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Bering sights Mt. St. Elias on Alaska mainland and goes ashore
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Concentrated hunting of Sea Otters begins and Russian traders establish trading posts in Southcentral Alaska
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Aleuts try to repel Russian intruders in Unalaska, Umnak, and Unimak.
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Russia responds by destroying the villages of Unalaska and Umnak
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Ivan Pan'kov, Aleut chief of Tigalda Island, first to write Aleut language and with Father John Veniaminov to translate parts of the Bible into Unangan language.
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Established by the Russians at Three Saints Bay-Kodiak Island
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Baranov named first Russian Govenor of Alaska which was claimed as Russian possession by Czar Paul
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Tlingit Idians massacre 20 Russians and 130 Aleut workers at Old Sitka
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Dena'ina Population is decimated by smallpox
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The "sale" of Alaska by Russia to the United States, which rightfully belonged to neither countries for $7.2 million and would go on to be known as Seward's Folley
