Columbus Day 2025 History And Facts

Columbus Day 2025 History And Facts. The holiday celebrates christopher columbus' arrival. Though columbus discovered the americas in 1492, the earliest documentation of any unofficial celebration of columbus day wasn’t until 1792.

Columbus day is a national holiday in the that commemorates the landing of in the americas on october 12, 1492. Roosevelt in 1934 to commemorate the 1492 landing of explorer christopher columbus to the new world.