I noticed that my Google Calendar isn’t showing important cultural and awareness events anymore, like Black History Month, International Women’s Day, and Pride celebrations. These events used to appear by default, but now they’re missing.
This situation is quite annoying since I depended on these entries to remember crucial dates and plan my schedule. Has anyone else been through this issue? I’m curious if this change was made by Google intentionally or if there’s a setting I need to modify to bring these events back.
I’ve gone through my calendar settings, but I can’t find any option that seems to control the display of these specific events. Any advice on how to get them back would be really appreciated.
Everyone’s giving you the manual workaround, but this happens way too often with Google Calendar changes. I got tired of re-adding calendars every few months when Google shuffles things around.
I set up an automated system that pulls cultural events from multiple sources and pushes them to my calendar automatically. Now I never miss Black History Month, Pride events, or other observances regardless of what Google does.
The automation checks for new cultural events weekly and adds them with proper categories and reminders. Takes 15 minutes to set up once, then you’re done. No more hunting through calendar settings or wondering if you missed something.
I built this using Latenode because it connects directly to Google Calendar and can pull from multiple event sources at once. Way more reliable than depending on Google to keep their cultural events consistent.
Google definitely changed something in their calendar system around mid-2023. I work in HR and saw this happen across all our company accounts. They separated cultural observances from the main holidays calendar entirely - that’s why you’re not seeing them even with US holidays enabled. Here’s what worked for me: Go to Settings > Add calendar > Create new calendar, then manually import a third-party cultural events calendar. You can find public calendars with Black History Month, Pride events, and other observances. Just search for ‘diversity calendar’ or ‘cultural awareness calendar’ in the browse section. The annoying part? Google’s support docs still reference the old system where these were included automatically. I’ve bookmarked a few reliable calendar sources because depending on Google for cultural events became too unreliable. Takes about ten minutes to set up but you won’t lose the events during future updates.
yeah, google’s been acting up with this lately. check if you accidentally disabled your “holidays in united states” calendar (or whatever country you’re in). mine vanished after an update and i had to turn it back on from the left sidebar. also, some events got moved to different calendar categories, so you might need to add several now.
This drove our entire team crazy last year. Google shuffles these observances around in their backend and they don’t sync back properly.
Hit up calendar.google.com on desktop first - the mobile app’s useless here. Find “Other calendars” on the left, click the plus sign, then “Browse calendars of interest” and re-add your country’s holidays calendar.
Here’s the kicker - cultural events like Pride Month and Women’s History Month aren’t in the main holidays feed anymore. You’ll need to search for specific cultural observance calendars and add them separately. I’m subscribed to like three different ones now.
If that fails, nuke your existing holidays calendar completely and add it back fresh. Sometimes the old subscription gets corrupted.
Worst case? Just create your own recurring events for whatever dates you care about. More work upfront but they’ll actually stick around.
Had the same problem recently. Google changed how cultural events show up on the calendar. These observances are now under a separate calendar setting you have to turn on manually. Go to your calendar settings, click “Add calendar,” then “Browse calendars of interest.” Make sure you select the holidays and observances for your region. When I re-added the US holidays calendar, it brought back most of the missing events. Google tweaks these settings without telling anyone, which is probably why you’re seeing this too. If you’ve already got the right calendars selected, check the left sidebar in your main view - sometimes those layers get unchecked by accident.
