;USA-Arizona AZ
;State of Arizona
;capital: Phoenix
;Time zones: 
; - Most of State: Mountain: UTC-7/
; - Navajo Nation: Mountain: UTC-7/-6

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IMAGE=Holiday_US-Arizona.gif
COMMENT=Updated May 28, 2012 \nArizona does not observe daylight saving time except in the Navajo Indian Nation
;The summer of 1967 was the one year that DST was observed

TYP=Holy
01.1.+3Mo =Civil Rights Day* ;Note=3th Monday January, along with Martin Luther King Day {m}
01.5.+2Su =Mother's Day      ;Note=2nd Sunday May
01.6.+3Su =Father's Day      ;Note=3th Sunday June
01.8.+1Su>1977 =#1977th American Family Day* ;Note=1st Sunday August, 1st 1978 {m}
17.9.-1Su =Constitution Commemoration Day* ;Note=Sunday on/before September 17



TYP=Normal

;yearly days - observances

01.2.+2Mo =Lincoln Day*                ;Note=2nd Monday February {m}
02.2.+1Fr =Southern Arizona Arbor Day* ;Note=Friday after Feb. 1
14.2.     =Arizona Admission Day, proclaimed Flag Flying Day ;Note=1912 {d}
;01.3.+3Fr =Arizona Arbor Day*         ;Note=3th Friday March {m}
02.4.+1Fr =Northern Arizona Arbor Day* ;Note=Friday after Apr. 1
09.4.     =Prisoners of War Remembrance Day*
27.7.     =Korean War Veterans' Day*

;(remembrance) dates by year
;(New Spain 1521–1821, Mexico 1821-1846, Republic 1846-1848) territory contained all of present-day Arizona (Las Californias 1769/1804 Alta California)

20.8.  =Tucson founded #1775 years ago* ;Note=1775, Spanish established a presidio (fort) {d}
02.2.  =Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico gave up Arizona #1848 years ago* ;Note=1848 {d}
09.9.  =New Mexico Territory off. formed #1850 years ago* ;Note=1850, created from the Mexican Cession to the United States of 1848, included most of future Arizona {d}
30.12. =off. signing Gadsden Purchase Treaty #1853 years ago (southernmost strip New Mexico Territory)* ;Note=1853, approved June 29, 1854, southernmost strip of Arizona and New Mexico {d}
29.6.  =Gadsden Purchase Treaty off. approved by Congress #1854 years ago (southernmost strip New Mexico Territory)* ;Note=1854, signed Dec. 30, 1853, southernmost strip of Arizona and New Mexico {d}
16.3.  =Arizona Territory (Mesilla government) Secession ordinance #1861 years ago* ;Note=1861 {d}
14.2.  =Arizona Territory (Mesilla government) admitted C.S.A. #1862 years ago* ;Note=1862 {d}
24.2.  =Arizona Territory off. formed #1863 years ago ;Note=1863, previously part of New Mexico Territory {d}
26.10. =Gunfight at the O.K. Corral #1881 years ago* ;Note=1881 {d}
16.6.  =Arizona-New Mexico 1st Enabling Act #1906 years ago* ;Note=1906, Arizona & New Mexico reunited >Arizona, 2nd June 20, 1910 {d}
11.1.  =Grand Canyon National Monument est. #1908 years ago* ;Note=1908, 1893 >Grand Canyon Forest Reserve, June 16, 1906 >Grand Canyon Game Preserve, Feb. 26, 1919 >Grand Canyon National Park {d}
20.6.  =Arizona 2nd Enabling Act #1910 years ago* ;Note=1910, authorizing formation of a State government and Admission thereafter, 1st June 16, 1906 {d}
14.2.  =Arizona off. admitted to the Union #1912 years ago (48th state) ;Note=1912, Proclamation by President William Howard Taft {d}
17.2.  =Flag of Arizona adopted #1917 years ago* ;Note=1917 {d}
26.2.  =Grand Canyon National Park est. #1919 years ago* ;Note=1919, President Woodrow Wilson, 1893 >Grand Canyon Forest Reserve, June 16, 1906 >Grand Canyon Game Preserve, Jan. 11, 1908 >Grand Canyon National Monument {d}
20.11. =Tucson, 1st landing 1st Municipal Airport in the USA #1919 years ago* ;Note=1919 {d}
30.9.  =Boulder dam dedicated #1935 years ago (>Hoover Dam)* ;Note=1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt {d}


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;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_of_the_United_States
;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona
;State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols - ISBN 0-313-31534-5, page 156