The problem seems to be this sexp from the OP's post: (setq holiday-local-holidays nil calendar-christian-all-holidays-flag t calendar-holidays (list japanese-holidays polish-holidays english-holidays ;; holiday-local-holidays general-holidays holiday-christian-holidays holiday-solar-holidays) ;; calendar-mark-holidays-flag t calendar-week-start-day 1 calendar-date-style 'european) Using `list' results in an unsuitable list structure. I replaced it by `append' (again omitting japanese-holidays), restarted Emacs, did `M-x calendar', typed `h' on March 10 in the Calendar buffer, and the echo area displayed this message: Wednesday, 10 March 2021: Dzień Mężczyzn So I guess that should fix the OP's problem. Steve