National Flag Day in Colombia
National Flag Day in Colombia is held on August 7. This event in the first decade of the month August is annual. 
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This date is a national holiday dedicated to the Colombian flag and to the commemoration of the Battle of Boyacá, the most important confrontation of Colombia's war of independence. The date was decreed by law 28 of February 16, 1925, with the approval of the Congress, by the then president of Colombia, Pedro Nel Ospina.
The origin of the current National Flag of Colombia is located in 1806, specifically on March 12, when the Precursor Francisco Miranda waved for the first time the yellow, blue and red tricolor aboard his sailing ship, or brigantine, Leandro, during his failed invasion of Coro (town of Venezuela). This flag was the same one that Miranda together with Lino de Clemente and José Sata y Bussy, presented to the Venezuelan Congress of 1811 to be adopted as the national insignia.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
Foundations in Bogota, Tunja and El Carmen de Bolivar in Colombia on August 6
Battle of Boyacá Day in Colombia on August 7
Army Day in Colombia on August 7
Antioquia Independence Day in Colombia on August 11
Comedians Day in Colombia on August 13 (Día del Humorista);
International Armadillo Day on August 13
National Ecological and Environmental Organizations Day in Colombia on August 13