Lexington Timeline

1775 Apr 19 Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachuse...
1821 Davis Attends Transylvania University
Davis went on to Jefferson College at Washington, Mississippi, in 1818, and to Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky, in 1821. In 1824, Davis entered the United States Military A...
1861 Sep 13
to 1861 Sep 20
 First Battle of Lexington - Missouri State Guard Takes Stronghold of Missouri Valley
The First Battle of Lexington also known as the Battle of the Hemp Bales, was an engagement of the American Civil War, occurring from September 13 to September 20, 1861, between the Union...
1865 Aug Lee Accepts Position as President of Washington College
After the American Civil War, General Robert E. Lee turned down several financially tantalizing offers of employment that would merely have traded on his name, and instead accepted the po...
1870 Oct 12 Death of Robert E. Lee
On September 28, 1870, Lee suffered a stroke that left him without the ability to speak. Lee died from the effects of pneumonia shortly after 9 a.m. on October 12, 1870, in Lexington, Vir...
2009 Sep 4 Gluck Equine Research Center Investigates Paraplasmosis for the World Equestrian Games
Lexington, KY - Most people don't realize how close Kentucky came to having the life sucked out of its bid for the WEG by a small tick. Dr. Peter Timoney does. As the head of the Univ...
2009 Sep 25 Spotlight Lexington
Lexington will host a free 17 day festival in the heart of downtown in conjunction with the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. The festival “Spotlight Lexington” will include various typ...