18th Century Alaska History Timeline1711 - Russian traders learn of a "Great Land" to the east.1725 - Peter the Great of Russia commissioned a Danish sea captain, Vitus Bering, to explore the Northwest coast of Alaska. This feat is credited with the "official" discovery by Russia and the ...
Alaska timeline: a hike through history.(50TH STATEHOOD ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL SECTION)(Chronology)Bohi, Heidi
remained unknown to Europe until Columbus's voyage in 1492. However, the native peoples of North and South America arrived from Asia long before, in a series of migrations that began perhaps as early as forty thousand years ago across the land bridge that connected Siberia and Alaska. ...
February 16, 1945:The Alaska Equal Rights Act is signed into law. The act is the first state or territorial anti-discrimination law enacted in the United States in the 20th century. Elizabeth Peratrovich, a Tlingit woman who was Grand President of the Alaska Native Sisterhood, spearheaded th...
Read moreRead more about Native American History Timeline Native American Cultures The Arctic The Arctic culture area, a cold, flat, treeless region (actually a frozen desert) near the Arctic Circle in present-day Alaska, Canada and Greenland, was home to the Inuit and the Aleut. Both ...
In March of 1959, the U.S. government approved statehood for Hawaii. In June, Hawaiian people voted by a large majority to accept admittance into the United States. Hawaii officially became the 50th state under President Eisenhower, following the state of Alaska. No new states had been admitt...
»WW2 Timeline » Unalaska in WW2 History 21 Jun 1919 Alaska USS S-38 arrived at Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska.ww2dbase[S-38|Unalaska|CPC] 12 Apr 1942 Alaska USS S-35 departed Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska for her first war patrol.ww2dbase[S-35|Unalaska|CPC] ...
August 16, 1896 - Gold is discovered by Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie near Dawson, Canada, setting up the Klondike Gold Rush which would cause a boom in travel and gold fever from Seattle to prospector sites surrounding Skagway, Alaska. More November 3, 1896 - Repu...
Diamond Lil Davenport – Madam of Skagway, Alaska Deadlier Than the Male – Female Spies During the Civil War Lottie Deno: Queen of the Paste Board Flippers Eleanore Dumont – Madame Mustache Plays the West Hannah Dustin’s Revenge Fannie Echols – First Woman Sentenced to Hang at Fort Smith ...
When leaders call COVID-19 the “China virus,” it harkens back to decades of state-sanctioned discrimination against Asian Americans.