When is Mardi Gras Day for the year 2002?
Mardi Gras day in 2002 is February 12th. There are about three weeks of parades leading up to Mardi Gras Day. Mardi Gras Day (which is also Fat Tuesday) is the last day of the Carnival season. Mardi Gras day falls on a different day each year. It is always 47 days before Easter (the 40 days of Lent plus six days from that Sunday.) Now some of you probably said,” What!”. For those that did, visit our 25 plus year calendar of Dates of Mardi Gras. Who had Mardi Gras first? Mardi Gras’s beginnings are in Europe, particularly France. In North America, Mobile and New Orleans share many “Firsts” in the history of Mardi Gras. Which city deserves the most credit depends on who you ask the question to. Records from the late 1600’s and early 1700’s are incomplete and sometimes disputed by historians. But, the first observance of Fat Tuesday in the United States occurred in Mobile in 1699 with the founding of the Point du Mardi Gras site. However, many of the first organized functions (such as the
