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Early on the morning of Sunday, September 9, 1739, 20 black slaves met in a seceret hideout near the Stono River in South Carolina to plan their escape to freedom.
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Thomas Walker explores Kentucky through the Cumberland Gap.
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Settlers started to enter Kentucky, they came to defiance of British Royal Proclamation of 1763.
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Daniel Boone, John Finely, John Stewart, Joseph Holden, James Monay, and William Cool wondered the well known country of Kentucky.
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Harrodsburg was founded in Kentucky.
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A storm struck the Eastern coast of Newfoundland on September 9, 1775. Febuary 26th British soldiers attemped to seize munitions of Salem, Massachussetts( Salem bridge alarm)
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The longest siege in the United States frontier history was the thirteen day siege of Fort Boonesborough in September 1778.
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The first Baptist Church west of the Allegheny Mountains
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The Battle of the Blue Licks was one the last battles of the American Revoltionary War.
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Kentucky became the 15th state in America.
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August 19, 1796 Treaty of San Ildefonso between France and Spain, the two became allies.
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On October 1st, 1849 Commonwealth of Kentucky was first adopted in 1792 and has been written 3 times since then. Other versions were adopted in the years of 1799, 1850, and 1892.
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General Prentiss was honored by a communication from another of those patriotic of Kentucky ,who are so eager to protect her "sacred soil" from pollution by the presence of the lawful troops of the goverment to which her citizens owes paramounts allegiance.
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The Battle of Perryville also known as the Battle of Chaplin Hills. It was the largest Civil War battle fought in the state of Kentucky.
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The surrender of General of the South Robert E Lee that ended the Confederacy.
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The Very First Kentucky Derby was held on the date of May 17th, 1875 at the Church Hill Downs. Oliver Lewis crossed the finish line before anyone else did so he was the winner of the very first Kentucky Derby.
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A Kentuckian by the name of Nathan Stubblefield invents the first radio.
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Kentucky experinced four governors in less than three months time, between early December of 1899 and early February of 1900.
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Governer William Goebel was shot by an assasin on January 30,1900. He died on Febuary 3,1900.
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Kentucky's State Capitol building was finished being built.
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McCreary County was the last county in Kentucky to be created and this county was created in 1912.
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Lexington segregated its public parks until 1956.
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On August 26, 1920 constitutional amendment is adopted when Tennessee ratifies it, granting full woman suffrage in all of the United States.
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Cumberland Gap National Historical Park dedicated.
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Moneta Sleet Jr. was the first African American who won the Puitlzer Prize. He was a native of Kentucky.
