Beginning of the Independence Movement in Venezuela
Beginning of the Independence Movement in Venezuela is held on April 19. This event in the second decade of the month April is annual. 
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Venezuela was a leader in Latin America's Independence movement. By 1800, people were talking openly about independence, albeit in secret. A group of Venezuelan Creoles boldly proclaimed their country an independent republic in 1797. Although their effort failed, it forewarned of the revolutionary movements that were soon to inflame Latin America. On April 19, 1810, the Caracas cabildo held an open session to assert its right to govern the captaincy general of Venezuela. A cabildo or ayuntamiento was a Spanish colonial, and early post-colonial, administrative council which governed a municipality. Cabildos were sometimes appointed, sometimes elected.
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Pan American Day on April 14 (El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras and Venezuela, USA);
Independence Declaration Day in Venezuela on April 19
Feast of the Virgin of Montserrat on April 27 (Spain [Catalonia], Argentina, Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador, Venezuela);
Mother’s Day on May 12 (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bonaire, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Dem. Rep., Congo, Rep., Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, Germany, Gabon, Gambia, Greenland, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Macau, Malaysia, Malta, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe);
World Internet Day on May 17
Optometrist Day in Venezuela on May 21
National Anthem Day in Venezuela on May 25