This date is dedicated to celebrate and honor the Argentine flag, and to pay homage to its creator, Manuel Belgrano, who died on that day in 1820, in the city of Buenos Aires.

The flag was created by Belgrano for marking the troops fighting the Spanish Royal Army,amid the wars for the independence of these South American territories.

Belgrano gave the order to create a "white and light blue" flag, with the golden Inca sun in the middle, which has since then represented the war flags of Argentina.

On February 27, 1812, Belgrano headed the first hoisting of what would become the national flag on the banks of the Paraná River, in the current city of Rosario.

Belgrano was one of the most notable Argentine economists, forerunner of national journalism, promoter of public education, domestic industry and social justice.

In his view for a new nation, he spoke of the necessary integration of indigenous people and enslaved Africans as an essential part of the new society that was emerging, breaking free from Spain.

He died poor and forgotten by the people of his time. He had invested all his personal fortune in financing the troops for the War of Independence.