{"slug": "bering-strait", "label": "Bering Strait", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11769", "qid": "Q11769", "description": "strait between Asia and North America", "entries": 8, "years": 6, "span": [1648, 1987], "span_label": ["1648 CE", "1987 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 7}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "james-cook", "label": "James Cook", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "alaska", "label": "Alaska", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "vitus-bering", "label": "Vitus Bering", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "atlantic-ocean", "label": "Atlantic Ocean", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "northwest-passage", "label": "Northwest Passage", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "oregon", "label": "Oregon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "north-pole", "label": "North Pole", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kamchatka-peninsula", "label": "Kamchatka Peninsula", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1648, "year_label": "1648 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 20", "text": "June 20 – Russian explorer Semyon Dezhnyov departs from Srednekolymsk to begin the first recorded voyage through the Bering Strait, between Asia and North America, and arrives in September.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1346163846#April–June", "title": "1648", "revid": 1346163846, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1728, "year_label": "1728 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Vitus Bering sails through the Bering Strait.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349953030#Events", "title": "1728 in Canada", "revid": 1349953030, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1728, "year_label": "1728 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 14", "text": "July 14 – The First Kamchatka Expedition, led by Vitus Bering and his crew sail northward on the ship Archangel Gabriel from the Kamchatka Peninsula, through the Bering Strait, and round Cape Dezhnev.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363462071#July–September", "title": "1728", "revid": 1363462071, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1732, "year_label": "1732 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 21", "text": "August 21 – Mikhail Gvozdev in the Sviatoi Gavriil makes the first known crossing of the Bering Strait, from Cape Dezhnev to Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska, marking the first time that Europeans have reached the northwest coast of North America.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369314491#July–September", "title": "1732", "revid": 1369314491, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1778, "year_label": "1778 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 6", "text": "March 6–October 24 – Captain Cook explores and maps the Pacific Northwest coast of North America, from Cape Foulweather (Oregon) to the Bering Strait.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371073991#January–March", "title": "1778", "revid": 1371073991, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1778, "year_label": "1778 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 29", "text": "March 29 – April 26 British Captain James Cook explores Alaskan coast, seeking Northwest Passage back to the Atlantic. On the last of three voyages to the west coast, he travels as far north as the Bering Strait and claims Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island for the British. While there, he trades for sea otter pelts. On the way back to England his crew almost mutinied, desperately wanting to go back to the Pacific Northwest, after stopping in China and discovering how much sea otter pelts were worth.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349954795#Events", "title": "1778 in Canada", "revid": 1349954795, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1879, "year_label": "1879 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 8", "text": "July 8 – Led by George W. De Long, the ill-fated United States Jeannette Expedition departs San Francisco, in an attempt to reach the North Pole, by pioneering a route through the Bering Strait.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365404244#July", "title": "1879", "revid": 1365404244, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1987, "year_label": "1987 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 7", "text": "August 7 – American Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim the Bering Strait, crossing from Little Diomede Island to Big Diomede in 2 hours and 5 minutes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372769014#August", "title": "1987", "revid": 1372769014, "section": "Events › August"}}]}