the pilgrims 1621 celebration of their good fortune
The Pilgrims landed in the future state of Massachusetts on December 1620. So they missed that year's harvest. Thanksgiving was an outgrowth of the widespread celebration of thanks for the harvest throughout many places and times. That celebration therefore was held the following year, in 1621.
November 1621
October of 1621 celebrated the first thanksgiving as we know it. The Pilgrims did not celebrate this as their thanksgiving until 1623.
1621
The reason for the Pilgrims holding the first Thanksgiving celebration was to give thanks for a good harvest and having made it to the New World in 1621. Americans continue to celebrate this national day remembering the Pilgrims and also to give thanks for their bounty.
The Pilgrims invited the neighboring Native Americans to join them in a Thanksgiving celebration in November of 1621.
the date was 1621
In the fall of 1621
1621
The exact days of the first Thanksgiving are not known. It is believed this celebration extended for several days and it is known that it occurred during the Fall of 1621.
The year the pilgrims landed in the mayflower.