Quick explanation
The seeds of galaxies were created in the early Universe, when regions slightly denser than their surroundings began to collapse under their own weight.
First, small clumps of gas and dark matter collapsed, and later the small ones merged, creating increasingly larger structures.
In the meantime, as gas cooled it became sufficiently dense to form stars.
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