454 CHRONOLOGY .
1796 Lexington Library established with 400 volumes.
1797 July. Thomas Powers, Spanish agent "to concert a separation of Ken-
tucky from the Union," again comes to Kentucky.
November. Henry Clay arrives from Virginia; opens law odice in Lex-
ington.
1798 February. Legislature endows each of ive Kentucky academies with
6,000 acres of land.
june. ]ohn Fitch, steamboat inventor, dies at Bardstown.
November. "Kentucky resolutions of 1798," favoring nullification of
alien and sedition laws, passed by legislature.
Henry Clay advocates gradual emancipation of slaves.
December. Transylvania University established by union of Transyl-
vania Seminary (founded 1780) and Kentucky Academy (founded
1796).
1799 August. Constitutional convention meets at Frankfort.
1800 Population 220,955. Right of deposit for American trade at New Or-
leans suspended, creating great excitement in Kentucky. Great Revival
begins in Kentucky in ]uly.
1802 Kentucky Insurance Company chartered, with banking powers, at Lex-
ington.
1803 First stage route from Lexington via Winchester and Mount Sterling
to Olympian Springs in Bath County.
1805 State legislature charters company to construct canal around Falls of
Ohio River at Louisville. Aaron Burr makes first visit to Kentucky.
John Breckinridge becomes U.S. Attorney General.
1806 ]uly 4. Western World, new Frankfort weekly, describes intrigues with
Spain, implicating Wilkinson, Brown, Innes, and others.
November 3. Aaron Burr, charged with high misdemeanor, appears in
Frankfort court; defended by Henry Clay and acquitted (December
2). His acquittal celebrated by brilliant ball at Frankfort.
December. Bank of_ Kentucky organized with authorized capital of
$1,000,000.
1808 Bardstown becomes seat of Catholic "mother diocese" of region west
of Alleghenies.
]une 3. Jefferson Davis born in Christian County.
1809 ]ohn Hutchins discovers Mammoth Cave.
Dr. Ephraim McDowell, "father of ovariotomy," successfully performs,
at Danville, first operation in world for excision of ovarian tumor.
january 19. Clay and Marshall hght duel near Louisville. ·
February 12. Abraham Lincoln born in Hardin (now Larue) County.
1810 Population 406,511.
1811 january 31. Lands granted at 10 cents per acre to encourage building of
iron and salt works in Pulaski and Wayne Counties.