{"slug": "vitus-bering", "label": "Vitus Bering", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitus_Bering", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127641", "qid": "Q127641", "description": "Danish-born Russian explorer (1681-1741)", "entries": 9, "years": 6, "span": [1681, 1741], "span_label": ["1681 CE", "1741 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 6}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "saint-petersburg", "label": "Saint Petersburg", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "siberia", "label": "Siberia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "alaska", "label": "Alaska", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kamchatka-peninsula", "label": "Kamchatka Peninsula", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bering-strait", "label": "Bering Strait", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1681, "year_label": "1681 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "August 5", "text": "August 5 – Vitus Bering, Danish-born Russian explorer (d. 1741)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361310073#Births", "title": "1681", "revid": 1361310073, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1727, "year_label": "1727 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 6", "text": "January 6 – Martin Spanberg and two other members of the First Kamchatka expedition arrive in Okhotsk, after a journey from Saint Petersburg of almost two years. After the end of winter, the 63-member group, commanded by Vitus Bering, proceeds to the Kamchatka River, to prepare for exploration of the Arctic.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360176234#January–March", "title": "1727", "revid": 1360176234, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"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": 1728, "year_label": "1728 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 16", "text": "August 16 – Because of advancing Arctic ice, the First Kamchatka Expedition turns around after Vitus Bering concludes (inaccurately) that it had reached the easternmost point of Russia and Asia, and fails to spot the coast of Alaska because of the weather.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363462071#July–September", "title": "1728", "revid": 1363462071, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1730, "year_label": "1730 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "February 28", "text": "February 28 – Vitus Bering returns to the Russian capital of Saint Petersburg after completing the First Kamchatka expedition.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560881#January–March", "title": "1730", "revid": 1369560881, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1732, "year_label": "1732 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "October 16", "text": "October 16 – Russia approves the second Kamchatka expedition of Danish-born Russian cartographer Vitus Bering, and the Admiralty orders him to sail east and try to claim uncharted lands in North America.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369314491#October–December", "title": "1732", "revid": 1369314491, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1741, "year_label": "1741 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 4", "text": "May 4 – Vitus Bering sets out from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to map the coasts of Siberia and Alaska.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360183595#April–June", "title": "1741", "revid": 1360183595, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1741, "year_label": "1741 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 19", "text": "December 19 – Vitus Bering, Danish-born Russian explorer (b. 1681)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360183595#Deaths", "title": "1741", "revid": 1360183595, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1741, "year_label": "1741 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 19", "text": "December 19 – Vitus Bering dies during his expedition, east of Siberia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360183595#October–December", "title": "1741", "revid": 1360183595, "section": "Events › October–December"}}]}