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1648 Semyon Dezhnev the first European to sail through the Bering Strait

1682 Peter I (The Great) proclaimed tsar at the age of ten and is forced to rule jointly with his brother Ivan under the patronage of their sister, Sophia

1703 Tsar Peter selects site for St. Petersburg

1725 Vitus Bering’s first expedition Catherine I succeeds Peter and becomes the first woman to rule imperial Russia

1727 Peter II succeeds Catherine

1730 Anna succeeds Peter II

1733 Bering’s second expedition

1741 Elizabeth overthrows the infant Ivan VI and the regent Anna Leopoldovna

1743 Emelian Basov voyage

1745 Yakov Chupov voyage to Aleutians

1762 Peter III formally abdicates and is then killed

1762 Catherine II (The Great) becomes empress of Russia

1778 Captain James Cook arrives in British Columbia

1781 Francis Dana becomes first U.S. envoy to St. Petersburg Northeastern Company formed

1787 U.S. explorer John Ledyard in Russia

1788 Russia attacks Turkey John Meares arrives in British Columbia

1789 George Washington becomes first U.S. president

1790 Washington selects District of Columbia as U.S. capital John Paul Jones is made commodore of U.S. fleet Alexander Baranov travels to Alaska to set up a Russian-American Company trading post Meares arrives in Nootka

1791 Captain George Vancouver arrives in British Columbia Robert Gray travels to the Columbia River

1792 Demetrius Gallitzen arrives in Maryland

1793 Alexander Mackenzie crosses the Rockies

1794 Spain and the United Kingdom sign the Nootka Convention, avoiding war

1796 Paul I succeeds Catherine and becomes Russian tsar Washington negotiates U.S. treaty with the Barbary pirates

1797 John Adams becomes U.S. president

1801 Alexander I succeeds Paul I as Russian tsar Thomas Jefferson becomes U.S. president

1803 Louisiana Purchase Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy, the “American” Tolstoy, sails in the Pacific

1804 Napoleon is crowned emperor

1805 Lewis and Clark’s expedition Russian diplomat Rezanov arrives in Sitka and California

1807 Peninsular War begins

1809 James Madison becomes U.S. president Russia officially gives diplomatic recognition to the United States John Quincy Adam assumes post in St. Petersburg

1810 John Jacob Astor establishes the Astoria in Oregon

1812 Napoleon invades Moscow United States invades Canada (War of 1812) Fort Ross is founded in California

1814 Napoleon is exiled to Elba The British burn Washington Treaty of Ghent is signed Holy Alliance

1815 Battle of Waterloo Napoleon is exiled to St. Helena Kozlov affair

1817 James Monroe becomes U.S. president Russian flag flies in Hawaii

1823 Monroe Doctrine

1824 Convention of 1824

1825 Nicholas I becomes Russian tsar John Quincy Adams becomes U.S. president

1843 Hawaiian flag comes into being

1853 Franklin Pierce becomes U.S. president Crimean War

1855 Alexander II becomes Russian tsar

1861 Abraham Lincoln becomes U.S. president Emancipation Proclamation (Russia)

U.S. Civil War begins at Fort Sumter

1863 Lincoln’s proclamation of slavery’s abolition Russian fleets arrive in San Francisco and New York

1865 The 13th Amendment abolishing slavery U.S. Civil War ends Russian–American Telegraph Company is formed

1867 Alaska purchased by the United States (“Seward’s Folly”)

1872 Grand Duke Alexis visits the United States

1881 Alexander III succeeds to the Russian throne Massive pogroms in Russia

1894 Nicholas II becomes Russian tsar

1897 U.S. flag is raised in Hawaii

1901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes U.S. president

1903 Kishenev massacre

1904 Japan attacks Port Arthur (Russo-Japanese War)

1905 Roosevelt organizes the Portsmouth Peace Conference

1913 Woodrow Wilson becomes U.S. president

1914 Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, triggering First World War

1915 Lusitania torpedoed by German submarine

1917 St. Petersburg riots take over the city Lenin forms Communist government United States declares war on Germany U.S. Expeditionary Forces to Russia

1918 Nicholas II and family are assassinated in July