Statehood Day (Serbia)

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National Day
Flag of the First Serbian Uprising
Official name	Statehood of Serbia
Also called	Sretenje
Observed by	Serbia
Date	February 15
Next time	February 15, 2023 (2023-02)
Frequency	annual

Statehood Day or National Day (Serbian Cyrillic: Дан државности, romanized: Dan državnosti) is a holiday celebrated every February 15 in Serbia to commemorate the outbreak of the First Serbian Uprising in 1804, which evolved into the Serbian Revolution against Ottoman rule. The revolution ultimately resulted in the recognition of Serbia's National by the Ottoman Empire (formally in 1817, de jure in 1835).

On the same day in 1835, during the rule of Miloš Obrenović, the first modern Serbian constitution was adopted in Kragujevac, known as the Sretenje Constitution or ‘Candlemas Constitution’.

National Day is a public national holiday, and official celebrations last for two days, every 15 February.

Interesting facts[]

Google Doodles commemorated Serbian National Day in 2012,^[1] 2013,^[2] 2014,^[3] 2015,^[4] 2016,^[5] 2017,^[6] 2018,^[7] 2019,^[8] and 2020, as well as Facebook in 2016.^[5]

See also[]

• Statehood Day (disambiguation) in other countries
• List of national independence days
• Public holidays in Serbia
• Sretenje

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