The Flag Day is celebrated every year in Argentina on June 20. That date is a national holiday and public holiday dedicated to the flag of Argentina and the commemoration of its creator, Manuel Belgrano, who died on that day in 1820. The date was declared by law 12,361 of 8 June 1938, with congressional approval, by the then President of Argentina, Roberto M. Ortiz.1 2 From 2011, by national decree, the holiday is set in stone. The flag was created on February 27, 1812, during the struggle for Independence of the United Provinces of Río de la Plata. The main venue for the celebrations of Flag Day is the National Monument to the Flag in Rosario, Santa Fe, a place where the flag was hoisted for the first time in two artillery batteries located on opposite sides of the Paraná river. The celebration consists of a public meeting and celebrate every year the President including members of armed forces, veterans of the Falklands War, the police, and a number of civic organizations and associations.
The Flag Day: Until the Manuel Belgrano first made the national flag at the Villa del Rosario, 27 February 1812, both as realistic patriot armies used the colors of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, the is represented in white with a blue mantle, representing the sky is the color of the sky. The Virgin was the patroness of the Consulate, where Belgrano was his ultimate authority. And it is believed that this institution had as its motto a blue and white flag. The Spanish King Carlos III, creator of the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata, founded an Order that identified with the colors blue and white, with the same provision of the current flag of Argentina, two stripes on the sides sky and the white in the center . The general thought was needed to differentiate one side from another, and encourage the troops with its own symbol. It is believed that the adoption of blue and white was also due to imitation of the rosette, created on February 18, 1812. The blue and white was soon to be adopted by the locals. Juan Martin de Avellaneda and his men and had ribbons of that color during the British invasions. They had been taken from the Sanctuary of the Virgin of Luján. Belgrano, to decide on those colors, did nothing but respect an old folk tradition. The colors of the badge, then the flag would have another history: that identified were members of the Patriotic Society (political and literary group of civilians and soldiers identified with the ideas of Mariano Moreno). As members were displaced by the Board in 1811, went into opposition. And the First Triumvirate chosen for the blue and white badge with a different provision of that Society. The latter available as follows: blue, white, blue. The first badge, presumably, was white, blue and white. About Macha, Bolivia, were found two flags were supposed Belgrano led to Upper Peru during its military campaign. One has a blue center stripe, and the other white. The Northern army swore allegiance to the Assembly of Year XIII with a white and blue flag. And this shows just been hoisted on the mast of the Fort in 1815. Until then, there flew the Spanish flag. The Congress of Tucuman in 1816, adopted the flag blue, white and blue as a national symbol that identified a new nation. The presence of the sun in the center of the flag adopted by Congress, meeting in Buenos Aires in 1818. This sun is the same that appeared on the first coin minted by the National Assembly of Year XIII and 32 rays flamboyant looks. The flag with the sun is the "largest flag" of the nation, and can only wear it public buildings and the Army. Individuals exposed the flag without the sun in the center
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