List of Foundation Days
- National Foundation Day, national holiday in Japan, celebrating the founding of the nation and the imperial line by its first emperor.
- Gaecheonjeol: (English- National Foundation Day) public holiday in South Korea Also, celebrating the creation of Modern-day Korea in the year 2333 BCE.
- Australia Day: date of the founding of Sydney, the first European settlement in Australia, 1788.
- Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld takes the oath as first king of the Belgians in 1831.
- Ugyen Wangchuck elected hereditary king 1907.
- Double Ten Day: outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising China and founding of the Republic of China (1911).
- Proclamation of People's Republic of China, 1949
- German Unity Day: unification of West Germany and East Germany and the foundation of the modern German state, 1990.
- St. Stephen's day: foundation of Hungary as recognized, 1000.
- Republic Day in India: becoming the first republic in the British Commonwealth of Nations, 1950.
- Unifiication of North and South Yemen and the founding of the Republic of Yemen, 1990.
- Statehood Day (Lithuania): commemorates coronation of the first king, Mindaugas.
- Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden leading to its modern foundation, 1523.
- Swiss National Day: alliance of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden against the Holy Roman Empire and the foundation of the Swiss sate, 1291.
- Serbia National Day: founding of the modern Serbian state through the revolution and first Constitution.
- Saudi National Day: the end of the 30 year campaign to unite the central Arabian lands to found the modern state, 1932
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