It is celebrated once a year. It will next be celebrated on March 8th 2011.
mardi gras
Mardi Gras is celebrated all over the world. The most renowned area in the United States is in the south around New Orleans. Mardi Gras is celebrated with lavish parades, balls, and parties in the weeks leading up to Lent. .
Mardi Gras this year was on February 16
Mardi Gras is held on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday each year and is celebrated most famously in New Orleans, but also in other cities in the US such as Mobile, Alabama and Galveston, Texas.
Mardi Gras parades start about two weeks before Mardi Gras day. The date of Mardi Gras changes each year since the date of Easter changes. Mardi Gras day always falls the day before Ash Wednesday.
what year was mardi gras first ever created
The French idea of Mardi Gras dates back to the 1600s but the first Mardi Gras celebration in the America took place at Fort Louis de la Mobile in 1703. The first New Orleans Mardi Gras was celebrated in the 1730s.
It can be argued that Mardi Gras has been celebrated in New Orleans since the town was accepted as the capital of Louisiana in 1723. The first formal parade was observed in 1856
Louisiana hosts a huge Mardi Gras celebration every year in New Orleans.
2011
The Cayman Islands Mardi Gras takes place every year on Kaibo Beach on the Ash Wednesday public holiday. This year's Mardi Gras on February 25th 2009 was the 10 year anniversary at Kaibo.