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Vitus Bering lands at Kayak island, officially planting the flag for Russia. -
Russian fur traders begin working their way along the "Eastern Islands" (the Aleutians) in search of sea otter pelts.
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Catherine takes her late husband's place as soveriegn of the Russian Empire.
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Grigori Shelikhov founds Alaska's first permanent European settlement on Kodiak Island.
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Settlement founded at the mouth of the Kenai river by Lebedev-Latskotchin fur traders.
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Great Britian and Spain agree to avoid hostilities and divvy up trading opportunities along the northwest coast.
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Catherine dies leaving her son, Paul I, emporer of Russia.
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Mekarii in the company of six Aleutian delagates travel to Moscow to as Czar Paul I for better treatmen of Native peoples.
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Russian America Company is given a charter to operate in Alaska.
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Baranov is the premier Russian power in Alaska.
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Baranov is the governor of the Russian-America and the general manager of the RAC
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The Russian ship the Kodiak establishes Fort Ross in California.
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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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Sitka is the most cultured settlement in Russian Alaska
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James K. Polk wins the U.S. election on a platform of "aggressive expansion."
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Boundary between Canada and Russian America decided by Russian and British diplomats.
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Enoch Furuhjelm establishes English Bay, now known as Nanwalek, as a coal mining town.
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William Seward, Secretary of the Interior, supports the territorial aquisition of Alaska.
