- Humans arrive in Alaska (40,000 - 15,000 years ago)
- Aleut, Athabaskan, Eskimo, Haida, Inupiat, Tlingit, Tsimshian, Yup'ik cultures (Pre-European arrival)
- Vitus Bering and Russia arrive (1741)
- Bruno de Hezeta expedition (1775)
- James Cook expedition (1778)
- Grigory Shelekhov establishes settlement at Three Saints Bay (1784)
- Nootka Crisis (1789)
- Battle of Sitka (1804)
- United States acquires Alaska from Russia (1867)
- Gold discovered in the Yukon Territory (1896)
- Boundary dispute resolved with Canada (1903)
- Territory of Alaska is established (1912)
- Japan occupies two Aleutian Islands (1942 - 1943)
- Alaska becomes 49th state of the United States (1959)
- Great Alaskan earthquake (1964)
- Oil discovered at Prudhoe Bay (1968)
- Alaskan National Claims Settlement Act (1971)
- Trans-Alaska Pipeline completed (1977)
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