President’s Day in the U.S.

Every third Monday in February, the United States of America celebrates President’s Day. This is due to the historical traditions of the struggle for the independence of the American states and the name of the country’s first president, George Washington, who turns 270 on February 22.

The first shot in the War for the Independence of the American States was fired on April 19, 1775, in a battle near Lexington, Massachusetts, between American militia and regular British troops. On June 15 of the same year, the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia proclaimed the creation of the Continental Army and appointed George Washington as its commander. At the time, General Washington, a descendant of a wealthy Virginia plantation family, was forty-three years old.

He had previously gained military experience as a commander of the American frontier militia in battles with the Indians and the French. From the very beginning of the War of Independence, George Washington was firmly convinced of ultimate success in the fight against the British forces. After Lexington, the next success of the American Continental Army under George Washington’s command was the capture of Boston in 1776. And on July 4, 1776, the independence of thirteen American states was proclaimed in a congressional document in Philadelphia. The author of this historic act was Washington’s associate Thomas Jefferson. And on April 6, 1789, George Washington was elected the first President of the United States of America by the electors of the independent American states. Shortly before, on February 22, he turned 47 years old. On April 30 of the same year, Washington was sworn in on the Bible as the first president on the balcony of the Federal Building in New York.

Experts believe that Washington is credited with creating the democratic legal framework of the United States and forming effective governmental structures that successfully manage the country’s finances, economy and politics to this day.

George Washington served two terms as president from 1789 to 1797. He did not want to run for a third term. The first American president died on December 14, 1799, leaving to his descendants the right to independence he won in battle and the powerful state mechanism called the United States of America created with his active participation.