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March 17 in Suffolk County, Massachusetts is Evacuation Day, an official holiday commemorating the evacuation of the city of Boston by British forces on March 17, 1776 (see Siege of Boston or American Revolutionary War). Evacuation Day is also observed in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Somerville, Massachusetts. The holiday was first proclaimed in 1941.

March 17 is also St. Patrick's Day, giving Boston's large Irish and Irish-descended population an additional reason to celebrate.

For other uses of the term, see Evacuation Day.