People from Asia crossed the Bering Strait around 14,000 BC.
Peter the Great of Russia hires Vitus Bering to explore the coast of Alaska in 1725.
Cook reaches King Island, Norton Sound, Unalaska in 1725.
Catherine the Great gives Grigorii Shelikov a monopoly in furs for Alaska in 1792.
Alexander Baranov starts the Russian American Company in Old Sitka in 1799.
US Secretary of State William Seward purchases Alaska for $7.2 million.
Gold is discovered in Sitka, Alaska in 1872.
Gold is discovered in Juneau, Alaska in 1876.
Gold is discovered in Anchorage, Alaska in 1888.
Gold is discovered in the Klondike region 1897-1900.
President Theodore Roosevelt establishes Tongass National Forest in 1902.
Alaska becomes a territory in 1912.
The Alaskan Railroad is authorized in 1914 and the southern half was completed in 1918.
President Warren G. Harding drives a golden spike Nenana celebrating the completion of the Alaskan Railroad in 1923.
Nell Scott of Seldovia is the first woman in the Alaskan Territorial Legislature in 1936.
Japan invades the Aleutian Islands in 1942. The US builds a highway and sends ships to defend Alaska.
Alaska becomes a state in 1959.
