Subscribe or Download: What's the difference?

You can easily download or subscribe to birthdays and events from AmericanHistoryCalendar.com to your computer or Google calendar. What's the difference? Downloading the calendar is a one-time shot. All the events are downloaded but you will not get updates to the calendar if additions or changes are made. Subscribing to a calendar gives you all the events plus your calendar program will periodically check for calendar updates. Not all calendar programs support both options. Follow the directions below for the appropriate calendar program you are using.

Customize a Calendar

So you don't need all of the categories shown on the calendar? No problem, you can download or subscribe to only the categories you are interested in. From the calendar page, select the categories you want displayed and press the "Update calendar" button. Use the "Toggle Categories" box to select or unselect all categories. Click either the subscribe or download icon at the top of the page to receive to your customized calendar.

Downloading a Calendar

This option may work if your calendar program does not support subscriptions. This will download the calendar as an ics/ical file to your PC. Use your calendar program's "import" process to import the file into your calendar.

1. Choose the People or Events calendar
2. Click the download icon at the top right of the calendar
   
3. click the "http:// ..." URL
4. Your browser should prompt you to save the calendar file to your PC
5. Use your calendar program to import the just downloaded calendar

Subscribing to a Calendar

For iCal Users (Mac)

1. Choose the People or Events calendar
2. Click the subscribe icon at the top right of the calendar
   
3. Click the "webcal:// ..." URL
4. iCal will automatically open, asking if you wish to subscribe. Follow the prompts to subscribe to the calendar.

For Thunderbird / Sunbird Users

1. Choose the People or Events calendar
2. Click the subscribe icon at the top right of the calendar
3. Highlight the "http://..." URL with your mouse, then choose the menu option "Edit | Copy" to copy the URL to your computer's clipboard
4. Open up Thunderbird or Sunbird program, choose the menu option "File | New | Calendar..."
5. Follow the screen to setup a calendar on the network using the iCalendar (ICS) format. Paste the URL into the Location field

For Google Calendar Users (Browser)

1. Choose the People or Events calendar
2. Click the subscribe icon at the top right of the calendar
3. Highlight the "http://..." URL with your mouse, then choose the menu option "Edit | Copy" to copy the URL to your computer's clipboard
4. Open up your Google Calendar, use the "Add by URL" option to create a new calendar and paste the URL into the URL field

For Outlook 2007 Users

(Note: Outlook 2003 is not supported)