Enlightenment · North America · Exploration
1763
Kruzenshtern and the Russian Pacific Claims
1763
Russian fur traders, having crossed from Kamchatka, built permanent settlements on Kodiak and the Aleutians, squeezing sea otter populations and indigenous Alutiit peoples. They would found the Russian-American Company as a state-licensed monopoly in 1799, claiming a coast that Americans had never seen. Russia's Pacific empire stretched from Siberia to the forests above San Francisco Bay, a vast arc of fur and ambition that held until 1867.
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Also in 1763 (3 other events on record)
- Treaty of Paris Ends the Seven Years' War · Europe · Politics
- Pontiac's Rebellion · North America · War
- Royal Proclamation Line of 1763 · North America · Politics
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.