The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in 1886.
The dedication ceremony took place on October 28, 1886, in New York Harbor. President Grover Cleveland presided, and the event followed a large parade through Manhattan and a naval procession to the island. The statue was formally presented as a gift from the people of France to the United States.
The date is sometimes confused with 1876, the centennial year of American independence. France originally hoped to complete the statue for that anniversary, but fundraising, engineering, shipping, and pedestal construction delays pushed the dedication back by a decade. The statue arrived in New York in 1885 in hundreds of crates and was reassembled after the pedestal was finished.
Its official title is Liberty Enlightening the World. The monument was designated a national monument in 1924 and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984.