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On Oct. 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving. He saw the occasion as a peaceful interlude amid the Civil War.
The first proclamation on the way to becoming the United States was issued by John Hancock as President of the Continental Congress as a day of fasting on March 16, 1776. [12] The first national Thanksgiving was celebrated on December 18, 1777, and the Continental Congress issued National Thanksgiving Day proclamations each year between 1778 ...
George Washington became the first president to proclaim a Thanksgiving holiday in 1789. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln codified the last Thursday of November as Thanksgiving, to be commemorated each year. In keeping with tradition, every President had declared a general day of thanksgiving to be observed on the last Thursday in November.
At the height of the Civil War, Lincoln issued a proclamation to urge Americans to celebrate their blessings. Thanksgiving has been a tradition since. 'The blessing of fruitful fields and ...
Print/export Download as PDF ... Thanksgiving is an annual tradition that was federally formalized through an 1863 presidential proclamation by Abraham Lincoln ...
Thanksgiving as we know it took many years to develop, evolving from a very occasional celebration into a noted event in 1863 with President Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving proclamation. Lincoln ...
Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln, October 3, 1863. [50] [53] Lincoln issued another proclamation of thanksgiving in October 1864, again for the last Thursday in November, after Union victories that included the fall of Atlanta and the capture of Mobile Bay. [54]
While the story of the first Thanksgiving was recorded in 1621, the holiday did not become an annual American tradition until the time of President Abraham Lincoln.