Kentucky: Timeline

1767   North Carolina North Carolina

North Carolina is a state [i] in the Southeastern [i] United States [i] ... 

 woodsman Daniel Boone Daniel Boone

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 goes through the Cumberland Gap and reaches Kentucky - in defiance of a decree from King George III George III of the United Kingdom

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. He discovers a rich hunting ground, contested by several Native American tribes.

1773   Daniel Boone Daniel Boone

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 leads some pioneers into Kentucky. "Native American Indigenous peoples in the United States

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 Indians" attack, and Boone's son is killed

1778   The term thoroughbred was first used in the United States United States

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 in an advertisement in a Kentucky gazette to describe a New Jersey New Jersey

New Jersey is a state [i] in the Mid-Atlantic [i] and Northeastern [i] ... 

 stallion called Pilgarlick.

1792   Kentucky is admitted as the 15th U.S. state U.S. state

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 and as one of its first orders of business ratifies all twelve articles of the Bill of Rights United States Bill of Rights

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, including one that is technically still pending for consideration.

1812   The Old Oscar Pepper Distillery (now the Labrot & Graham Distillery), the oldest Kentucky Bourbon distillery, is established along Glenn's Creek in Woodford County, Kentucky.

1861   American Civil War: Kentucky proclaims its neutrality which will last until September 3 when Confederate Confederate States of America

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 forces enter the state. North Carolina North Carolina

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 secedes from the Union United States

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1861   American Civil War American Civil War

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: Confederate Confederate States of America

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 General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union United States

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 assistan

1862   American Civil War American Civil War

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: Battle of Perryville - Union United States

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 forces under General Don Carlos Buell halt the Confederate Confederate States of America

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 invasion of Kentucky by defeating troops led by General Braxton Bragg Braxton Bragg

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 at Perryville, Kentucky.

1966   The Texas Western Miners defeat the Kentucky Wildcats with 5 black starters, ushering in desegregation in athletic recruiting.

1988   Two U.S. Army helicopters collide in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, killing 17 servicemen.

1992   Kentucky celebrates its bicentennial statehood.

1999   US Army Pf Barry Winchell is bludgeoned in his sleep at Fort Campbell, Kentucky by fellow soldiers. He dies on July 6 as a result of his injuries.

2005   Evansville Tornado of November 2005: A tornado Tornado

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 hits western Kentucky and southwestern Indiana Indiana

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, killing at least 22.