1870s

## 1870

* January 4 – Samuel Peyton died, aged 65.
* January 11 – Alice Hegan Rice born.
* January 20 – Benjamin Winslow Dudley died, aged 84.
* January 22 – George D. Prentice died, aged 67.
* February 2 – Walker Hines born.
* February 28 – Lulu Vere Childers born.
* February 28 – Jacob Golladay left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 3rd District.
* March 26 – Judson Lincoln Newhall born.
* April 9 – Robert E. Lee Blackburn born.
* May 10 – Joseph Horace Lewis entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 3rd District.
* June 5 – Fred Zahner born.
* July 9 – J. Campbell Cantrill born.
* August 3 – Urban Velentine Williams Darlington born.
* August 14 – Meshack Stacy, Jr. died, aged ~78.
* August 15 – Maurice Hudson Thatcher born.
* August 17 – Joshua Fry Bell died, aged 68.
* September 1 – Martin County formed.
* September 22 – Michael Riley Powers born.
* October 14 – Laban Lacy Rice born.
* December 20 – William Cotton Hobdy born.

## 1871

* January 3 – Charles Swain Lovell died, aged 59.
* January 5 – Marion C. Taylor died, aged 48.
* January 20 – William Parish Chilton died, aged 60.
* February 4 – Daniel Breck died, aged 82.
* February 13 – John W. Stevenson left office as Governor of Kentucky.
* February 13 – Preston Leslie entered office as 26th Governor of Kentucky.
* March 4 – Thomas C. McCreery left office as US Senator from Kentucky.
* March 4 – Lawrence S. Trimble left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 1st District.
* March 4 – William N. Sweeney left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 2nd District.
* March 4 – J. Proctor Knott left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 4th District.
* March 4 – Thomas Laurens Jones left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 6th District.
* March 4 – John W. Stevenson entered office as US Senator from Kentucky.
* March 4 – Edward Crossland entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 1st District.
* March 4 – Henry D. McHenry entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 2nd District.
* March 4 – William B. Read entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 4th District.
* March 4 – William Evans Arthur entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 6th District.
* April 17 – Thomas Alexander Marshall died, aged 77.
* May 11 – Art Herman born.
* May 12 – Segregated street cars were integrated in Louisville.
* May 16 – Charles Stewart Todd died, aged 80.
* June 11 – Hugh McKee died, aged 27.
* July 6 – Evelyn Selbie born.
* July 15 – Dan McGann born.
* July 24 – Abby Scott Baker born.
* July 27 – Ollie Murray James born.
* July 28 – Jeremiah Boyle died, aged 53.
* August 21 – Andrew Trumbo died, aged 73.
* October 27 – Robert Anderson died, aged 66.
* November 1 – John H. McHenry died, aged 74.
* November 28 – Joseph Swagar Sherley born.
* December 7 – Charles C. Svendsen born.

## 1872

* February 18 – William Henry Davis born.
* March 6 – Ben Harney born.
* March 12 – Warner Underwood died, aged 63.
* March 28 – Humphrey Marshall died, aged 60.
* April 19 – Ella Broadus Robertson born.
* April 29 – The James Gang robbed a bank in Columbia of $1,500 with 1 person killed.
* May 10 – Harry Berte born.
* May 20 – Madeline McDowell Breckinridge born.
* September 9 – Henry Clay Dunlap died, aged 44.
* September 22 – Garrett Davis died, aged 71.
* September 22 – Garrett Davis left office as US Senator from Kentucky.
* September 27 – William Harrow died, aged 49.
* September 27 – Willis B. Machen entered office as US Senator from Kentucky.
* December 7 – Cale Young Rice born.

## 1873

* January 2 – John Marshall Robsion born.
* February 4 – Charles Franklin Ogden born.
* February 7 – John Kincaid died, aged 81.
* February 15 – Lewis Leavell Walker born.
* February 18 – Charles Mynn Thruston died, aged 74.
* March 4 – William Marshall Bullitt born.
* March 4 – Willis B. Machen left office as US Senator from Kentucky.
* March 4 – Henry D. McHenry left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 2nd District.
* March 4 – Joseph Horace Lewis left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 3rd District.
* March 4 – Boyd Winchester left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 5th District.
* March 4 – George Madison Adams left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 8th District.
* March 4 – John McConnell Rice left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 9th District.
* March 4 – Thomas C. McCreery entered office as US Senator from Kentucky.
* March 4 – John Y. Brown entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 2nd District.
* March 4 – Charles W. Milliken entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 3rd District.
* March 4 – Elisha Standiford entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 5th District.
* March 4 – Milton J. Durham entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 8th District.
* March 4 – George Madison Adams entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 9th District.
* March 4 – John Duncan Young entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 10th District.
* March 5 – Cary H. Fry died, aged 59.
* March 7 – Madame Sul-Te-Wan born.
* March 19 – Benjamin Logan, Jr. died, aged 84.
* August 1 – Edwin Otway Burnham died, aged 48.
* September 14 – Henry Eckert Youtsey born.
* September 15 – Caroline Miskel-Hoyt born.
* October 5 – Henry Daniel died, aged 87.
* November 27 – Richard Yates died, aged 58.
* November 29 – Herbert Wassell Nadal born.

## 1874

* January 7 – Marvel Mills Logan born.
* January 7 – John Burton Thompson died, aged 63.
* February 17 – Mary Eudy born.
* March 22 – Julian Van Winkle born.
* April 16 – John Thomas Croxton died, aged 37.
* May 1 – Robert Charles Wickliffe born.
* May 2 – Hallie Erminie Rives born.
* May 16 – George Robertson died, aged 83.
* June 20 – Arthur Blythe Rouse born.
* June 20 – John Watkins Crockett died, aged 56.
* June 27 – Anne Crawford Flexner born.
* July 14 – Jesse Tannehill born.
* July 25 – Edward Troye died, aged 66.
* October 3 – Charles Middleton born.
* November 18 – Riccardo Martin born.
* November 21 – Nettie Depp born.
* December 24 – Brent Spence born.
* December 25 – Barry McCormick born.
* December 29 – William Jason Fields born.

## 1875

* January 12 – Thomas E. Bramlette died, aged 58.
* January 22 – D. W. Griffith born.
* January 23 – Flemon Davis Sampson born.
* February 25 – Charles L. Ward died, aged ~37
* March 4 – Edward Crossland left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 1st District.
* March 4 – William B. Read left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 4th District.
* March 4 – Elisha Standiford left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 5th District.
* March 4 – William Evans Arthur left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 6th District.
* March 4 – James B. Beck left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 7th District.
* March 4 – George Madison Adams left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 9th District.
* March 4 – John Duncan Young left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 10th District.
* March 4 – Andrew Boone entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 1st District.
* March 4 – J. Proctor Knott entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 4th District.
* March 4 – Edward Y. Parsons 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 – Joseph C. S. Blackburn entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 7th District.
* March 4 – John D. White entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 9th District.
* March 4 – John B. Clarke entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 10th District.
* May 14 – Elizabeth Fouse born.
* May 17 – John C. Breckinridge died, aged 54.
* May 17 – Aristides won the 1st Kentucky Derby.
* May 19 – Vinaigrette won the 1st Kentucky Oaks.
* May 25 – Garnett Duncan died, aged 75.
* June 24 – Andrew Jackson May born.
* July 12 – Philip Lightfoot Lee died, aged 42.
* August 31 – Preston Leslie left office as Governor of Kentucky.
* August 31 – James B. McCreary entered office as 27th Governor of Kentucky.
* September 28 – Lewis Craig Humphrey born.
* November 7 – John F. Rowalt died, aged ~25.
* December 19 – Burley Bayer born.
* December 24 – Aaron Harding died, aged 70.

## 1876

* January 10 – Gordon Granger died, aged 54.
* March 3 – Kentucky Meat Shower incident in Bath County.
* April 18 – Eleanor Silliman Belknap Humphreys born.
* April 23 – Archibald Dixon died, aged 74.
* May 3 – Benjamin and Mollie French were lynched in Warsaw.
* May 15 – Vagrant won the 2nd Kentucky Derby.
* June 23 – Irvin S. Cobb born.
* July 8 – Edward Y. Parsons died, aged 33.
* July 8 – Edward Y. Parsons left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 5th District.
* August 4 – Huston Quin born.
* August 12 – Henry Watterson entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 5th District.
* August 18 – George Brown Martin born.
* August 23 – Joseph R. Underwood died, aged 84.
* September 16 – Marvin Hart born.
* October 14 – James Howard died, aged 62.
* October 22 – Harry Buckner born.
* November 1 – Sherrod Williams died, aged ~72.

## 1877

* January 12 – Margaret Vandercook born.
* January 22 – Charles Wickliffe Roark born.
* February 12 – James Leeper Johnson died, aged 58.
* February 20 – First cantilever bridge in US was completed in Harrodsburg.
* February 23 – Rudy Hulswitt born.
* March 1 – Jack McCall died, aged ~24.
* March 2 – Joel Tanner Hart died, aged 67.
* March 4 – Garrett Morgan born.
* March 4 – John W. Stevenson left office of US Senator from Kentucky.
* March 4 – John Y. Brown left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 2nd District.
* March 4 – Charles W. Milliken left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 3rd District.
* March 4 – Henry Watterson left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 5th District.
* March 4 – Thomas Laurens Jones left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 6th District.
* March 4 – John D. White left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 9th District.
* March 4 – James B. Beck entered office as US Senator from Kentucky.
* March 4 – James A. McKenzie entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 2nd District.
* March 4 – John W. Caldwell entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 3rd District.
* March 4 – Albert S. Willis entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 5th District.
* March 4 – John G. Carlisle entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 6th District.
* March 4 – Thomas Turner entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 9th District.
* March 18 – Edgar Cayce born.
* April 2 – Mordecai Ham born.
* April 9 – David Hayes Kincheloe born.
* April 26 – Zachariah Wheat died, aged 70.
* May 22 – Baden-Baden won the 3rd Kentucky Derby.
* May 25 – Richard Hawes died, aged 80.
* June 9 – John William Moore born.
* June 28 – Thomas Stivers died, aged 26.
* July 2 – Hayden Stevenson born.
* September 5 – Hermon P. Carpenter born.
* September 17 – James William Moore died, aged 59.
* October 21 – William Voris Gregory born.
* November 23 – Lawrence Chenault born.
* November 24 – Alben W. Barkley born.
* November 28 – Edwin P. Morrow born.
* December 8 – Franklin Goin died, aged 79.

## 1878

* May 1 – Rex De Rosselli born.
* May 21 – Day Star won the 4th Kentucky Derby.
* June 2 – Don S.S. Goodloe born.
* September 6 – Herbert Marcus born.
* October 11 – Brutus J. Clay died, aged 70.
* October 12 – William Thomas Ward died, aged 70.
* November 14 – George Remus born.

## 1879

* January 6 – Effie Waller Smith born.
* January 10 – Micajah Burnett died, aged 87.
* February 6 – Simon Julius Michelson born.
* February 26 – Joseph Watkins Morris born.
* March 4 – Thomas C. McCreery left office as US Senator from Kentucky.
* March 4 – Andrew Boone left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 1st District.
* March 4 – Milton J. Durham left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 8th District.
* March 4 – John B. Clarke left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 10th District.
* March 4 – John Stuart Williams entered office as a US Senator from Kentucky.
* March 4 – Oscar Turner entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 1st District.
* March 4 – Philip B. Thompson, Jr. entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 8th District.
* March 4 – Elijah Phister entered office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 10th District.
* March 26 – John Milton Elliott died, aged 58.
* March 29 – Joseph J. Bullock appointed Chaplain of the U.S. Senate.
* April 15 – Charles Neville Buck born.
* May 20 – Lord Murphy won the 5th Kentucky Derby.
* June 18 – Thais Lawton born.
* July 29 – Bland Ballard died, aged 59.
* August 30 – John Bell Hood died, aged 48.
* September 2 – James B. McCreary left office as Governor of Kentucky.
* September 2 – Luke P. Blackburn entered office as 28th Governor of Kentucky.
* September 14 – Harry Carter born.
* October 26 – Charles Dougherty born.
* December 1 – Simeon Willis born.
* December 8 – John Thoney born.
* December 10 – Jouett Shouse born.