East of the Sun: The Epic Conquest and Tragic History of Siberia

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Russians reach the Pacific Invasion of the Amur River Valley begins Semyon Dezhnev rounds the northeastern cape of Asia

1682

Peter the Great crowned (as co-tsar with half-brother, Ivan)

1689

Treaty of Nerchinsk

1697

Conquest of Kamchatka

1716

First crossing of the Sea of Okhotsk

1725

Vitus Bering’s First Expedition

1733

Bering’s Second Expedition

July 1741

Discovery of Alaska

1743

Conquest of Aleutian Islands begins

1783

First Russian colony founded on Kodiak Island, Alaska

1799

Russian-American Company receives its charter

1803

Alexander Baranov sets sail for Alaska

1803

Russia’s first around-the-world voyage

1804

Russia’s first mission to Japan

1812

Founding of Ross Colony, north of San Francisco

1815

Hawaiian Islands claimed for the tsar

1823

Monroe Doctrine proclaimed

1825

Decembrist revolt

1847

Nikolai Muravyov appointed governor-general of Siberia

1849

The navigability of the lower Amur discovered; Sakhalin found to be an island

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