Alaksa History- Nicole Mendonsa

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  • Semyon Dezhnev lands in Diomede Islands

  • Peter the Great commissions Vitus Bering’s first expedition

  • Bering/Chirikov voyage

  • Bering’s first voyage

  • Mikhail Gvozdev’s first contact

  • Voyage of Juan Perez & Esteban Martinez

  • Signing of the American Declaration of Independence

  • Captain Cook explores Alaska

  • First permanent Russian settlement in Kodiak

  • Discovery of the Pribilof Islands

  • First Russian Orthodox missionaries arrive

  • Baranov named first governor

  • Battle of Sitka

  • Napolean invades Russia

  • Gold discovered at telegraph creek

  • American Civil War begins at Ft. Sumter

  • Russia sells Alaska to the U.S.

  • First mission school at Nushugak

  • Signing of the Anglo Russian Treaty establishing Alaska’s border

  • Cathedral of St. Michael dedicated in Sitka