* Patriots ' Day – April 21

In Quebec, it is known as Patriots Day.

* 1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots ' Victory Day.

* Patriots ' Victory Day ( Ethiopia )

** National Patriots Day or Journée nationale des patriotes.

* Day of Patriots and Military ( Hungary )

* Patriots ' Day, a holiday in the U. S. states of Massachusetts, Maine, and Wisconsin in honor of Lexington and Concord.

Each year on Patriots ' Day ( traditionally April 19 ; since 1969, observed on the 3rd Monday in April as part of a 3-day Patriots ' Day weekend ), the Acton Minutemen lead a march from Acton Center to the Old North Bridge in Concord.

The facilities are also open as part of the local Patriots ' Day holiday observance each April.

* Hosmer House: This Revolutionary War-era home, which is owned and maintained by the Acton Historical Society, is typically open to the public on Patriots ' Day, September 27 (' Crown Resistance Day '), as well as May 27 and June 24, from 2 to 4 o ' clock.

* Woburn Patriots Day Reenactment Website

One of the most popular traditions is the celebration of Marathon Monday, which occurs on Patriots Day each spring, and is highlighted by the Boston Marathon.

It is always held on Patriots ' Day, the third Monday of April.

* Patriots ' Day

* National Patriots ' Day

It was abolished by Massachusetts in 1894 ( being replaced with Patriots ' Day ) and shortly thereafter by Maine, which also adopted Patriots ' Day.

In Quebec, the same day was, since the Quiet Revolution, unofficially known as Fête de Dollard until 2003, when provincial legislation officially named the same date as Victoria Day the National Patriots ' Day.

The name was rejected by the NFL and on March 23, 1971, the team officially announced they would become the New England Patriots.

On September 25, 2008, Brown officially retired from professional football during a press conference alongside Patriots owner Robert Kraft and head coach Bill Belichick.

In Quebec, Victoria Day was, since the Quiet Revolution, unofficially known as Fête de Dollard until 2003, when provincial legislation officially named the same date as Victoria Day the National Patriots ' Day.

Prior to the 2010 PDL season the Patriots signed signed a formal agreement with Mexican Premier Division team Guadalajara, and were officially rebranded as the Chivas El Paso Patriots.

The Patriots ultimately built Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, their home throughout most of their history, and that plan was abandoned.

The New England Patriots, commonly called the " Pats ," are a professional football team based in the Greater Boston area, playing their home games in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts at Gillette Stadium.

The following year, the Patriots moved to a new stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, which would serve as their home for 30 years.

In the 1780s, groups of Stockbridge Indians moved from Massachusetts to a new location among the Oneida people in western New York, who were granted a reservation for their service to the Patriots, out of their former territory of.

* New England Patriots, an American football team of the National Football League, based in Foxborough, Massachusetts.

It was formed February 1, 2008 by a merger of three councils: Girls Scouts, Patriots ' Trail ; Girl Scout Council of Southeastern Massachusetts ; Girl Scouts of Spar and Spindle Council.

Ongoing political tensions between Great Britain and the thirteen colonies reached a crisis in 1774 when the British placed the province of Massachusetts under martial law after the Patriots protested taxes they regarded as a violation of their constitutional rights as Englishmen.

Patriots ' Grave in the Old Burying Ground, Arlington, Massachusetts.

When the new name was proposed, it received opposition from Massachusetts, which already had a Patriots ' Day.

Patriots ' Grave in the Old Burying Ground ( Arlington, Massachusetts ) | Old Burying Ground, Arlington, Massachusetts.

Another early example is when the New England Patriots of the National Football League sold the rights to name the stadium that they had constructed in Foxborough, Massachusetts in 1970 – 1971 to the Schaefer brewery.

This was because the Patriots received no funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or the town of Foxborough.

The new surface installed at Commonwealth was FieldTurf Duraspine Pro, and it was the newest version of the product at the time and it is the same surface that was installed at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro Massachusetts, home of the New England Patriots.

Participants in reenactment events often don tricornes, and they also can be seen in sports culture as worn by fans of teams with Revolutionary names, such as the New England Patriots ( an American football team ), the New England Revolution ( a Major League Soccer team ), the United States men's national soccer team, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the George Washington University.

Born on December 15, 1940 in Springfield, Massachusetts, Buoniconti graduated from Notre Dame, and was drafted by the American Football League's Patriots in the thirteenth round of the 1962 AFL draft.

* Myra Kraft ( née Hiatt ), ( 1942 – 2011 ), Bancroft Class of 1960: Philanthropist with the New England Patriots Charitable Foundation ; Robert K. and Myra H. Kraft Foundation ; American Repertory Theatre ; Brandeis University ; United Way of Massachusetts Bay ; Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston ; Kraft Stadium for American football in Jerusalem.

By spring 1773, Patriots decided to follow the Massachusetts system and began to set up their own committees in each colony.

After Rowland lobbied the Connecticut legislature to approve state funds for the stadium the Patriots were given another opportunity to resume negotiations with the Massachusetts legislators who had initially balked on paying for site improvements for a new stadium in Foxboro.

At the last minute the Massachusetts legislature approved the subsidies and hurdles were cleared for what became Gillette Stadium in the Patriots ' longtime home of Foxboro.

Even though the Patriots and the Red Sox both play in the Boston area, each team has many fans in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.