456. CHRONOLOGY
1825 Louisville & Portland Canal chartered, with capital of $600,000.
March 7. Henry Clay becomes U.S. Secretary of State.
March. General Lafayette welcomed in Kentucky. Z
Science Hill Academy founded in Shelby County. I
1826 Clay-Randolph duel near Washington, D.C.
1828 February 13. Louisville becomes a city.
Natural gas discovered by Samuel White on Green River.
1829 Louisville & Portland Canal opens. 1
1830 Population 687,917. ·
January. Companies chartered to build railroad from Lexington to Ohio I
River. 1
January 29. Common-school law, providing for tax-supported schools, I
enacted.
March. Model of railway locomotive engine and coach, constructed by
Joseph Bruen of Lexington, exhibited at Frankfort. .
Oil discovered near Burkesville, during boring for salt; spouts 50 feet. (
October 22. First rail of Lexington & Ohio R.R. is laid at Lexington. 4
1831 Four hundred and six steamboats and 421 flatboats and keel-boats,
76,233 tons, pass through Louisville & Portland Canal.
" 1832 October. Asiatic cholera epidemic in many Kentucky towns:
1833 February. Importation of slaves prohibited. Legislature adopts resolu-
tions in favor of Union and against nullification.
March. Kentucky Colonization Society sends 102 freed Negroes to
Liberia.
May and August. Asiastic cholera again sweeps State.
September. Kentucky Livestock Association holds exhibit at Lexington. Z
1835 January 29. First train arrives at Frankfort from Lexington—time: 2
hours, 29 minutes. Z
1836 Richard M. Johnson elected Vice President of the United States.
Kentucky Historical Society founded at Frankfort.
1837 Medical College of Louisville (Medical School of the University of
Louisville) opened. Z
1838 February. State Agricultural Society organized.
1840 Population 779,828. Louisville College chartered (January).
Five locks and dams are under construction on Kentucky River (Dec.) I
1841 Numerous frays between abolitionists and opponents. Temperance p
movement makes gains in State. ‘
1842 February 5. Kentucky Institute for the Blind established at Louisville. ·
1844 October. Factory for spinning and weaving silk established at Newport.
1845 May. Methodist Episcopal Church, South, organized at Louisville.
June 4. True American, abolitionist joumal, established at Lexington by
Cassius M. Clay. Refuses (Aug. 14) to discontinue journal; press and
type seized.