Feast day first celebrated in Ireland: 9th/10th century
Holy Day of obligation (Ireland): early 1600s
Public Holiday in Ireland: 1903
First US St. Patrick's Day parade: 18 March 1737 (Boston) OR 17 March 1762 (New York). As usual, each city denies the other's claim to primacy.
First Parade in Ireland: 1931
The first held in New York was on March 17, 1762.
St Patrick's Day became a public holiday in 1903.
1903
March 17th
St. Patrick's Day is not a federally recognized holiday in the United States. However it became a national holiday in Ireland in 1909.
in the year of Louis BOOBEARR
March 17 in Britain on the day he died.
It became a national holiday in 1870 (June 26th)
== == Christmas was declared a national holiday by Ulysses S. Grant in 1870. It's Jesus' Birthday it has to be a holiday.
1891
Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the day a national holiday in 1863
France
1903
July 4th
It was an act of Congress.
November 11, 1918