Feliz dia de reyes holiday: Holidays observed all around Mexico. Festivities: These are traditional holidays to honor religious events, such as Carnival, Holy Week, Easter, etc. Dia de la Independence or Anniversario de la Independence, September 16, commemorates Mexico’s independence from Spain and is the most important patriotic statutory holiday.

Parades are held and many schools are closed. Most workers, public and private, are entitled to take the day off with regular pay. Saturday, Friday will be considered a statutory holiday. Established in 1923, Labor Day commemorates the Mexican workers’ union movements. Commemorates the start of the Independence War by Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in 1810. Festivities begin the evening of September 15 and culminate with a military parade on September 16.

In addition to these dates, election days designated by federal and local electoral laws are also statutory holidays. Celebrates the current Flag of Mexico and honors the previous ones. Flag Day was implemented by President Lázaro Cárdenas in 1937. Celebrates the Oil Expropriation by President General Lázaro Cárdenas in 1938. Commemorates the defense against the United States occupation of Veracruz in 1914 by cadets, staff and faculty of the Heroica Escuela Naval Militar and personnel of the Mexican Navy. Celebrates the victory of the Mexican Army, led by Gral. Ignacio Zaragoza against French forces in the city of Puebla, on May 5, 1862.

Also widely celebrated in the United States. Commemorates the birth in 1753 of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, the initiator of the Mexican Independence War. Honors the merchant marines, which began on June 1, 1917 with the Tabasco. The holiday was first celebrated in 1942 to honor the crews of the Potrero del Llano and Faja de Oro, whose ships were sunk by Nazi submarines in May 1942. American War of 1847 and the heroic and ultimate sacrifice that the Niños Héroes gave for the nation. Celebrates the Grito de Dolores, an event that marked the start of the independence war against Spain on the eve of September 16, 1810.

It took place at a church chapel in Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, led by a Creole Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla. Celebrates the end of the Mexican Independence War in 1821, 11 years after Father Hidalgo started it, with the victory of the Army of the Three Guarantees, led by Agustín de Iturbide and Vicente Guerrero. Commemorates the birth in 1765 of Father José María Morelos y Pavón, one of the founding fathers of the Mexican nation. Commemorates the creation of a new, brown race of mixed American, European, and African ancestry following the European colonization of the Americas that began in 1492.

Celebrates the Biblical New Testament story of the arrival of the three wise men who each brought a gift to the Christ child. Traditionally, children receive toys, and people buy a pastry called rosca de reyes. It is not a state holiday. Celebrates the presentation of the baby Jesus in the Temple of Jerusalem 40 days after his birth. Jesus in new clothes to be blessed by the parish priest. On this day, traditionally, people give chocolates, flowers, letters and gifts to their friends, relatives and couples. Commemorates the Last Supper of Christ.

Honors all the mothers throughout the country. Honors all the teachers throughout the country. It is often celebrated on the Monday before May 15. Honors all the students throughout the country. Honors all the fathers throughout the country.