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Vitus Bering
Do you have a flag?
Vitus Bering lands at Kayak island, officially planting the flag for Russia. -
Promyshlenniki
Russian fur traders begin working their way along the "Eastern Islands" (the Aleutians) in search of sea otter pelts. -
Catherine Ascends
Catherine takes her late husband's place as soveriegn of the Russian Empire. -
Kodiak
Grigori Shelikhov founds Alaska's first permanent European settlement on Kodiak Island. -
Pavlovskaia
Settlement founded at the mouth of the Kenai river by Lebedev-Latskotchin fur traders. -
Nootka Convention
Great Britian and Spain agree to avoid hostilities and divvy up trading opportunities along the northwest coast. -
Catherine dies
Catherine dies leaving her son, Paul I, emporer of Russia. -
Heiromonk Mekarii
Mekarii in the company of six Aleutian delagates travel to Moscow to as Czar Paul I for better treatmen of Native peoples. -
RAC
Russian America Company is given a charter to operate in Alaska. -
Alexander Baranov
Baranov is the premier Russian power in Alaska. -
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Alexander Baranov
Baranov is the governor of the Russian-America and the general manager of the RAC -
Tlingits take Sitka
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Fort Ross
The Russian ship the Kodiak establishes Fort Ross in California. -
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Fort Ross
Russians establish and maintain Fort Ross in California despite Spanish hostilities. The Fort/Colony is used to maintain the Alaskan settlements with produce. -
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Paris of the Pacific
Sitka is the most cultured settlement in Russian Alaska -
"54-40 or Fight!
James K. Polk wins the U.S. election on a platform of "aggressive expansion." -
141 Degrees West Longitude
Boundary between Canada and Russian America decided by Russian and British diplomats. -
RAC employees "colonial citizens"
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English Bay
Enoch Furuhjelm establishes English Bay, now known as Nanwalek, as a coal mining town. -
Purchase!!
William Seward, Secretary of the Interior, supports the territorial aquisition of Alaska.
