Saint Helena Day, celebrates the discovery of Saint Helena in 1502.
Saint Helena Day, celebrates the discovery of Saint Helena in 1502. is held on May 21. Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. This event in the third decade of the month May is annual. 
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The island of St Helena in the South Atlantic was discovered by the Portuguese navigator João de Nova on May 21, 1502. He named it after St Helena of Constantinople, the consort of Roman emperor Constantius Chlorus and mother of Constantine the Great.
St Helena has been a British Overseas Territory for longer than anywhere else except Bermuda. The British used St Helena as a prison for both Napoleon and some 5,000 Boer War captives. Charles Darwin visited St Helena in 1836 and described it as “a curious little world within itself”. Today St Helena has only one newspaper, one radio station and one internet service provider.
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