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Grigorii Shelikhov establishes the first permanent non-Native settlement at Three Saints Bay, Kodiak.
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George Vancouver leaves England to explore Alaska's coast; Alejandro Malaspina explores the Pacific Northwest coast for Spain
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The first Russian Orthodox Church is established at Kodiak -
Tlingits drive Russians from Old Sitka; few Russians survive.
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Russians return to Sitka and attack Tlingit Kiksadi fort on Indian River. Russians lose the battle, but Natives are forced to flee. Baranov reestablishes the Russian settlement at the modern site of Sitka.
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Yurii Lisianski sails to Canton with the first Russian cargo of furs to be sent directly to China.
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Russians begin exploration of mainland Alaska that leads to discovery of the Nushagak, Kuskokwim, Yukon, and Koyukuk Rivers
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Russian Orthodox diocese formed. Bishop Innokenty Venianminov given permission to use Native languages in the liturgy.
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Fort Yukon established by the Hudson's Bay Trading Company.
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Russian explorer trappers find oil seeps in Cook Inlet.
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Coal mining begins at coal harbor on kenai
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Gold discovered near telegraph creek
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U.S. purchases Alaska from Russia; Pribilof Islands placed under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Fur seal population which was stable under Russian rule, declines rapidly.
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The Sitka Times, Alaska's first newspaper is published.
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The first commercial herring fishery begins at Killisnoo; near Angoon and the first two canneries are built in Central Alaska. The U.S. Navy bombs and burns the Tlingit village of Angoon.
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Congress passes the Organic Act, allowing the first local government, and $15,000 is appropriated to educate Indian children. -
Dr. C.H. Townsend suggests the introduction of reindeer into Alaska. Sheldon Jackson appointed General Agent for Education in Alaska.
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Skagway is the largest city in Alaska; work starts on White Pass and Yukon railroad; Congress appropriates money for telegraph from Seattle to Sitka; Nome gold rush begins
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surveying begins for alaska railroad, anchorage is a construction campsite
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Congress creates Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines as a land grant college
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Congress extends citizenship to all Indians in the United States, Tlingit William Paul, Sr. is the first Native elected to Alaska Legislature. Start of airmail delivery to Alaska.
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Court case resolves the right of Native children to attend public school.
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A boarding school for Native high school students opens at Mt. Edgecumbe
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