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In 14 A.D. the Norton Tradition, a culture that developed in the Western Arctic near the Alaskan shore, spread from the Bering and Chukchi Seas towards the Firth River in the Yukon Territory of present day Canada.
In 500 B.C. the Dorset culture, a Paleo-Eskimo people that preceded the Inuit culture, migrates to the Sisimiut area.
In 986 A.D. Erik the Red settled on the southern tip of Greenland after he was exiled from Iceland. During his short exile, he and his settlers had no contact with other peoples.
Beginning in 1576, colonial monarchs sent explorers West and North to find new passages to Asia, and to find natural resources.
Since 16,000 B.C., carbon dating suggests people have lived in the Arctic region of current-day Russia.
Henry Hudson, an Englishman working for Muscovy Company of London, takes the first of a series of voyages in 1607 in pursuit of finding a sought after Northwest Passage from Europe to Asia. Instead, he reaches the east coast of Greenland.
Starting in 1615, Baffin's made his observations of the Hudson Strait.
Incorporated in 1670 by a royal charter of King Charles II, the company was then known as The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay.
In 1721 Hans Egede, a Dano-Norwegian missionary, led a mission to Greenland. This allowed regular direct contact between the Europeans and the Inuit. He founded present day Nuuk. It wasn’t until 1756 that a colony was established.
Beginning in 1725, Vitrus Bering, a Dane, was a Russian Naval officer who undertook the Kamchatka Expeditions.
The old colony of Sisimiut, where indigenous peoples lived for centuries, was colonized by the Danes in 1756. The colony was named Holsteinsborg after Count Johan Ludvig Holstein.
From 1776 until 1779, under the command of James Cook, the Discovery and Resolution set sail up the west coast of North America towards the Bering Strait.
In 3000 B.C. the Saqqaq people of the Sisimiut area, on the eastern coast of present day Greenland, inhabit the land.
In 4000 B.C. the Aleut-Eskimo people migrated to the Arctic region.
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