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Vitus Bering's first voyage.
Peter the great sends Vitus Bering to explore the north Pacific, ends up discovering Alaska. -
Bering discovers alaska, goes ashore
Bering goes ashore, dies months later, and is buried on his own Bering Island -
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russian era of alaska
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Russia starts hunting Alaskan seals
russians also establish trading posts -
Aleuts revolt against russian invasion
russia responds by destroying the villages of Unalaska and Umnak -
First white settlement in Kodiak
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Czar Paul claims Alaska as a Russian possetion
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russian navy controls alaskan waters
British navy bars all foreign ships from alaskan waters -
The US and Britain obtain trading rights in Alaska
title explains it. -
Alaskan native population decimated by smallpox
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Russia sells alaska to U.S.
William h. Seward proposes to buy Alaska from Russia, bought for 7.2 million