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The early settlers settled in Kentucky in 1621.
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1739 Captin Charles Delongueuil discovers land that would eventually be Kentucky.
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While leading an expedition for the Loyal Land Company in what is now southeastern Kentucky, Dr.Thomas Walker was the first recorded American of Eropean decent to discover and use coal in Kentucky.
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France gives over land, later to be named Kentucky, to Britain.
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Danial Boone discovers the Cumberland Gap.
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Daniel Boone settled in Kentucky on May 1, 1769.
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Danial Boone returned to Clinch River on August 26th 1774 after traveling 800 miles in two months.
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Daniel Boone was a militia officer during the Revolutionary War, which in Kentucky was fought primarily between the Europeans settlers and the British aided Native Americans.
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The Virginia General Assembly annexed Kentucky as a Virginia County.
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By early 1778, April 22, the population of Kentucky was about 200.
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Was one of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War.
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The Treaty of Paris was signed between Britain and America on September 3,1783 and quickly ratified by Congress.
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Conventions begin trying to prepare way for separation of Kentucky from Virginia.
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The Wilderness Road is opened up to wagons. This allowed more people to move to new lands.
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Henry Clay, native of Kentucky, is elected to Congress.
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On Febuary 4, 1818 Cristopher Greenup was elected for governor.
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There was a Battle of Middle Creek January 10th 1862. It was in Floyd County, Kentucky and it was in the American Civil War.
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The University of Kentucky was established by the state of Kentucky in 1865 as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of the Kentucky University.
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The First Kentucky Derby was ran on May,17 1875.
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The 1891 Kentucky Derby was the 17th running of the Kentucky Derby.The winning time 2:52:25 the slowest winning time.
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Nathan Stubblefield has been proposed for the invention of wireless telephony. He made private demonstrations of wireless telephony in that time also.
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William Goebel was an American politicion who was the 34th govenor of Kentucky for a few days in1900 after been wounded by an assasin the day before he was sworn in.
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Kentucky experienced four diffrent govenors in less than three months time, between early December of 1899 and early February of 1900.
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The 1909 Kentucky Derby was the 35th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 3,1909. Hores T.MGreen, Ada Meade and Woolwinder scrathed before the race.
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In 1920, the League of Women Woters was formed to help women fullfill their new responsibilities as voters. Today the men and women of the LWV carry on that legacy.
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William .J. Fields was the forty first governor of Kentucky.
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My Old Kentucky Home was published March 19 1928.
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Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
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Vice President Richard M. Nixon gives a speech during the dedication of Cumberland Gap National Historical Park on July 3rd.
