Alaska Alive

By Aaron Mallard
  • 10,000 BCE

    Eurasian Migrants

    15,000-10,000 BC
    As the ice recedes nomads follow game across the Bering Strait.
  • 10,000 BCE

    Ice Age

    35,000-10,000 BC
  • 4000 BCE

    Ice melts and migration increases

    5,000-4,000 BC
  • 2000 BCE

    Inuit

    3,000-2,000 BC
    Inuit
  • 1000

    The Tuniit/ Dorset Culture

    5,000-1,000 BC
    Bows and arrows as well as expertly tailored skin clothing are hallmarks of these migrants.
  • 1500

    Inuit and the Little Ice Age

    1,500 AD

  • Russians Arrive

    1711 AD

  • Vitus Bering sails through the Bering Strait.

    1728

  • Concentrated hunting of sea otter by Russia begins.

    1743 AD
    Commercial seal hunting

  • Captain Cook

    1776 Captain James Cook expedition to search for Northwest Passage.

  • First White Settlement

    1784 AD
    1784 - Grigorii Shelikov establishes first white settlement at Three Saints Bay, Kodiak.

  • Old Sitka

    1799 AD
    Old Sitka established by Russians

  • USA begins to eyeball Alaska

    1859 AD

  • Gold

    1861 AD gold is discovered

  • Purchase from Russia

    1867
    USA gains control of Alaska through a purchase of 7.2 million$

  • Commercial canneries

    1890 AD

  • Oil

    1891 AD

  • More Gold

    1896 AD
    Dawson Creek and the Klondike gold rush

  • Anchorage and Railroad Towns

    1914 AD
    Construction Alaskan Railroad; City of Anchorage born as construction campsite.

  • Indian Reorganization Act

    1936 AD
    1936 - The Indian Reorganization Act of 1935 amended to include Alaska

  • Native Boarding Schools

    1946 AD
    Boarding school for Native high school students opens at Mt. Edgecombe.

  • Statehood

    1959 AD
    Alaska becomes a state

  • Good Friday Earthquake

    1964 AD Massive Quake slams Anchorage area

  • Valdez Oil Spill

    1989 AD

  • Happy Anniversary

    2009 50 years a state.

  • I move to Alaska!

    2020 AD
    Life begins for me!