;USA-Colorado CO
;State of Colorado
;capital: Denver
;Time zone: Mountain: UTC-7/DST-6

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IMAGE=Holiday_US-Colorado.gif
COMMENT=Updated May 28, 2012

TYP=Holy
01.8.+1Mo>1966<1987 =Colorado Day observed ;Note=1st Monday August, in 1986 as free day replaced by Martin Luther King day {d-08-01}

TYP=Local
31.3.>2002 =#2002th César Chávez's Day ;Note=1st 2003, optionally observed in Colorado



TYP=Normal

;yearly days - observances

15.2.  =Susan B. Anthony Day*
01.4.+3Fr =Arbor Day*      ;Note=3rd Friday April {m}
01.5.+2Fr =Good Roads Day* ;Note=2nd Friday May
01.8.  =Colorado Admission Day, proclaimed Flag Flying Day ;Note=1876 {d}
01.8.+1Mo>1986 =Colorado Day observed (free day 1967>1986) ;Note=1st Monday August, in 1986 as free day replaced by Martin Luther King day {d-08-01}
09.10. =Leif Erikson Day*
;?11.12.>2001 =#2001h Governor Ralph Carr Day* ;Note=1st 2002, declaration Jan. 22.2002

;events
;01.1.+2Sa>1996 =#1996th Lafayette Quaker Oatmeal Festival* ;Note=1st 1997, 2nd Saturday January {m}


;(remembrance) dates by year
;(New Spain 1521–1821, Mexico 1821-1846, Republic 1846-1848) territory contained present-day western Colorado (Las Californias 1769/1804 Alta California)
;(French 1682–1762 & 1802–1804, Spanish 1762-1802) Louisiana territory contained portions of present-day Colorado east of the Continental Divide

09.4.  =La Louisiane claimed for France #1682 years ago* ;Note=1682, René-Robert Cavelier Sieur de la Salle, administrative district of New France {d}
02.2.  =Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico gave up western Colorado #1848 years ago* ;Note=1848 {d}
30.5.  =Kansas Territory off. formed #1854 years ago* ;Note=1854, Kansas-Nebraska Act, previously part of the unorganized so-called 'Indian country' of old Missouri Territory, included much of eastern region of Colorado {d}
24.10. =Territory of Jefferson created #1859 years ago* ;Note=1859, >Feb. 28, 1861 >Territory of Colorado {d}
28.2.  =Colorado Territory off. formed #1861 years ago ;Note=1861, carved from portions of Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico & Utah Territories {d}
21.3.  =Colorado 1st Enabling Act #1864 years ago* ;Note=1864, authorizing formation of a State government, 2nd March 3, 1875 {d}
15.5.  =Colorado Act of Admission 1st vetoed #1866 years ago* ;Note=1866, President Andrew Johnson, 2nd veto Jan. 28, 1867 {d}
28.1.  =Colorado Act of Admission 2nd vetoed #1867 years ago* ;Note=1867, President Andrew Johnson, 1st veto May 15, 1866 {d}
03.3.  =Colorado 2nd Enabling Act #1875 years ago* ;Note=1875, authorizing formation of a State government and Admission thereafter, 1st March 21, 1864 {d}
01.8.  =Colorado off. admitted to the Union #1876 years ago (38th state) ;Note=1876, Proclamation by President Ulysses S. Grant {d}
06.11. =1st Seal of Colorado adopted #1876 years ago* ;Note=1876 {d}
15.3.  =adoption of 1st Seal of Colorado approved #1877 years ago* ;Note=1877, adopted Nov. 6, 1876 {d}
07.11. =Colorado women were granted the right to vote #1893 years ago ;Note=1893 {d}
05.6.  =Flag of Colorado adopted #1911 years ago* ;Note=1911 {d}


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;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_of_the_United_States
;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado
;State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols - ISBN 0-313-31534-5, page 158