Seasonal & Holidays
July 4 2025: Plenty Of Fireworks Shows Still On Tap In And Near Manchester
Your guide to remaining 2025 fireworks displays close by for Manchester residents.
MANCHESTER, CT — Independence Day falls on a Friday in 2025, kicking off a star-spangled three-day weekend packed with fireworks displays in and within a close distance to Manchester.
There are plenty of fireworks displays on tap on and around July 4.
To help you fit it all in on your 4th of July-related calendar, Patch has put together a guide to fireworks displays in the the surrounding areas.
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Here is a sampling:
Hartford County
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- Talcott Mountain Celebrate America Festival In Simsbury 4th of July Fireworks Details
- New Britain’s 4th of July 2025 Fireworks Details
July 4, 5
July 5
- Hartford Bonanza’s 4th of July 2025 Fireworks Details
- Manchester’s 4th of July 2025 Fireworks Details
July 19
July 25
Tolland County
July 9
Middlesex County
Aug. 23
New London County
July 3
July 12
- Celebrate New London’s 4th of July 2025 Fireworks Details
- Fort Griswold Celebration, 4th of July 2025 Fireworks In Groton Details
July 19
Windham County
July 5
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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 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.
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