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====== 1850's ======
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===== Events =====
==== Boone County ====
  * 1850 - Florence Academy is established.

==== Kentucky ====
  * 1850 - Kentucky's fourth constitution goes into effect. It retains all the [[slavery|slave]] provisions from the previous constitution, and now requires emancipated slaves to leave the state.

==== U.S. & World ====
  * 1850 - President Zachary Taylor dies.  He is succeeded by Millard Fillmore.
  * 1850 - The Fugitive Slave Law, part of Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850, is passed.  Assistance by government officials in capturing runaway [[slavery|slaves]] is now required.
  * 1851 - The New York Times begins publishing a daily newspaper.