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Bank Holiday Día del Empleado Bancario: The supervisory body in charge of the banking sector in Guatemala (la Superintendencia de Bancos de Guatemala) announced that bank holidays would be observed in Guatemala every year. [5] August 15 Assumption Day: Día de la Asunción: Assumption of Mary into Heaven (only in Guatemala City) September 15
Días Patrios (Guatemala) Members of the Armed Forces raising the flag of Guatemala at the National Palace to commemorate the 202nd anniversary of Independence. The Días Patrios, or Patriotic Days, are national holidays celebrated in Guatemala commemorating its declaration of independence on 15 September 1821 with the former United Provinces ...
September 15 was chosen as the starting point for the commemoration because it is the anniversary of the Cry of Dolores (early morning, 16 September 1810), which marked the start of the Mexican War of Independence and thus resulted (in 1821) in independence for the New Spain Colony (now Mexico and the Central American nations of Guatemala, El ...
A painting by Chilean painter Luis Vergara Ahumada, depicting the signing of the Act by Father José Matías Delgado The representation of the signature of the act of independence on September 15, 1821 in Xetulul Park, in Guatemala. The Salvadoran priest Dr. José Matías Delgado y de León, last commissioner of the Holy Office in the Mayor's ...
2027. Decades: 2000s. 2010s. 2020s. See also: Other events of 2024. Timeline of Guatemalan history. The following lists events in the year 2024 in Guatemala.
4 Holidays and observances. 5 References. ... September 15 is the 258th day of the year ... 1821 – The Captaincy General of Guatemala declares independence from Spain.
From Veterans Day to Christmas, here are the dates of the 2024 federal holidays. New Year’s Day: Monday, January 1. Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Monday, January 15. Presidents’ Day ...
History of Guatemala. The history of Guatemala traces back to the Maya civilization (2600 BC – 1697 AD), with the country's modern history beginning with the Spanish conquest of Guatemala in 1524. By 1000 AD, most of the major Classic-era (250–900 AD) Maya cities in the Petén Basin, located in the northern lowlands, had been abandoned.