Lithuania on May 1, reminds ELTA:
in 1528 On the initiative of the Grand Duke of Lithuania and the King of Poland Žigimantas the Elder, the nobles who were obliged to do military service were listed. These were the first mobilization lists of Lithuanian nobles.
in 1832 Vilnius University was closed by decree of Russian Emperor Nicholas I.
in 1892 Vilnius workers celebrated May Day for the first time in Lithuania.
in 1896 the first Lithuanian political party was founded – the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, later renamed the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party.
in 1921 Prose writer Kostas Marukas (Marijonas Krasauskas) was born in Kaunas. Died in 1992
in 1993 The Homeland Union (Lithuanian Conservatives) was founded.
in 1994 The Lithuanian Mission to the United Nations and the Consulate General were opened in New York.
in 1994 The Value Added Tax Law came into force in Lithuania.
in 2002 after a break of more than 10 years, Lithuania officially started to celebrate May 1 – International Workers’ Day again.
in 2002 the Confederation of Lithuanian Trade Unions was established.
in 2004 Ireland, which held the presidency of the European Union at the time, celebrated the admission of ten new countries, including Lithuania, to the European Union with a festive ceremony in the capital city of Dublin.
in 2012 Viktoras Petkus, a long-time fighter for human rights, founder of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group, dissident Viktoras Petkus died at the age of 84.
in 2021 A commemorative plaque to the social democrat, signatory of the Act of Independence Steponas Kairis was unveiled in Vilnius. Its author is the sculptor Leonas Pivoriūnas. A commemorative plaque was unveiled on Totorių st. 3 of the house where S. Kairys lived in 1917-1918. not only lived, but also actively expressed himself in the activities of the Council of Lithuania, edited the newspaper “Darbo balsas”, created and edited the Act of February 16 with like-minded people.
Some of the May 1st events of various years were recalled by ELTA.
