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Events in June 1792 1
1792Kentucky Admitted as the 15th US StateFirst state created from frontier territoryKentucky entered the Union on 1 June 1792, becoming the fifteenth US state and the first carved out of the trans-Appalachian frontier. It had previously been part of Virginia. Its admission reflected the rapid westward settlement of the early United States.