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Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap (George Caleb Bingham, oil on canvas, 1851–52)
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1654: Colonel Abram Wood of Virginia arrives to survey the area
1720s: The French claimed almost all of the land, and established trading posts with the assistance of local American Indians
1750: Thomas Walker, a British representative, explores the area
1751: Christopher Gist explores the land fronting the Ohio River
1763: The French and Indian War ends, as the French were defeated by the British
1767: Frontiersman Daniel Boone, along with John Findley, travel into Kentucky across the Cumberland Gap
1774: The first permanent European settlement established at present-day Harrodsburg
1775: Daniel Boone and others build Fort Boonesborough in central Kentucky
1775-1802: The British and local Indians: attacked local Kentucky settlements during, and after, the Revolutionary War
1792: Kentucky becomes the 15th U.S. State
1799: Mamouth Cave complex discovered
1811: A severe earthquake rattles far-western Kentucky
1811: The first steamboat to travel along the Ohio River arrives to great fanfare, and four years later, a steamboat journeys from New Orleans, Louisiana, all the way to Louisville, and the economic impact of that event changed the state's economy
1818: The western edges of the state are purchased from the Chicasaw Indians, and is referred to as the Jackson Purchase, in honor of Andrew Jackson
1833: Kentucky bans the importation of slaves into the state. It would later reverse itself, and slave traffic increased
1860: The state tried to be neutral during the Civil War, with Kentucky troops joining both the Union Army, and the Confederate gray. Sadly, both armies invaded the state, with costly results to local property, and significant loss of life on both sides of the battle
1875: Louisville is the site of the first Kentucky Derby
1900: Governor William Goebel assassinated by gunman
1905-09: Local farmers - during the Black Patch War - burn barns and fields belonging to big tobacco interests
1937: The U.S. Treasury opens their famous gold depository at Fort Knox. That same year, devastating floods damage Ohio River valleys
1959: Cumberland Gap National Park is dedicated
1969: The Tennessee Valley Authority builds its largest steam generating planet ever: near Paradise, in Muhlenberg County
1977: A nightclub fire in Southgate kills 164
1988: Kentucky establishes a statewide lottery
1998: University of Kentucky wins NCAA Basketball Championship, their 2nd national title in three years, and 7th overall
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