Independence Day (Antigua and Barbuda)

Independence Day is a public holiday in Antigua and Barbuda, observed on November 1 each year. The holiday commemorates the anniversary of when Antigua and Barbuda achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1981.

Antigua and Barbuda is an island country in the West Indies in the Americas with two major islands Antigua and Barbuda, and smaller islands. Indigenous people inhabited the island for thousands of years before Christopher Columbus first sighted the island in 1493. The British settled on Antigua in 1632 and Barbuda in 1685. They brought slaves from Western Africa and developed Tobacco and Sugar plantations on the islands.

Although there was an attempted attack from France in 1666 and the slave revolts in the 1700s, the British managed to maintain control of the islands.

In 1958, Antigua and Barbuda joined the West Indies Federation, which collapsed in 1962. In 1967, Antigua and Barbuda became an associated state of the United Kingdom and was granted control of internal affairs. Antigua and Barbuda gained full independence from the United Kingdom on November 1, 1981.

The following is the list of Independence Day in Antigua and Barbuda from 2022 to 2026.

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