Falklands Day is the celebration of the first sighting of the

Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; ), commonly referred to as The Falklands, is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and from Cape Dub ...

by John Davis in 1592, and is celebrated on 14 August. It was once seen as the National Day of the Falklands, but has largely been replaced by

Liberation Day Liberation Day is a day, often a public holiday, that marks the liberation of a place, similar to an independence day, but differing from it because it does not involve the original creation of statehood. It commemorates the end of an occupation ...

which commemorates the end of the

Falklands War The Falklands War () was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British Overseas Territories, British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and Falkland Islands Dependenci ...

. Falkland Day ceased be to a public holiday in 2002 when the Executive Council moved the holiday to provide for the re-introduction of

Peat Cutting Day Peat Cutting Day is a public holiday in the Falkland Islands that is celebrated on the first Monday in October every year. Background Traditionally, Peat Cutting Day was the time of year when Falkland Islanders went out to cut cubes of surface-s ...

, on the first Monday in October.

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Annual events in the Falkland Islands August observances Culture of the Falkland Islands {{festival-stub