During the observance, many people add a garland to statues of Shah, participate in the parades, and remember his contribution to Nepal.

[2] After his victory at the Battle of Nuwakot (1744), he headed for the Kathmandu Valley, where the three Malla kingdoms Bhaktapur, Patan, and Kantipur were ruling.

[3] Recently, Shah had also imposed a blockade on the kingdom which hurt the East India Company's trans-Himalayan trade with Tibet and China as they used the route that went through Kantipur.

[4] The company accepted the request and sent Captain Kinloch who met Prithvi Narayan Shah's forces at the Battle of Sindhuli in 1767.

[12][16][17] In 2021, the Nepal Police and pro-monarchy supporters clashed injuring some, as they were trying to put garlands on the statue of Prithvi Narayan Shah in a restricted area outside Singha Durbar.

[20] In 2022, Rajendra Prasad Lingden, Chairman of Rastriya Prajatantra Party, sent a memorandum asking Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba to declare Prithvi Jayanti as a public holiday, and the party has also told they would start a nationwide protests if their request was not met.

[21] The same year, Bibeksheel Sajha Party said Prithvi Jayanti should be celebrated as Nepal Day and supported idea of declaring it as a public holiday.

[26] The Nepali Army organises a unification torch rally from the birthplace of Shah in Gorkha and it concludes after reaching the capital Kathmandu on 11 January.