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Statehood Day of Serbia (15 February) is the national holiday of the Republic of Serbia.

It commemorates the outbreak of the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman rule (1804), as well as adoption of the first modern Serbian constitution (1835), known as the Sretenje Constitution or Candlemas Constitution (Candlemas – the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus Christ is celebrated on the same day in the the Eastern Orthodox tradition).