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1780
- March 20 – Thomas Metcalfe born.
- March 24 – Christopher Tompkins born.
- May 1 – John McKinley born.
- June 21 – Martin Davis Hardin born.
- October 6 – John Chambers born.
- October 17 – Richard Mentor Johnson born.
1781
- July 15 – Elisha I. Winter born.
1782
- March 24 – William Owsley born.
- June 4 – Leonard Helm died, aged ~62.
- August 19 – The Battle of Blue Licks was the last major conflict of the American Revolutionary War.
1783
- April 10 – John Floyd died, aged ~33
1784
- February 5 – William T. Barry born.
- February 18 – Robert B. McAfee born.
- February 29 – Benjamin Hardin born.
- May 4 – Colonel Johannes Bowman died, aged 45.
- June 13 – Isaac McCoy born.
- July 13 – Edward Mann Butler born.
- July 22 – Stephen Chipley born.
- November 24 – Zachary Taylor born.
1785
- April 12 – Dr. Benjamin Winslow Dudley born.
- May 14 – Micah Taul born.
1786
- March 15 – Henry Daniel born.
- April 3 – Elizabeth Hardin born.
- April 6 – Chilton Allan born.
- April 9 – William Christian died, aged ~43.
- August 22 – Solomon P. Sharp born.
- September 9 – John Breathitt born.
1787
- February 22 – Chittenden Lyon born.
- May 7 – Thomas Buck Reed born.
- September 10 – John J. Crittenden born.
1788
- February 10 – Robert P. Letcher born.
- February 12 – Daniel Breck born.
- April 22 – Matthew Harris Jouett born.
- June 8 – Charles A. Wickliffe born.
- July 14 – Cabell Breckinridge born.
- August 4 – Richard Clough Anderson, Jr. born.
- September 15 – Nathan Gaither born.
- September 21 – Margaret Taylor born.
- October 5 – John Telemachus Johnson born.
- November 17 – Robert L. McHatton born.
- November 24 – Robert Pryor Henry born.
1789
- January 3 – Benjamin Logan, Jr. born.
- July 17 – The Chenoweth Massacre took place.
- July 18 – Thomas Carlin born.
- August 5 – Thomas Barlow born.
- August 20 – Philip Thompson born.
- October 1 – The Wiley Family kidnapped by Indians
- November 8 – Elijah Craig first distilled bourbon from corn in Bourbon County.
- December 16 – John Logan born.
