Editing Parade (section)

== History ==
[[File:Federation Parade, Sydney 032050.jpg|thumb|A parade in [[Sydney]] to celebrate the [[Federation of Australia]] in January 1901]]The first parades date back to {{Circa|2000 BC}}, only being used for religious or military purposes. The [[Babylonia|Babylonians]] celebrated [[Akitu]] by parading their deities and performing rituals.<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 March 2021 |title=Parade History: When Did We Start Doing This All The Time? |url=https://historydaily.org/parade-history-when-did-we-start-doing-this-all-the-time/4 |access-date=2024-03-23 |website=History Daily |language=en}}</ref>

To celebrate the federal government's victory in the [[American Civil War]], 145,000 [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] soldiers marched in a two-day [[Grand Review of the Armies]] in [[Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War|Washington, D.C.]] They passed before the President, the Cabinet, and senior officers from May 23–24, 1865.

At the end of hostilities in Europe in 1944–45, "victory parades" were a common feature throughout the recently liberated territories. For example, on 3 September 1944, the personnel of the [[2nd Canadian Infantry Division]] marched six abreast to the music of massed regimental pipe and drum bands through the streets of [[Dieppe, Seine-Maritime|Dieppe]], France, to commemorate the liberation of the city from German occupation, as well as commemorate the loss of over 900 soldiers from that formation during the [[Dieppe Raid]] two years earlier.<ref>[http://www.wlu.ca/lcmsds/cmh/back%20issues/CMH/volume%201/issue%201-2/Copp%20-%20Return%20to%20Dieppe%20-%20September%201944.pdf] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402233101/http://www.wlu.ca/lcmsds/cmh/back%20issues/CMH/volume%201/issue%201-2/Copp%20-%20Return%20to%20Dieppe%20-%20September%201944.pdf|date=April 2, 2015}}</ref> On the [[Moscow Victory Parade of 1945]] held in [[Moscow]], [[Soviet Union]] in June 1945, the [[Red Army]] commemorated [[VE-Day|Victory in Europe]] with a parade and the ceremonial destruction of captured [[Wehrmacht]] and [[Waffen-SS]] standards.