John Cave is Sheriff.

• The Burlington Turnpike is established from Porter's Ferry on the Ohio River opposite Lawrenceburg, to a point on the Covington-Lexington Turnpike towards the direction of Georgetown.
• An 1836 act of the General Assembly stated: “The trustees of Burlington shall have the power to cause the side walks or streets of said town to be paved, etc”.

• The legislature establishes a common school system, creating districts within each county.
• The Kentucky Rifles fight for Texan independence at the Battle of San Jacinto.
• The Kentucky Geological Survey is formed.

• Mexican President Santa Anna sends an army to the Alamo, eventually overwhelming and killing the fort's defenders.
• Texas settlers declare independence from Mexico. They defeat Mexican troops at the Battle of San Jacinto and pass a constitution legalizing slavery in the new republic.
• Southern members of Congress get a majority in the House to pass a gag rule effectively prohibiting all discussion of anti-slavery petitions. The rule remains in effect till the mid-1840s.
• The transcendentalist movement develops in the U.S. as Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes his essay, Nature.

• Boone County Tax Lists, 1836.