The Compagnie de Saint-Christophe was a company created and chartered by French adventurers to exploit the island of Saint-Christophe, the present-day Saint Kitts and Nevis.
 In 1625, a French adventurer, Pierre Bélain sieur d'Esnambuc, landed on Saint-Christophe with a band of adventurers and some slaves.
 Returning to France, in 1626 he applied to and received a charter from Cardinal Richelieu to create the "Compagnie de Saint-Christophe".
 Richelieu was a major stockholder in the company, contributing some 10,000 livres out of the company's capital stock of 45,000 livres.
 The company was not very successful.
 In 1635 Richelieu directed his councilor François Fouquet to reorganize the company under the name "Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique", French for "Company of the American Islands".
 It was charged with colonizing Sainte-Christophe, Martinique and Guadeloupe.
L'Escalade, or Fête de l'Escalade (from escalade, the act of scaling defensive walls), is an annual festival held in December in Geneva, Switzerland, celebrating the defeat of the surprise attack by troops sent by Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy during the night of 11–12 December 1602.
 The celebrations and other commemorative activities are usually held on 12 December or the closest weekend.
The Company of One Hundred Associates (French: formally the Compagnie de la Nouvelle France, or colloquially the Compagnie des Cent-Associés or Compagnie du Canada or Company of New France) was a French trading and colonization company chartered in 1627 to capitalize on the North American fur trade and to expand French colonies there.
 The company was granted a monopoly to manage the fur trade in the colonies of New France, which were at that time centered on the Saint Lawrence River valley and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
 In return the company was supposed to settle French Catholics in New Colonies.
 The Company of One Hundred Associates went out of business in 1663.
The Hari Merdeka Parade (Independence Day Parade) is an annual parade held every 31 August in commemoration of Malaya's independence.
 Since independence, the event has been usually held at Merdeka Square, Kuala Lumpur in commemoration of it being the original site of the first independence parade, which was held on 1 September 1957.
The Universal Maritime Suez Canal Company (French: "Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez" , or simply "Compagnie de Suez" for short) was the corporation that constructed and operated the Suez Canal between 1859 and 1869.
 It was formed by Ferdinand de Lesseps in 1858, and it owned and operated the canal for many years thereafter.
 Initially, French private investors were the majority of the shareholders, with Egypt also having a significant stake.
The Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est (CF de l'Est), often referred to simply as the Est company, was an early French railway company.
 The company was formed in 1853 by fusion from Compagnie de Paris à Strasbourg, operating the Paris-Strasbourg line, and Compagnie du chemin de fer de Montereau à Troyes.
 In 1854 company absorbed Compagnie de Strasbourg à Bale and in 1863 the railway network of Ardennes.
The Company of the American Islands (French: "Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique" ) was a French chartered company that in 1635 took over the administration of the French portion Saint-Christophe island from Compagnie de Saint-Christophe which was the only French settlement in the Caribbean at that time, and was mandated to actively colonise other islands.
 The islands settled for France under the direction of the Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique before it was dissolved in 1651 were:
The Compagnie de Chine was a French trading company established in 1660 by the Catholic society Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement, in order to dispatch missionaries to Asia (initially Bishops François Pallu, Pierre Lambert de la Motte and Ignace Cotolendi of the newly founded Paris Foreign Missions Society).
 The company was modelled on the Dutch East India Company.
The Compagnie de Vichy (Compagnie Fermière de l'établissement thermal de Vichy) is a French company active in the Hydrotherapy, hotel and bottled water business.
 It is based in Vichy, France
The Compagnie de 1602 is an historic and patriotic association in Geneva who organize the official commemoration of the Escalade.
 This association was established on March 31, 1926.

Question: On what date are the celebrations of the commemoration which is organized by the Compagnie de 1602 usually held?
Answer: 12 December