When did Vitus Bering sail through the Bering Strait?

Vitus Bering sailed through the Bering Strait in August 1728.1

He had departed from the Kamchatka Peninsula on July 13, 1728, as part of an expedition commissioned by Tsar Peter I to determine if Asia and North America were connected by land. Although he successfully passed through the strait into the Arctic Ocean, poor weather conditions limited his observations, though he ultimately concluded that the two continents were separate.1

It is worth noting that while Bering is often associated with this discovery, the Russian explorer Semyon Dezhnyov had actually sailed through the strait earlier, in 1648, though his findings remained largely unknown until 1736.1