;USA-Florida FL ;State of Florida ;capital: Tallahassee ;Time zones: ; - peninsula: Eastern: UTC-5/DST-4 ; - panhandle: Central: UTC-6/DST-5 ;YOU NEED MovingOperation_LUX ;For a syntax description see PTBSync Help! ;If you find an error please contact: dewaelheyns(a)gmail.com LANGUAGE=UTF8 IMAGE=Holiday_US-Florida.gif COMMENT=Updated January 30, 2018 TYP=Holy ;Whenever any legal holiday shall fall upon a Sunday, the Monday next following shall be deemed a public holiday for all and any of the purposes aforesaid Es-2Dy =Good Friday* ;Note=Florida Statutes, 683.01 Legal holidays {d} 15.1.*LUX =Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.* ;Note=Florida Statutes, 683.01 Legal holidays {d} 19.1.*LUX =Robert E. Lee's Birthday ;Note=Florida Statutes, 683.01 Legal holidays {d} 12.2.*LUX =Lincoln's Birthday* ;Note=Florida Statutes, 683.01 Legal holidays {d} 15.2.*LUX =Susan B. Anthony's Birthday* ;Note=Florida Statutes, 683.01 Legal holidays {d} 02.4.*LUX =Pascua Florida Day ;Note=Apr. 2, 1513 landing Juan Ponce de León, Florida Statutes, 683.01 Legal holidays, Florida Statutes, 683.06 {d} 26.4.*LUX =Confederate Memorial Day* ;Note=1865, Florida Statutes, 683.01 Legal holidays {d} 03.6.*LUX =Jefferson Davis's Birthday* ;Note=1808, Florida Statutes, 683.01 Legal holidays {d} 14.6.*LUX =#1915th Flag Day* ;Note=1st 1916, Florida Statutes, 683.01 Legal holidays {d} 01.10.+2Mo =Columbus Day & Farmers' Day* ;Note=Florida Statutes, 683.01 Legal holidays {d} 01.11.%1980,2+1Mo+1Tu =Election Day (Federal, even years) ;Note=Tuesday after the 1st Monday November, all Representatives & 1/3 of the Senate, Florida Statutes, 683.01 Legal holidays {m} TYP=Local Es-7Tu =Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras ;Note=legal holiday in counties where carnival associations are organized for the purpose of celebrating the same, Florida Statutes, 683.01 Legal holidays {e} Es-2Dy =Good Friday (judicial circuit)* ;Note=Florida Statutes, 683.19 {e} {Jewish 01.1.} =Rosh Hashanah (1 Tishri #-3761 AM) (judicial circuit)* ;Note=Florida Statutes, 683.19 {j} {Jewish 09.1.} =Yom Kippur (10 Tischri #-3761 AM) (judicial circuit)* ;Note=Florida Statutes, 683.19 {j} TYP=Normal ;yearly days 01.1. =1st day Florida Jewish History Month* ;Note=month of January, Florida Statutes, 683.195 {d} 01.1.+3Fr =Florida Arbor Day* ;Note=3th Friday January, Florida Statutes, 683.04 {m} 06.1. =Three Kings Day* ;Note=Florida Statutes, 683.33 {d} 30.1.>2015 =#2015th Fred Korematsu Day* ;Note=1st 2016, 3/24/2015 Senate - Adopted -SJ 244 {n} 06.2. =Florida Alzheimer's Disease Day* ;Note=Florida Statutes, 683.24 {d} 06.2. =Ronald Reagan Day* ;Note=Florida Statutes, 683.26 {d} 01.3.+3Sa =Save the Florida Panther Day* ;Note=3th Saturday March, Florida Statutes, 683.18 {m} 03.3. =Florida Admission Day, proclaimed Flag Flying Day ;Note=1845 {d} 27.3. =1st day Pascua Florida Week (7d, >Apr. 2) ;Note=1513, Mar. 27 Juan Ponce de León sights Florida, Apr. 2 lands in Florida, Florida Statutes, 683.06 {d} 01.4.+1Su =Parents' and Children's Day* ;Note=1st Sunday April, Florida Statutes, 683.17 {m} 01.4.+2Tu =Children's Day* ;Note=2nd Tuesday April 14.4. =Pan-American Day* ;Note=Florida Statutes, 683.05 {d} 19.4. =Patriots' Day* ;Note=Florida Statutes, 683.14 {d} 23.4.>1981 =Key West, Conch Republic Independence Celebration* ;Note=1982 {d} 01.5. =1st day Law Enforcement Appreciation Month* ;Note=month of May, Florida Statutes, 683.11 {d} 01.5.-1Su =1st day Law Week* ;Note=Sunday on or before May 1, Florida Statutes, 683.22 {d-05-01} 01.5.+2Mo>2007 =2007th Child Welfare Professionals Recognition Day* ;Note=2nd Monday May, 1st 2008, Florida Statutes, 683.331 {m} 01.5.+3Fr =Teacher's Day* ;Note=3th Friday May, Florida Statutes, 683.15 {m} 15.5. =Law Enforcement Memorial Day* ;Note=Florida Statutes, 683.115 {d} 20.5. =Emancipation Day ;Note=unofficial commemoration, 1865 1st reading Emancipation Proclamation in Florida {d} 19.6. =Juneteenth* 01.9.+2Mo =Florida Missing Children's Day* ;Note=2nd Monday September, Florida Statutes, 683.23 {m} 01.10.+2Su =Grandmother's Day* ;Note=2nd Sunday october, Florida Statutes, 683.10 {m} 01.10.+3Su =I Am An American Day* ;Note=3th Sunday October, Florida Statutes, 683.145 {m} 01.11.+3Su =Retired Teachers' Day* ;Note=3th Sunday November, Florida Statutes, 683.16 {m} 21.12. =Homeless Persons' Memorial Day* ;Note=Florida Statutes, 683.325 {d} ;(remembrance) dates by year 02.4. =Juan Ponce de León landed & claimed 'La Florida' for Spain #1513 years ago ;Note=1513 {d} 30.5. =Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto lands in Florida #1539 years ago* ;Note=1539, Tampa Bay {d} 03.6. =Hernando de Soto claims 'La Florida' for the King of Spain #1539 years ago ;Note=1539, already done by Juan Ponce de León on April 2, 1513 {d} 22.6. =Fort Caroline, 1st French colony #1564 years ago (1822 >Jacksonville)* ;Note=1564, René Goulaine de Laudonnière, captured by Spain (Sept. 20, 1565, >fort San Matteo) {d} 08.9. =St. Augustine founded #1565 years ago (longest continuously occupied European settlement in the US)* ;Note=1565, Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés {d} 08.9. =St. Augustine, 1st recorded Thanksgiving ceremony #1565 years ago* ;Note=1565, Spanish explorers celebrated a feast of thanksgiving {d} 22.2. =Washington DC, Spain sold Florida to the US #1819 years ago (Adams-Onís Treaty)* ;Note=1819, proclamation Feb. 22, 1821 {d} 22.2. =proclamation treaty Florida sold to US #1821 years ago (by Spain)* ;Note=1821, treaty Feb. 22, 1819 {d} 10.7. =St. Augustine, East-Florida surrendered Spain >US #1821 years ago* ;Note=1821, Adams-Onis Treaty (Feb. 22, 1821), West-Florida July 17, 1831 {d} 17.7. =Pensacola, West-Florida formally ceded Spain >US #1821 years ago* ;Note=1821, Adams-Onis Treaty (Feb. 22, 1821), East-Florida July 10, 1831 {d} 30.3. =Florida Territory off. formed #1822 years ago* ;Note=1822, originally formally annexed by the United States, East Florida & part of West Florida merged {d} 03.3. =Florida off. admitted to the Union #1845 years ago (27th state) ;Note=1845, Enabling Act also served as Act of Admission {d} 10.1. =Florida Secession ordinance #1861 years ago* ;Note=1861 {d} 08.2. =Florida co-founded Confederate States of America (CSA) #1861 years ago* ;Note=1861 {d} 28.12. =Florida ratifies 13th Amendment #1865 years ago (abolishing slavery)* ;Note=1865, 30th state, reaffirmed June 9, 1869 {d} 02.3. =Third Military District formed #1867 years ago (Reconstruction Act)* ;Note=1867, Georgia, Alabama & Florida {d} 25.6. =Florida readmitted to the Union #1868 years ago* ;Note=1868 {d} 09.6. =Florida reaffirmed ratification 13th Amendment #1869 years ago (abolishing slavery)* ;Note=1869, ratified Dec. 28, 1865 {d} 03.10. =Florida, State Normal College for Colored Students founded #1887 years ago (1953 >Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University)* ;Note=1887 {d} 28.7. =Miami off. incorporated as a city #1896 years ago* ;Note=1896 {d} 22.1. =Florida Overseas Railroad (Miami<>Key West) opened #1912 years ago* ;Note=1912, >Sept. 2, 1935 {d} 23.6. =St. Augustine-Marine Studios, open. 1st oceanarium (worldwide) #1938 years ago* ;Note=1938, >Marineland of Florida {d} ;01.6.1948, Florida, Banana River Naval Air Station, United States Navy >United States Air Force ;10.6.1949, Florida, Banana River Naval Air Station >Joint Long Range Proving Ground (JLRPG) Base ;01.10.1949, Florida, Joint Long Range Proving Ground Base, Air Materiel Command >Air Force Division of the Joint Long Range Proving Ground ;Cape Canaveral from 1949 to 1963 and from 1973 to the present ;17.5.1950, Florida, Joint Long Range Proving Ground Base >Long Range Proving Ground Base ;.8.1950, Florida, Joint Long Range Proving Ground Base >Patrick Air Force Base ;29.11.1963, Florida, Station No. 1 of the Atlantic Missile Range >John F. Kennedy Space Center, Cape Kennedy Air Force Station 01.10. =Orlando, opening Walt Disney World #1971 years ago ;Note=1971 {d} ;1973, Florida, Cape Kennedy Air Force Station >Cape Canaveral Air Force Station 06.12. =Florida Technological University >University of Central Florida #1978 years ago* ;Note=1978, founded 1963 {d} 23.4. =Key West, Conch Republic declared its 'independence' #1982 years ago* ;Note=1982, city of Key West {d} ;The entries for Florida were added by: dewaelheyns(a)gmail.com - http://users.telenet.be/wdew/ ;The abbreviations {d} {m} {e} {y} ... are explained on http://users.telenet.be/wdew/Basis%20PTB/BasisEN.htm ;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_of_the_United_States ;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida ;http://www.city-data.com/states/Florida.html ;http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=Ch0683/titl0683.htm&StatuteYear=2008&Title=-%3E2008-%3EChapter%20683 ;State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols - ISBN 0-313-31534-5, page 160-161