Malvinas Day

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Malvinas Day (Spanish: Día de Malvinas), officially Day of the War Veterans and the Fallen in the Malvinas Islands (Día del Veterano de Guerra y los Caídos en las Islas Malvinas) is a public holiday in Argentina, celebrated each year on or near 2 April. The Malvinas Islands are known in the English-speaking world by their British name, the Falklands.

The holiday is a tribute to Argentina's fallen soldiers in the Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas), which began with the Argentine occupation of the Islands on 2 April 1982.

Malvinas Day was first introduced in 2001 and replaced the 10 June "Sovereignty over Malvinas Islands" Day, which had until then commemorated the appointment of Luis Vernet as governor of the Islands by Buenos Aires in 1832.

This holiday is not observed in either the Falklands or the United Kingdom. In the Falklands, 'Liberation Day' is 14 June.