July 4th 2025 Fireworks In New Britain

NEW BRITAIN, CT — Independence Day falls on a Friday in 2025, kicking off a star-spangled three-day weekend packed with fireworks, festivals and other Fourth of July fun in and around New Britain

Here is information about the upcoming New Britain Bees fireworks display:

• What: 4th Of July 2025 Fireworks With The New Britain Bees
• When: Saturday, June 28, following the game
• Where: New Britain Stadium

It's fireworks night at the New Britain Bees game.

The Bees will take on the Vermont Lake Monsters beginning at 6:35 p.m. The fireworks display will begin after the game.

More information on tickets can be found here.

• What: New Britain's Great American Boom 2025
• When: Friday, July 4
• Where: Willow Brook Park

New Britain's Great American Boom and Fourth of July fireworks show returns for 2025.

The event will take place at Willow Brook Park, beginning at 5 p.m. Fireworks will begin at approximately 9:30 p.m., according to Small Town Travel Guide, which notes an admission price of $10 per car.

There will also be food, family activities and entertainment.

More information can be found here

Independence Day commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. In that document, the 13 original colonies declared their independence from Great Britain.

During the pivotal summer of 1776, the pre-Revolutionary celebrations honoring King George III’s birthday were replaced with mock funerals as a symbolic break from the crown.

It was an exciting time in Philadelphia — the Continental Congress voted to break from the crown and, two days later on July 4, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the original 13 colonies —New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia — to adopt the Declaration of Independence.

The first annual commemoration of the nation’s independence was in Philadelphia on July 4, 1777, while the Revolutionary War was ongoing. Fireworks have been part of Fourth of July festivities since the first celebration in Philadelphia.

Today, Americans celebrate with fireworks, parades, concerts, and family gatherings and barbecues. Celebrations, though, predate by centuries the designation of Independence Day as a federal holiday, which didn’t happen until 1941.