East Bend Baptist Church is organized.

Sand Run Baptist Church is organized.

The Burlington Library Company is incorporated.

General John Adair, a hero of the War of 1812, is elected governor.

The Replevin Law is passed and creditors have to accept notes of the Bank of the Commonwealth which are virtually worthless.

First commercial coal mine in Kentucky, known as the “McLean drift bank” opens in Muhlenberg County Kentucky.

The first commercial oil well in Kentucky opens on the Cumberland River in McCreary County.

The Panic of 1819 causes widespread foreclosures, bank failures and unemployment.

Spain cedes Florida to the United States; the territory will become a state 26 years later.

Unitarianism is founded by William Ellering Channing in Boston. The movement has roots in the Protestant Reformation and liberal New England Congregationalism.

The first commercially produced eating chocolate is made in Vevy, Switzerland.