<P> The event that Americans commonly call the `` First Thanksgiving '' was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in October 1621 . This feast lasted three days , and -- as accounted by attendee Edward Winslow -- it was attended by 90 Native Americans and 53 Pilgrims . The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating `` thanksgivings '' -- days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought . </P>
<P> The event that Americans commonly call the `` First Thanksgiving '' was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in October 1621 . This feast lasted three days , and -- as accounted by attendee Edward Winslow -- it was attended by 90 Native Americans and 53 Pilgrims . The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating `` thanksgivings '' -- days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought . </P>
when was thanksgiving celebrated for the first time
when was thanksgiving celebrated for the first time
October 1621
October 1621