1829
1829
Benjamin Stephens is Sheriff. His deputies are James N. Stephens and William R. Stephens.
Events
Boone County
Kentucky
U.S. & World
Andrew Jackson is inaugurated as the seventh U.S. President.
Mexico abolishes
slavery, but the Texas territory is exempted from abolition.
Photographer Louis Daguerre accidentally finds that silver iodide is light-sensitive, and so invents the daguerreotype, one of the most commonly used forms of photography during the 19th century.
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