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I'm not sure what went wrong, but today (March 19) was Father's Day here in Italy, but my calendar did not show up the event. I've tried creating a new Google account, to see if the problem would go away, and here is what I saw:

Four calendars were created by default:

My calendars

  • John Higginstyne
  • Birthdays
  • Google Tasks

Other calendars

  • Holidays in Italy

(another Google account which had already been set up and been in use also had another entry named "Holidays in United Kingdom" and others).


Anyways, why isn't the event "Father's Day" showing up in Google Calendar? I even tried clicking on the squares next to each calendar so that such squares would become colored (hence enabled, I would guess).

Thank you for your help.

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  • There might be downloadable calendars with the holidays you want, which you could import into Google Calender.
    – Daniel B
    Mar 20, 2015 at 8:57
  • Yeah, I was able to find this link which has a Google Calendar button which takes you to this link which adds a Google Calendar in the "Other calendars" section. This site also has pictures; too bad pictures don't seem to be supported by Google Calendar (at least not at the moment). Mar 20, 2015 at 19:09
  • No idea why this post has attracted the nutters in the last 24 hours (probably being linked to from a conservative site) but this is relevant for answering the actual question: webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/94677/… Jun 5, 2023 at 16:40

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Google only shows Public Holidays in the selected country.

According to Wikipedia:

In Italy, according to the Roman Catholic tradition, fathers are celebrated on ... March 19. It is not a public holiday.

It is not a public holiday, and therefore does not show in "Holidays in Italy."

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  • Fair enough. But there are a number of days (even for instance Mother's Day, Halloween in the US, Carnival, or even saints' days (in Italy each day is supposed to have a Saint's name associated with it, and if a person's name is the same as that of the Saint's name, then a small feast is celebrated to honor such person). Mar 20, 2015 at 8:45
  • Since it would be a relatively lengthy and unproductive process to add all of this by hand, is there a script or plugin somewhere which updates a calendar according to the special days (which may not correspond to holidays as you pointed out) for all countries such calendar is set up to support? How can I get Google Calendar to display the celebration names of such days? Mar 20, 2015 at 8:45
  • (PS: I'd like to upvote you, but I don't have enough points). Mar 20, 2015 at 8:46

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