1860s

## 1860

* March 5 – Wolfe County formed.
* March 17 – Fred Pfeffer born.
* March 17 – Beverly L. Clarke died, aged 51.
* March 25 – Jennie Carter Benedict born.
* March 28 – Tom McLaughlin born.
* April 20 – Anna J. Hamilton born.
* June 16 – Belle Brezing born.
* October 12 – Elvira Sydnor Miller born.
* November 22 – Nathan Beverly Stubblefield born.
* December 3 – John Y. Brown entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 5th District.

## 1861

* January 24 – Robert P. Letcher died, aged 72.
* February 2 – Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. born.
* March 4 – John C. Breckinridge left office as US Vice President.
* March 4 – John J. Crittenden left office as US Senator from Kentucky.
* March 4 – Samuel Peyton left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 2nd District.
* March 4 – Francis Bristow left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 3rd District.
* March 4 – William Clayton Anderson left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 4th District.
* March 4 – John Y. Brown left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 5th District.
* March 4 – Green Adams left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 6th District.
* March 4 – William E. Simms left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 8th District.
* March 4 – Laban T. Moore left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 9th District.
* March 4 – John W. Stevenson left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 10th District.
* March 4 – Abraham Lincoln entered office as US President.
* March 4 – Mary Todd Lincoln entered office as US First Lady.
* March 4 – John C. Breckinridge entered office as US Senator from Kentucky.
* March 4 – James S. Jackson entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 2nd District.
* March 4 – Henry Grider entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 3rd District.
* March 4 – Aaron Hardin entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 4th District.
* March 4 – Charles A. Wickliffe entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 5th District.
* March 4 – George W. Dunlap entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 6th District.
* March 4 – John J. Crittenden entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 8th District.
* March 4 – William H. Wadsworth entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 9th District.
* March 4 – John W. Menzies entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 10th District.
* April 1 – David Grant Colson born.
* April 5 – Ed Kennedy born.
* April 16 – Isaac Burns Murphy born.
* June 17 – Pete Browning born.
* June 28 – Mox McQuery born.
* June 29 – Len Sowders born.
* July 9 – John Hunt Morgan's Confederate cavalry captured Tompkinsville.
* July 13 – Don Calvin Edwards born.
* July 14 – Joshua Jewitt died, aged 45.
* August 28 – Charles Reising born.
* September 4 – Confederate General Leonidas Polk broke Kentucky's neutrality by invading Columbus.
* September 6 – General Ulysses S. Grant's forces captured Paducah from the Confederate forces.
* September 7 – Charles Mynn Thruston appointed Brigadier General of US Volunteers.
* September 19 – Evett Dumas Nix born.
* November 16 – Lucy Wilmot Smith born.
* December 3 – Henry Cornelius Bennett left office a US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 1st District.
* December 4 – Federal Senate voted 30-0 to expel Senator John C. Breckinridge for joining Confederacy.
* December 4 – John C. Breckinridge left office as US Senator from Kentucky.
* December 10 – Kentucky was admitted to Confederate States of America.
* December 10 – Garrett Davis entered office as US Senator from Kentucky.
* December 13 – James S. Jackson left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 2nd District.
* December 23 – William Clayton Anderson died, aged 34.

## 1862

* January 10 – Battle of Big Sandy River occurred.
* January 19 – Felix Zollicoffer died, aged 49.
* January 29 – William Quantrill and his Confederate Raiders attack Danville.
* February 3 – James Clark McReynolds born.
* February 20 – Ethelbert L. Dudley died, aged ~44.
* February 21 – George Nicholas Bascom died, aged ~24.
* February 22 – Jefferson Davis entered office as Confederate President.
* February 26 – Battle of Woodburn occurred.
* March 10 – Samuel L. Casey entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 1st District.
* April 4 – John McCloskey born.
* April 6 – Albert Sidney Johnston died, aged 59.
* April 8 – George W. Johnson died, aged 50.
* April 8 – George W. Johnson left office as Confederate Governor of Kentucky.
* April 29 – Joseph Alexander Altsheler born.
* May 2 – Ollie Beard born.
* May 12 – Jimmy Wolf born.
* May 31 – Richard Hawes entered office as 2nd Confederate Governor of Kentucky.
* June 7 – Phil Reccius born.
* June 16 – Alma Bridwell White born.
* July 4 – Battle at Green River occurred.
* July 15 – James Nicholas Kehoe born.
* August 6 – Elizabeth Robins born.
* August 8 – Mary Virginia Cook Parrish born.
* August 12 – Nathan Gaither died, aged 73.
* August 18 – Beriah Magoffin left office as Governor of Kentucky.
* August 18 – James F. Robinson entered office as 22nd Governor of Kentucky.
* September 22 – William J. Dodd born.
* September 23 – Marcus Claiborne Lisle born.
* October 8 – Enoch Milton Benson died, aged 37.
* October 8 – James S. Jackson died, aged 39.
* October 8 – The Union was victorious at the Battle of Perryville.
* October 18 – John Hunt Morgan's Raiders captured federal garrison at Lexington.
* November 5 – Annie Laurie Wilson James born.
* December 1 – George Helm Yeaman entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 2nd District.
* December 9 – William Owsley died, aged 80.
* December 16 – John Fox, Jr. born.
* December 27 – Columbus P. Chastain died, aged 14.
* December 27 – Battle of Elizabethtown occurred.

## 1863

* January 4 – Joseph L. Rhinock born.
* January 8 – Ellen Churchill Semple born.
* February 23 – James Harlan died, aged 62.
* March 4 – Samuel L. Casey left office as US House of Representatives, 1st District.
* March 4 – Charles A. Wickliffe left office as US House of Representatives, 5th District.
* March 4 – George W. Dunlap left office as US House of Representatives, 6th District.
* March 4 – Robert Mallory left office as US House of Representatives, 7th District.
* March 4 – John J. Crittenden left office as US House of Representatives, 8th District.
* March 4 – John W. Menzies left office as US House of Representatives, 10th District.
* March 4 – Lucien Anderson entered office as US House of Representatives, 1st District.
* March 4 – Robert Mallory entered office as US House of Representatives, 5th District.
* March 4 – Green Clay Smith entered office as US House of Representatives, 6th District.
* March 4 – Brutus J. Clay entered office as US House of Representatives, 7th District.
* March 4 – William H. Randall entered office as US House of Representatives, 8th District.
* March 18 – Bob Clark born.
* March 25 – Simon Flexner born.
* April 14 – James Reily died, aged 51.
* April 18 – Charles Kennedy Wheeler born.
* May 12 – Joseph Morgan Kendall born.
* June 10 – Herschel Mayall born.
* June 18 – James J. Gaffney born.
* June 25 – Andrew Eugene Erwin died, aged 32.
* July 26 – John J. Crittenden died, aged 75.
* August 20 – William Thomas McQuery born.
* September 1 – James F. Robinson left office as Governor of Kentucky.
* September 1 – Thomas E. Bramlette entered office as 23rd Governor of Kentucky.
* September 20 – Benjamin Hardin Helm died, aged 32.
* November 6 – Archibald Thomas Robertson born.
* November 22 – Charlie Hamburg born.
* November 22 – Fannie Caldwell Macaulay born.
* December 16 – John Buford died, aged 37.

## 1864

* January 26 – James Brown Clay died, aged 46.
* March 4 – Jack Bellman born.
* March 25 – Battle of Paducah occurred.
* April 13 – South Trimble born.
* April 15 – Hub Collins born.
* June 10 – Francis Bristow died, aged 59.
* July 22 – Pierman Powell died, aged 22.
* July 22 – Charles W. Thompson died, aged ~20.
* July 24 – James E. Rankin died, aged 53.
* August 25 – Jim Beam born.
* September 4 – John Hunt Morgan died, aged 39.
* September 19 – James W. Moss died, aged 41.
* September 22 – Thomas Francis Marshall died, aged 63.
* October 1 – Kid Baldwin born.
* October 16 – Ben Mitchell Williamson born.
* November 29 – Bill Sowders born.
* December 19 – William O. Boyle died, aged 19.
* December 24 – John Preston Martin died, aged 53.

## 1865

* January 11 – Joseph Henry Bush died, aged ~73.
* January 19 – Bill Anderson born.
* February 6 – John C. Breckinridge entered office as Confederate States Secretary of War.
* February 22 – June Ward Gayle born.
* March 4 – Lazarus W. Powell left office as US Senator from Kentucky.
* March 4 – Lucien Anderson left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 1st District.
* March 4 – George Helm Yeaman left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 2nd District.
* March 4 – Robert Mallory left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 5th District.
* March 4 – Brutus J. Clay left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 7th District.
* March 4 – William H. Wadsworth left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 9th District.
* March 4 – James Guthrie entered office as US Senator from Kentucky.
* March 4 – Lawrence S. Trimble entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 1st District.
* March 4 – Burwell C. Ritter entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 2nd District.
* March 4 – Lovell Rousseau entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 5th District.
* March 4 – George S. Shanklin entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 7th District.
* March 4 – Samuel McKee entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 9th District.
* March 15 – Marcellus Jerome Clarke died, aged 20.
* March 19 – Leander Cox died, aged 52.
* March 23 – Madison Cawein born.
* March 23 – Paul Sawyier born.
* March 26 – Charles Finley born.
* April 9 – Richard Hawes left office as Confederate Governor of Kentucky.
* April 15 – Abraham Lincoln died, aged 56.
* April 15 – Abraham Lincoln left office as US President.
* April 15 – Mary Todd Lincoln left office as US First Lady.
* April 17 – Ernest Hogan born.
* April 19 – Samuel F. Swope died, aged 56.
* May 10 – Clark L. Hockensmith died, aged 22.
* May 10 – Jefferson Davis left office as Confederate States President.
* May 10 – John C. Breckinridge left office as Confederate States

Secretary of War.

* May 15 – Marcellus Jerome Clarke died, aged 22.
* June 6 – William Clark Quantrill died, aged 27.
* June 22 – Thomas Barlow died, aged 75.
* July 21 – Nathaniel Fish McClure born.
* August 15 – Edwin L. Norris born.
* September 28 – Emma Guy Cromwell born.
* December 2 – Harvey Helm born.

## 1866

* March 19 – Andrew Jackson Kirk born.
* April 1 – Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge born.
* July 13 – Green Clay Smith left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 6th District.
* September 7 – Henry Grider died, aged 70.
* September 7 – Henry Grider left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 3rd District.
* September 17 – George Caldwell died, aged 51.
* September 29 – Gus Weyhing born.
* October 1 – Henry Cornelius Burnett died, aged 40.
* October 15 – J. A. "Bud" Hillerich born.
* November 13 – Abraham Flexner born.
* December 3 – Elijah Hise entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 3rd District.
* December 3 – Andrew H. Ward entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 6th District.
* December 10 – John Sowders born.
* December 16 – Eli Metcalfe Bruce died, aged 38.
* December 17 – Cap Robert Carden born.

## 1867

* March 4 – Burwell C. Ritter left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 2nd District.
* March 4 – Elijah Hise left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 3rd District.
* March 4 – Aaron Hardin left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 4th District.
* March 4 – Lovell Rousseau left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 5th District.
* March 4 – Andrew H. Ward left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 6th District.
* March 4 – George S. Shanklin left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 7th District.
* March 4 – William H. Randall left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 8th District.
* March 4 – Samuel McKee left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 9th District.
* March 4 – Jacob Golladay entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 3rd District.
* March 4 – J. Proctor Knott entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 4th District.
* March 4 – Asa Grover entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 5th District.
* March 4 – Thomas Laurens Jones entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 6th District.
* March 4 – James B. Beck entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 7th District.
* March 4 – George Madison Adams entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 8th District.
* March 22 – Nicholas Reed born.
* May 8 – Elijah Hise died, aged 64.
* May 21 – Augustus Owsley Stanley born.
* June 5 – Theodore O'Hara died, aged 47.
* June 8 – Robert Wickliffe Cooper died, aged 35.
* July 3 – Lazarus W. Powell died, aged 54.
* August 1 – Bell County formed.
* August 6 – Alexander Von Schrader died, aged 43.
* August 22 – William Lewis born.
* September 3 – Thomas E. Bramlette left office as Governor of Kentucky.
* September 3 – John L. Helm entered office as 24th Governor of Kentucky.
* September 8 – John L. Helm died, aged 65.
* September 8 – John L. Helm left office as Governor of Kentucky.
* September 8 – John W. Stevenson entered office as 25th Governor of Kentucky.
* October 19 – Oscar Turner, Jr. born.
* December 1 – Robert A. Alexander died, aged 48.

## 1868

* January 3 – John McKenzie Moss born.
* January 14 – John W. Langley born.
* February 7 – James Guthrie left office as US Senator from Kentucky.
* February 19 – Thomas C. McCreery entered office as US Senator from Kentucky.
* March 20 – The James Gang robbed a bank in Russellville of $14,000.
* March 27 – Patty Hill born.
* April 9 – Joseph L. Beam born.
* May 23 – Kit Carson died, aged 58.
* June 2 – Artishia Gilbert born.
* June 9 – James Tandy Ellis born.
* June 22 – Samuel McKee entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 9th District.
* August 31 – Red Ehret born.
* October 10 – Anne Hazen McFarland born.
* November 9 – Henry English Read died, aged 43.
* December 7 – Edgar Hager born.
* December 17 – Frederic Moseley Sackett, Jr. born.
* December 21 – Charles S. Morehead died, aged 66.

## 1869

* January 7 – Lovell Rousseau died, aged 50.
* January 11 – Olive Tilford Dargan born.
* January 15 – Ruby Laffoon born.
* February 1 – Caleb Powers born.
* February 9 – Harry Pulliam born.
* March 4 – Asa Grover left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 5th District.
* March 4 – Samuel McKee left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 9th District.
* March 4 – William N. Sweeney entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 2nd District.
* March 4 – Boyd Winchester entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 5th District.
* March 4 – John McConnell Rice entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 9th District.
* March 13 – James Guthrie died, aged 76.
* May 10 – Rachel Davis Harris born.
* May 11 – Thomas M. Doherty born.
* July 3 – Aylette Buckner died, aged 62.
* August 5 – J. C. W. Beckham born.
* August 6 – George Post Wheeler born.
* August 25 – David McDonald died, aged 66.
* September 22 – George Wood Monroe died, aged 64.
* October 2 – Scott Stratton born.
* October 6 – Enid Yandell born.
* October 31 – Charles A. Wickliffe died, aged 80.
* November 15 – Harry B. Hawes born.