The first public school term is held in Boone County. It runs for three months.
Kentucky
Kentucky becomes the first state to permit suffrage of any kind for women; property-owning single women are given the right to vote in school board elections.
The Cherokee Trail of Tears passes through western Kentucky, near Hopkinsville.
U.S. & World
Fifteen thousand Cherokee Indians remaining in Georgia are removed by federal troops who move them 800 miles westward on what will become known as the “Trail of Tears.”
John Calhoun of South Carolina introduces resolutions in the U.S. Senate affirming slavery's legality.