Records show a St. Patrick’s Day parade was held on March 17, 1601, in what is now St. Augustine, Florida.

Records show a St. Patrick’s Day parade was held on March 17, 1601, in what is now St. Augustine, Florida.

The tradition of partying in Florida on March 17 started in the state’s oldest city, St. Augustine, according to the History Channel.

Princess Kate Middleton celebrated St. Patrick’s Day after missing last year’s events while receiving cancer treatment. Kate, 43, attended the Irish Guard’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in ...

The history of the day, however, dates back hundreds of years, and our modern iteration is vastly different from the St. Patrick's Day celebrations of yore.

The website says a St. Patrick’s Day parade was held in 1601 in the Spanish colony under the direction of the colony's Irish vicar, Ricardo Artur.

James Mullooly, the organizer of Latrobe's upcoming St. Patrick's Day parade, says he loves Pittsburgh's St. Patrick's parade and doesn't want to take anything away from it.

The story of America’s first known Saint Patrick’s Day celebration begins and ends not in an Irish-American enclave of Boston or New York but in the crumbling colonial splendor of Seville, Spain.