Adding birthdays and anniversary to Google calendar

Question

I know how to add a yearly event but is there an option to add birthdays and/or anniversaries to Google Calendar?

I am not talking of the "Birthday calendar" but manually adding a birthday event to my existing calendar.

I can't seem to find any such option.

I wrote myself a simple web app that takes a spreadsheet of birthdays and produces an .ics url that I can subscribe to in Google Calendar. I get events with names such as "Lauren Ipsum turns 26" on the appropriate days.
Google Calendar doesn't distinguish event types (e.g. note, anniversary, or birthday).

Ptolemy · Answer 1 · 2012-03-21 06:27:10Z

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Why not add a yearly event and label it "Person ABC's birthday"?

If you are having problems with recurring events, then you can address that by changing the duration from "never ends" to a finite number of years.

I hope this information helps.

answered Mar 21 '12 at 6:27

Ptolemy

	as mentioned i already know it but can i set the event type – Web Developer Mar 21 '12 at 7:17
	My apologies, I am not aware of any classification by event type. All I do is choose event color to distinguish between events (within one calendar). – Ptolemy Mar 21 '12 at 9:09

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