About Old Calendars
Old Calendars brings every past US calendar from 1995 to 2027 together with accurate holidays, printable PDFs, practical date calculators and the researched history of each year.
Meet the founder
I'm a software engineer. I build web and mobile apps, and the work I enjoy most is turning an everyday frustration into a tool that simply works. My goal with every project is the same: provide a solution that is genuinely helpful and makes something easier for the people who use it.
I built Old Calendars to make date lookups practical: find an old year, distinguish a holiday from its observed day, check a weekday and print a readable calendar in one place. My focus is on small tools that save people repeated searches and make the answer easier to check.
Why I built it
These are concrete calendar tasks the site supports. Published calendar rules help explain why a date lookup sometimes needs more than a grid.
A birthday, an anniversary or a dated photograph may lead you to a year that a current-year planner does not show. You need all twelve months and a reliable weekday, not just a decorative template.
Solution: Permanent year pages from 1995 to 2027 put the complete calendar first, with a weekday finder for individual dates.
Independence Day in 2026 falls on Saturday, July 4, but the Office of Personnel Management lists Friday, July 3 as the observed holiday for most federal employees. Confusing the two can change a business-day count.
Solution: Actual and observed dates are shown separately, with a reminder that schools, employers and banks can follow different schedules.
A calendar repeats when its starting weekday and leap-year pattern match. That does not mean Easter or lunar-calendar observances repeat on the same dates.
Solution: The same-calendar finder identifies matching date grids and explains the limits before you reuse an old calendar.
Navigation, long articles and oversized grids can turn a simple calendar into several unwanted pages. A useful printout needs a predictable page size and legible dates.
Solution: Each year offers a one-page US Letter calendar and a twelve-page monthly PDF, plus a print layout that removes navigation and long articles.
A modern Gregorian calendar cannot by itself explain dates in every historical record. The UK National Archives documents the 1752 calendar change and the complications of Old Style dates.
Solution: Our guides distinguish modern calendar calculations from historical dating conventions, and event articles link to their sources.
Who it's for
Find the weekday you were born, what was happening that year, and the calendar for a wedding or a child's birth.
Check whether a date in an old record makes sense, estimate ages from census entries and read pre-1752 dates correctly.
Build timelines, check event dates and weekdays, and print a clean calendar of any year for a class project.
Cross-check which days were federal holidays in a past year, count business days and confirm the weekday of a deadline.
Find which old calendars fit this year, or keep this year's calendar for the next year that matches it.
Download a free one-page year PDF or a monthly PDF with holidays written in, sized for US Letter paper.
The US Office of Personnel Management explains observed federal holidays. The UK National Archives provides guidance for reading historical documents. These resources support the date distinctions described above; they are not endorsements of this website.
The calendar engine. Every calendar, holiday date, moon phase and season on this site is calculated by code, not typed by hand. Federal holidays follow 5 U.S.C. 6103 and the Office of Personnel Management's weekend rules. Easter uses the standard Gregorian method, Jewish, Islamic and Lunar New Year dates come from the Hebrew, Umm al-Qura and Chinese calendars, and moon phases and seasons use the published algorithms of astronomer Jean Meeus. An automated test suite checks these results against known, published dates every time the site is built.
The history. Year timelines, event articles, holiday histories and guides are researched from government archives, official organizations, universities and established news services. Each article lists its sources at the end, and wording is original to Old Calendars. Our editorial policy explains how pages are researched and corrected.
Your privacy. The calendars and calculators work without an account. Dates you type into a calculator stay in your browser.