Russian-American Company
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Was a Russian state-sponsored chartered company formed largely on the basis of the United American Company. It had the mission of establishing new settlements in Russian America, conducting trade with natives, and carrying out an expanded colonization program.
Establishment
January 1762: Russian colonization of Alaska by 1761.
Chronology
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Was the last major armed conflict between Russians and Alaska Natives, and was initiated in response to the destruction of a Russian trading post two years before.
July 1802: In June 1802, a group of Tlingit warriors attacked the Russian fort at mid-day. Led by Skautlelt and Kotleian, the raiding party massacred many, looted the sea otter pelts, and burned the settlement, including a ship under construction.
October 1804: The battle of Sitka was initiated in response to the destruction of a Russian trading post two years before.
January 1785: In 1784, Grigory Ivanovich Shelikhov, who later set up the Russian-Alaska Company that colonized early Alaska, arrived in Three Saints Bay on Kodiak Island with two ships, the Three Saints and the St. Simon. Having established his authority on Kodiak Island, Shelikhov founded the second permanent Russian settlement in Alaska (after Unalaska) on the island's Three Saints Bay.
January 1797: Russian colonization of Alaska by 1796.
January 1800: Old Sitka was founded in 1799 by Alexandr Baranov, the governor of Russian America, in Novo-Arkhangelsk (today: Sitka). The territory was under the control of the Russian-American Company, a trading company established by the Russian government to exploit the resources of Alaska.
January 1813: The Russians, led by Ivan Kuskov, established their outpost of Fort Ross in 1812 near Bodega Bay in Northern California. The territory was under the control of the Russian-American Company, a trading company chartered by Tsar Paul I.
January 1817: Fort Elizabeth was built by the Russian-American Company before 1817.
December 1817: In the autumn of 1817 the settlers of the Russian-American Company left Hawaii. Fort Elizabeth was taken over by the Scottish officer Alexander Adams on behalf of King Kamehameha I.
February 1825: The Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1825 was signed between Russia and Britain, with the Russian-American Company gaining control of the territory up to 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude in the Pacific Northwest of North America.
January 1826: Russian colonization of Alaska by 1825.
January 1842: Fort Ross was a Russian settlement in California, established by the Russian-American Company. In 1841, the Russians decided to sell the fort to John Sutter due to financial difficulties. The territory then went to the Centralist Republic of Mexico after Mexico gained independence from Spain.
January 1856: Russian colonization of Alaska by 1855.
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.
Disestablishment
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.
