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Apr 1, 1001
First Settlers To Alaska 30,000-25,000
30,000 BC - 25,000 -
Period: Apr 1, 1001 to
Alaska Timeline
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Europeans finally discovered Alaska
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First Scientific Report On North Pacific Fur Seal
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Captain James Cook of England Explorers Artic Ocean
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Russian Navy assumes Authority in Alaska
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Russians start to explore the Nushagak,Kuskokwim, yukon and Koyuk Rivers
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United states and England obtain trading privileges in Alaska.
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Fort Yukon Established
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Coal mining begins at coal Harbor on the kenai peninsula
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Gold Discovered on the Stikine River near Telegraph Creek
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The sale of Alaska by Russia to the the United States
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U.S. troops withdrawn from Alaska
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First Cold Storage plant built at Ketchikan
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International agrrement between U.S., Great Britain, Canada, Russia, and Japan controls fur seal fisheries; sea otters placed under complete protection; Copper River and Northwestern Railroad begins service to Kennecott Copper Mine.
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First Alaska Territorial Legislature Covenes. First Law passed grants women voting rights.
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Treadwell Mine complex caves in.
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Anchorage Organizes city government
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U.S. Navy begins 5- year survey to map parts of Alaska. Alaska Native Brotherhood convention at Haines resolves to pursue land claims settlement in Southern Alaska.
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Control of education among the Natives of Alaska was transfr=erred from the Bureau of Education to the Bureau of Indian Affairs creating the Alaska Indian Service.
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Fairbanks flood
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Trans-Alaska Pipeline Completed from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez
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Alaska Highway celebrates its 50th anniversary.
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The legislature passes a bill requiring all students to pass exit exams to earn high school diplomas, to become effective in 2002
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Lance Mackey wins his 4th Iditarod race
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Two Alaskans pleaded guilty to illegally trading walrus tusks with Eskimo hunters