Europeans began arriving in the early 1500s (ie. 1492), though arguably it has been said that Europeans could have crossed the bearing straight before that period. As far as historians can prove though, the early 1500s is that time. - <3
Coverture held that no female person had a legal identity. At birth, a female baby was covered by her father's identity, and then, when she married, by her husband's. The husband and wife became one–and that one was the husband. ... They were “feme coverts,” covered women
