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The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire to the United States for a sum of $7.2 million in 1867 (equivalent to $ million in). On May 15 of that year, the United States Senate ratified a bilateral treaty that had been signed on March 30, and American sovereignty became legally effective across the territory on October 18.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 87 relations: Acre, Adams–Onís Treaty, Alaska, Alaska Day, Alaska Natives, Alaska Peninsula, Aleut language, Alexander Gorchakov, Alexander I of Russia, Alexander II of Russia, American Civil War, Amur, Andrew Johnson, Bering Sea, Bering Sea Arbitration, C-SPAN, California, California gold rush, Charles Sumner, Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871), Crimean War, David R. Barker, Department of Alaska, District of Alaska, Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, Esquimalt, Finnish language, Flag of Russia, Flag of the United States, French conquest of Algeria, Frigate captain, Gadsden Purchase, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, Gregorian calendar, History of colonialism, Horace Greeley, Hubert Howe Bancroft, Inuit, James Buchanan, Jefferson C. Davis, John Appleton, John Quincy Adams, Julian calendar, Julius Krohn, Kamchatka Peninsula, Klondike Gold Rush, Louisiana Purchase, Lovell Rousseau, Manifest destiny, Mile, ... Expand index (37 more) »

  2. 1867 in Alaska
  3. 1867 in the Russian Empire
  4. 1867 in the United States
  5. 1867 treaties
  6. Alexander II of Russia
  7. Bilateral treaties of Russia
  8. Bilateral treaties of the United States
  9. Colonial United States (Russian)
  10. March 1867 events in the United States
  11. Presidency of Andrew Johnson
  12. Purchased territories
  13. Russian America
  14. Russian Empire–United States relations
  15. Territorial evolution of Russia

Acre

The acre is a unit of land area used in the British imperial and the United States customary systems.

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Adams–Onís Treaty

The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, also known as the Transcontinental Treaty, the Spanish Cession, the Florida Purchase Treaty, or the Florida Treaty,Weeks, p. 168. Alaska Purchase and Adams–Onís Treaty are history of United States expansionism and purchased territories.

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Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Alaska Day

Alaska Day is a legal holiday in the U.S. state of Alaska, observed on October 18.

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Alaska Natives

Alaska Natives (also known as Alaskan Indians, Alaskan Natives, Native Alaskans, Indigenous Alaskans, Aboriginal Alaskans or First Alaskans) are the Indigenous peoples of Alaska and include Alaskan Creoles, Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures.

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Alaska Peninsula

The Alaska Peninsula (also called Aleut Peninsula or Aleutian Peninsula, Alasxix̂; Sugpiaq: Aluuwiq, Al'uwiq) is a peninsula extending about to the southwest from the mainland of Alaska and ending in the Aleutian Islands.

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Aleut language

Aleut or Unangam Tunuu is the language spoken by the Aleut living in the Aleutian Islands, Pribilof Islands, Commander Islands, and the Alaska Peninsula (in Aleut Alaxsxa, the origin of the state name Alaska).

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Alexander Gorchakov

Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Горчако́в; 15 July 179811 March 1883) was a Russian diplomat and statesman from the Gorchakov princely family.

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Alexander I of Russia

Alexander I (–), nicknamed "the Blessed", was Emperor of Russia from 1801, the first king of Congress Poland from 1815, and the grand duke of Finland from 1809 to his death in 1825.

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Alexander II of Russia

Alexander II (p; 29 April 181813 March 1881) was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 2 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Amur

The Amur River (река Амур) or Heilong River is a perennial river in Northeast Asia, forming the natural border between the Russian Far East and Northeast China (historically the Outer and Inner Manchuria). The Amur proper is long, and has a drainage basin of., Great Soviet Encyclopedia If including its main stem tributary, the Argun, the Amur is long, making it the world's tenth longest river.

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Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808July 31, 1875) was an American politician who served as the 17th president of the United States from 1865 to 1869. Alaska Purchase and Andrew Johnson are presidency of Andrew Johnson.

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Bering Sea

The Bering Sea (p) is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean.

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Bering Sea Arbitration

The Bering Sea Arbitration of 1893 arose out of a fishery dispute between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States in the 1880s. Alaska Purchase and Bering Sea Arbitration are pre-statehood history of Alaska.

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C-SPAN

Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN) is an American cable and satellite television network, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a nonprofit public service.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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California gold rush

The California gold rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. Alaska Purchase and California gold rush are history of United States expansionism.

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Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811March 11, 1874) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1851 until his death in 1874.

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Colony of British Columbia (1866–1871)

The Colony of British Columbia was a British Crown Colony that resulted from the 1866 merger of two British colonies, the Colony of Vancouver Island and the mainland Colony of British Columbia.

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Crimean War

The Crimean War was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between the Russian Empire and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia-Piedmont. Alaska Purchase and Crimean War are Alexander II of Russia.

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David R. Barker

David R. Barker (born May 7, 1961) is an American author, academic, businessman, and politician, who began serving as a regent on the Board of Regents of the State of Iowa on May 1, 2019.

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Department of Alaska

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. Alaska Purchase and Department of Alaska are history of the American West and pre-statehood history of Alaska.

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District of Alaska

The District of Alaska was the federal government’s designation for Alaska from May 17, 1884, to August 24, 1912, when it became the Territory of Alaska. Alaska Purchase and District of Alaska are history of the American West and pre-statehood history of Alaska.

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Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer

Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer (born Cambria Station, Chester County, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1868; died December 8, 1936, Philadelphia, age 68) was an American biographer and historical writer.

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Esquimalt

The Township of Esquimalt is a municipality at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada.

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Finnish language

Finnish (endonym: suomi or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland.

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Flag of Russia

The national flag of the Russian Federation (Государственный флаг Российской Федерации) is a tricolour of three equal horizontal bands: white on the top, blue in the middle, and red on the bottom.

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Flag of the United States

The national flag of the United States, often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternating red and white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars alternate with rows of five stars.

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French conquest of Algeria

The French conquest of Algeria took place between 1830 and 1903.

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Frigate captain

Frigate captain is a naval rank in the naval forces of several countries.

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Gadsden Purchase

The Gadsden Purchase (Venta de La Mesilla "La Mesilla sale") is a region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854. Alaska Purchase and Gadsden Purchase are history of United States expansionism, history of the American West, purchased territories and Treaties involving territorial changes.

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Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia

Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (Великий князь Константин Николаевич; 21 September 1827 – 25 January 1892) was the Emperor's Viceroy of Poland from 1862 to 1863 and a general admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy.

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Gregorian calendar

The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world.

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History of colonialism

independence. The historical phenomenon of colonization is one that stretches around the globe and across time.

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Horace Greeley

Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune.

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Hubert Howe Bancroft

Hubert Howe Bancroft (May 5, 1832 – March 2, 1918) was an American historian and ethnologist who wrote, published, and collected works concerning the western United States, Texas, California, Alaska, Mexico, Central America, and British Columbia.

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Inuit

Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), Alaska, and Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.

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James Buchanan

James Buchanan Jr. (April 23, 1791June 1, 1868) was an American lawyer, diplomat, and politician who served as the 15th president of the United States from 1857 to 1861.

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Jefferson C. Davis

Jefferson Columbus Davis (March 2, 1828 – November 30, 1879) was a regular officer of the United States Army during the American Civil War, known for the similarity of his name to that of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and for his killing of a superior officer in 1862.

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John Appleton

John Appleton (February 11, 1815 – August 22, 1864) was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat who served as the United States' first chargé d'affaires to Bolivia, and later as special envoy to Great Britain and Russia.

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John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman, politician, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829.

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Julian calendar

The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception).

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Julius Krohn

Julius Leopold Fredrik Krohn (19 April 1835 – 28 August 1888) was a Finnish folk poetry researcher, professor of Finnish literature, poet, hymn writer, translator and journalist.

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Kamchatka Peninsula

The Kamchatka Peninsula (poluostrov Kamchatka) is a peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about.

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Klondike Gold Rush

The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon, in north-western Canada, between 1896 and 1899. Alaska Purchase and Klondike Gold Rush are pre-statehood history of Alaska.

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Louisiana Purchase

The Louisiana Purchase (translation) was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. Alaska Purchase and Louisiana Purchase are history of United States expansionism, history of the American West, purchased territories and Treaties involving territorial changes.

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Lovell Rousseau

Lovell Harrison Rousseau (August 4, 1818 – January 7, 1869) was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, as well as a lawyer and politician in Kentucky and Indiana.

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Manifest destiny

Manifest destiny was a phrase that represented the belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand westward across North America, and that this belief was both obvious ("manifest") and certain ("destiny"). Alaska Purchase and Manifest destiny are history of United States expansionism.

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Mile

The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English feet, or 1,760 yards.

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New-York Tribune

The New-York Tribune (from 1914: New York Tribune) was an American newspaper founded in 1841 by editor Horace Greeley.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Oregon boundary dispute

The Oregon boundary dispute or the Oregon Question was a 19th-century territorial dispute over the political division of the Pacific Northwest of North America between several nations that had competing territorial and commercial aspirations in the region. Alaska Purchase and Oregon boundary dispute are history of United States expansionism.

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Pacific Historical Review

The Pacific Historical Review is the official publication of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association.

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Presidency of Andrew Johnson

The presidency of Andrew Johnson began on April 15, 1865, when Andrew Johnson became President of the United States upon the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and ended on March 4, 1869.

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Pribilof Islands

The Pribilof Islands (formerly the Northern Fur Seal Islands; Amiq, Ostrova Pribylova) are a group of four volcanic islands off the coast of mainland Alaska, in the Bering Sea, about north of Unalaska and 200 miles (320 km) southwest of Cape Newenham.

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Promyshlenniki

The promyshlenniki (промышленники, промышленник, promyshlennik) were Russian and Indigenous Siberian artel members, or self-employed workers drawn largely from the state serf and townsman class who engaged in the Siberian, maritime, and later fur trades. Alaska Purchase and promyshlenniki are Russian America.

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Prudhoe Bay Oil Field

Prudhoe Bay Oil Field is a large oil field on Alaska's North Slope.

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Reconstruction era

The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history following the American Civil War, dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of abolishing slavery and reintegrating the eleven former Confederate States of America into the United States. Alaska Purchase and Reconstruction era are presidency of Andrew Johnson.

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Richard Pierce (historian)

Richard Austin Pierce (July 26, 1918, Manteca, California – September 14, 2004, Kingston, Ontario) was an American historian and publisher who specialized in the Russian era of Alaska's history.

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Russian colonization of North America

From 1732 to 1867, the Russian Empire laid claim to northern Pacific Coast territories in the Americas. Alaska Purchase and Russian colonization of North America are colonial United States (Russian), pre-statehood history of Alaska, Russian America and territorial evolution of Russia.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Russian Orthodox Church

The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Moskovskiy patriarkhat), is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church.

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Russian-American Company

The Russian-American Company Under the High Patronage of His Imperial Majesty was a state-sponsored chartered company formed largely on the basis of the United American Company. Alaska Purchase and Russian-American Company are colonial United States (Russian) and Russian America.

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Russo-American Treaty of 1824

The Russo-American Treaty of 1824 (also known as the Convention of 1824) was signed in St. Petersburg between representatives of Russia and the United States on April 17, 1824, ratified by both nations on January 11, 1825 and went into effect on January 12, 1825. Alaska Purchase and Russo-American Treaty of 1824 are Bilateral treaties of Russia, Bilateral treaties of the United States, Russian America, Russian Empire–United States relations and Treaties of the Russian Empire.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Sea otter

The sea otter (Enhydra lutris) is a marine mammal native to the coasts of the northern and eastern North Pacific Ocean.

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Siberia

Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.

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Sitka, Alaska

Sitka (Sheetʼká; Ситка) is a unified city-borough in the southeast portion of the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Slavic Review

The Slavic Review is a major peer-reviewed academic journal publishing scholarly studies, book and film reviews, and review essays in all disciplines concerned with "Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, past and present".

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Sovereignty

Sovereignty can generally be defined as supreme authority.

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St. Paul, Alaska

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Suomen Kuvalehti

Suomen Kuvalehti (or 'the Finnish picture magazine') is a weekly Finnish language family and news magazine published in Helsinki, Finland.

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Territory of Alaska

The Territory of Alaska or Alaska Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from August 24, 1912, until Alaska was granted statehood on January 3, 1959. Alaska Purchase and territory of Alaska are pre-statehood history of Alaska.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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The Limestone Press

The Limestone Press is a one-man publishing house, established in 1972 by historian Richard Pierce (1918–2004).

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Tlingit

The Tlingit or Lingít are Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America and constitute two of the two-hundred thirty-one (231, as of 2022) federally recognized Tribes of Alaska.

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Ukase of 1821

The Ukase of 1821 (Указ 1821 года) was a Russian proclamation (a ukase) of territorial sovereignty over northwestern North America, roughly present-day Alaska and most of the Pacific Northwest.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Secretary of State

The United States secretary of state (SecState) is a member of the executive branch of the federal government and the head of the Department of State.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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William H. Seward

William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States senator.

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William M. Gwin

William McKendree Gwin (October 9, 1805 – September 3, 1885) was an American medical doctor and politician who served in elected office in Mississippi and California.

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Yevfimiy Putyatin

Yevfimiy Vasilyevich Putyatin (Евфи́мий Васи́льевич Путя́тин; 8 November 1803 – 16 October 1883), also known as was an admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy.

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51st parallel north

The 51st parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 51 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.

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See also

1867 in Alaska

  • Alaska Purchase

1867 in the Russian Empire

1867 in the United States

1867 treaties

Alexander II of Russia

Bilateral treaties of Russia

Bilateral treaties of the United States

Colonial United States (Russian)

March 1867 events in the United States

Presidency of Andrew Johnson

Purchased territories

Russian America

Russian Empire–United States relations

Territorial evolution of Russia

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase

Also known as Alaska Purchase Treaty, Alaska deal, Alaskan Purchase, Purchase of Alaska, Purchased Alaska, Sale of Alaska, Seward's Folly, Seward's Icebox, Sewards icebox.

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