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1606 |
The first Virginia
charter includes territory that became Kentucky (April 10) |
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1654 |
Kentucky explored to the Mississippi by Colonel Wood
Kentucky Prehistory
Cherokee
Chickasaw
Iroquois
Potawatomi
Sauk and Fox
Shawnee
First Nations Histories |
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1751 |
Christopher
Gist, representing the Ohio Company, explores as far as present-day Clark
County |
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1754 |
Eskippakithiki
(ca. 1718-1754), possibly last Indian permanent settlement in historic
Kentucky, abandoned. Location is in Indian Old Fields in Clark County, Kentucky.
Occupants were Piqua, of the Shawnee nation. |
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1754 or 1755-1763 |
French and Indian
Wars |
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1769 |
Daniel Boone, John Finley and others cross the Appalachians into the region
that includes present-day Clark County, Kentucky. They camped beside Lulbegrud
Creek.
Daniel
Boone: Myth and Reality in American Consciousness
The Adventures
of Col. Daniel Boon by Daniel Boon
Daniel
Boone Information Central
Mrs. William Price's life
history |
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1772 |
Fincastle County Virginia organized; includes all of Kentucky.
Deeds index 1773-1777
Surveyors record
index |
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1775 |
The Cherokee sell eastern and central Kentucky to Colonel Richard Henderson
of the Transylvania Land Company for 10,000 pounds. His ownership claim is
overturned by the Virginia legislature. |
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Daniel Boone and "a company of 30 men with axes" connect old
paths into the Wilderness
Road |
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1775-1783 |
American
Revolution |
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1776 |
Kentucky County formed from Fincastle County, Virginia (31 December) |
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John Strode migrates from Berkeley County, Virginia, settling about one
mile west of Winchester on present US60 |
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1779 |
Colonel
Robert Patterson ( 1753-1827) begins fort construction at Lexington by
building a blockhouse at the corner of what are now Main and Mill streets. His
cabin is preserved on the
Transylvania University campus. |
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Bryan Station established |
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Boone Station
Historical Site |
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John Strode brings Boonesboro settlers also from Berkeley County, Virginia,
to his location where they built a
station with
about 30 cabins
and a defensive wall. |
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1780 |
Ruddle's and Martin's stations surrender to British
Ruddle's and Martin's Forts
Captive List: Ruddle's and Martin's
Forts |
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Kentucky County Virginia divided into Fayette, Jefferson and Lincoln
counties (May). Fayette County named for the
Marquis de Lafayette
(1757-1834) |
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1782 |
General Assembly of Virginia charters Lexington |
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Virginia establishes judicial district of Kentucky |
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End of major settler-Indian conflict in Kentucky |
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1785 |
Boone's Creek
Baptist Church founded |
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1786 |
Bourbon County
formed from Fayette County (01 May) |
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1792 |
Kentucky
admitted as the fifteenth state of the union and the first west of the
Alleghenies (June 1) |
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First Kentucky Legislature meets at Lexington--Frankfort selected as
capitol (04 June) |
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1793 |
Clark County
formed from Bourbon and Fayette Counties Kentucky |
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City of
Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky incorporated; named for Winchester
Virginia, the former home of its founder, John Baker |
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1795 |
First pure-bred
shorthorn
cattle west of the Alleghenies brought to the Matthew Patton farm in now
Clark County, Kentucky |
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1797 |
Montgomery County
formed from Clark County Kentucky |
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1798 |
"Kentucky resolutions" passed in favor of nullifying alien and
sedition laws.
1798
draft compared with 1799 resolution |
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Henry Clay advocates gradual emancipation of slaves |
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Stage route established from Lexington through Winchester and Mount
Sterling to Olympian Springs in Bath County |
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1808 |
Estill County
formed from Clark and Madison Counties |
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1810 |
Renowned sculptor Joel
Tanner Hart (1810-1877) born in Winchester |
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1811 |
Henry Clay is speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives |
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1812-1814 |
War of 1812 |
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Henry Clay is a presidential candidate |
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1825 |
Henry Clay
appointed U.S. Secretary of State |
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1836 |
James A.
Clark, Clark County native, elected Kentucky's twelfth governor |
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1837 |
national economic crash affects local businesses |
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1846-1848 |
Mexican-American
War |
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1851 |
Emancipated slaves required to leave state (March) |
|
1852 |
Henry Clay dies in Washington DC (June 29)
H.
Clay manuscript, archival collections |
|
1852 |
Powell County
Kentucky formed from Clark, Estill and Montgomery Counties |
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1856 |
John Cabell Breckinridge of Lexington elected United States Vice President |
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1861-1865 |
United States
Civil War |
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1861 |
Legislature adjourns rather than call a convention that could result in
Kentucky's secession from the union (February 11) |
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Governor Magoffin refuses to furnish militia for the Union (April 15);
President Lincoln says that he will not attack Kentucky as long as it remains
neutral |
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A "Sovereignty Convention" at Russellville declares Kentucky a
Confederate state with Bowling Green as the capitol (November 18) |
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Kentucky delegates are seated in the Confederate Congress (December 10-12 |
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1862 |
Legislature rules that anyone in the Confederate Army or service who gives
voluntary aid against the United States or Kenticky is expatriated, unless
specifically exempted (March 11) |
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U.S. Military Commandant of Kentucky appointed (June 1) |
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Confederate General John
Hunt Morgan, (1825-1864) a Lexington native, conducts first raids in
Kentucky (July) |
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Provisional (Confederate) Government holds inaugural ceremonies in
Frankfort, but flees the city four hours later (October 4) |
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1862 |
Company
C, 11th Kentucky "Chenault's Cavalry", CSA recruited from Clark
County KY men |
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1863 |
President Abraham Lincoln issues
Emancipation
Proclamation (January 1) |
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1864 |
President Lincoln places Kentucky under martial law (July) |
|
1865 |
Kentucky legislature rejects
Thirteenth
Amendment to the US Constitution (February 24) |
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College of Agriculture, to be part of the Kentucky University and located
at or near Lexington, established by legislature (1865) |
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President Johnson restores privilege of writ of habeus corpus to all border
states except Kentucky (November 30) |
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1866 |
Kentucky Wesleyan College founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church and
located in Winchester (later relocated to Owensboro) |
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1867 |
Kentucky legislature rejects
Fourteenth
Amendment to the US Constitution (January 8) |
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Kentucky legislature passes amnesty bill (February) |
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1868 |
Morgan's
Men Association, Inc. founded at Lexington |
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1869 |
Kentucky legislature rejects
Fifteenth
Amendment to the US Constitution (March 12) |
|
1880 |
The Iroquois Hunt established. Continues in old
Grimes Mill |
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Laura Clay, daughter of Madison County abolitionist Cassius Clay, begins
the Kentucky Equal Rights Association in Lexington |
|
1898-1899 |
Spanish American
War |
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1899-1902 |
Phillipine-
American War
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1914-1918 |
World War I |
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1918 |
Influenza
Pandemic |
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1929 |
stock market crash result in increased growing of tobacco as a cash crop;
prices fell as a result of over-production |
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1939-1945 |
World War II |
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1950-1953 |
Korean War |
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1961-1975 |
Vietnam War |
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1976 |
Kentucky ratifies Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution (March 18) |
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Kentucky ratifies Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution (March 18) |
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Kentucky ratifies Fifteenth Amendment to the US Constitution (March 18) |
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