On Thursday, Australia will celebrate its most important public holiday again, and almost every Australian is excited. Yes, either they want to join the long list of celebrations across the country, or they just want to simply legitimately skip work and rest at home.

Australia Day, celebrated every 26^th of January, or the following Monday in case the date falls on a weekend, has a high cultural significance. Despite this, many Australians don’t know that it actually commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet of British ships 200 years ago—in 1788—at Port Jackson in New South Wales.  This was the day when Captain Arthur Philip declared the country as a British colony.  

Read more about: 5 things to expect from this year’s Australia Day on January 25,  2017