when was thanksgiving

Thanksgiving in the United States is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November each year.

Key dates

• The 1621 harvest feast in Plymouth between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag is commonly remembered as the “first” Thanksgiving in what became the U.S.

• The first national Thanksgiving proclamation was issued by George Washington for November 26, 1789.

• Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving a recurring national holiday in 1863, setting it in late November.

• In 1941, the U.S. Congress fixed the date as the fourth Thursday in November, which is how it is observed today.

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