# Foundation Day

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**Foundation Day** is a designated date on which celebrations mark the founding of a nation, state or a creation of a military unit. This day is for countries that came into existence without the *necessity* of gaining independence. The term overlaps with [national days](/source/National_day).

## Background

Older countries that use some other event of special significance as their national day. This signals the use of a "class" of National Days, that are equally important in the foundation of the nation, and a "class" of less important official public holidays. This holiday can be symbolised by the date of becoming republic or a significant date for a patron saint or a ruler (birthday, accession, removal, etc.) as the starting point of the nation's history. Often the day is not called "Foundation Day" but serves and can be considered as one.[citation needed]

## Examples

### Asia

- [Double Ten Day](/source/Double_Ten_Day): outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising China and founding of the Republic of China (1911)[1]
- [Gaecheonjeol](/source/Gaecheonjeol): (English- National Foundation Day) public holiday in South Korea Also, celebrating the creation of Modern-day Korea in the year 2333 BCE
- [Hong Kong Foundation Day](/source/Hong_Kong_Foundation_Day) on 26 January, the anniversary of the founding of Hong Kong as a British colony (until 1997)
- [National Foundation Day](/source/National_Foundation_Day_(Japan)), national holiday in Japan, celebrating the founding of the nation and the imperial line by its first emperor[2]
- [Republic Day](/source/Republic_Day) in India: becoming the first republic in the British Commonwealth of Nations, 1950
- [Saudi National Day](/source/Saudi_National_Day): the end of the 30-year campaign to unite the central Arabian lands to found the modern state, 1932
- [Day of the Foundation of the Republic (North Korea)](/source/Day_of_the_Foundation_of_the_Republic_(North_Korea)): commemorates the foundation of the [DPRK](/source/DPRK) in 1948

### Australasia

- Foundation Day, one of the precursors of [Australia Day](/source/Australia_Day), celebrating the day the [First Fleet](/source/First_Fleet) landed at [Sydney](/source/Sydney) 1788[3] (also used separately to mark the foundation of two states)
- [Norfolk Island Foundation Day](/source/Norfolk_Island_Foundation_Day) on [Norfolk Island](/source/Norfolk_Island) on March 6, commemorating the First Fleet settlement under Philip Gidley King in 1788
- [Western Australia Day](/source/Western_Australia_Day), a public holiday in Western Australia held on the first Monday in June, formerly known as Foundation Day

### Europe

- [German Unity Day](/source/German_Unity_Day): unification of West Germany and East Germany and the foundation of the modern German state, 1990
- [Statehood Day (Lithuania)](/source/Statehood_Day_(Lithuania)): commemorates coronation of the first king, Mindaugas
- [Swiss National Day](/source/Swiss_National_Day): alliance of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden against the Holy Roman Empire and the foundation of the Swiss state, 1291

## See also

- [National day](/source/National_day)

## References

1. Cindy Sui, 10 October 2011, ["Legacy debate as Republic of China marks 100 years"](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15218596), BBC News

1. [Hardacre, Helen. (1989). *Shinto and the State, 1868-1988,*](https://books.google.com/books?id=nP7vr5yaaZIC&pg=PA101&dq=Kigensetsu&lr=&sig=sFgQJWOesfqN4difOcwaXbKIGQY#PPA101,M1) pp. 101-102.

1. ["Australia Day - A History"](http://www.australiaday.vic.gov.au/history.asp). Victoria State Government. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20080719021903/http://www.australiaday.vic.gov.au/history.asp) 19 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 26 January 2009.

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