The Legislature repeals the act awarding all county fines to the Boone Academy.
Kentucky
The first railroad in Kentucky is completed. It runs from Lexington to Frankfort.
The Kentucky General Assembly establishes the Covington and Lexington Turnpike Road Company.
U.S. & World
Twenty-eight million acres of public lands will be offered for sale in a land boom in the United States driven by immigration and also by speculative interests.
French teacher Louis Braille invents a system of raised point writing, which will be used by the blind throughout the world.