Department of Alaska

This article is about the specific polity Department of Alaska and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

If you are looking for the page with the statistics about this polity you can find it here:All Statistics

The Department of Alaska was the designation for the government of Alaska from its purchase by the United States of America in 1867 until its organization as the District of Alaska in 1884.

Establishment

October 1867: The purchase of Alaska for $7.2 million in 1867 ended Imperial Russia's colonial presence in the Americas. The negotiation was led by US Secretary of State William Seward and Russian Minister to the US Edouard de Stoeckl. The territory was then transferred to the Department of Alaska.