverend Alva Woods as President.

The newly created Alabama Territory had been authorized by Congress in 1818 to set aside a township for the establishment of a "seminary of learning."

When Alabama was admitted to the Union on December 14, 1819, a second township was added to the land grant, bringing it to a total of forty-six thousand acres (one hundred and eighty-six square kilometers).

The General Assembly of Alabama established the seminary on December 18, 1820, named it "The University of the State of Alabama," and created a Board of Trustees to manage the construction and operation of the university.

The board had chosen as the site of the campus a place just outside the city limits of Tuscaloosa, currently the state capital.

The University's charter is presented to the first University president in the nave of Christ Episcopal Church in Tuscaloosa.