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Originally Posted by rantanplan
Mother's day was established in 1907 in the USA and was only 1912 established in the UK.
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No, Mother's day in UK and Ireland is at least from the 17th C.
Also Ancient cultures have celebrated it.
The 1912 date is the USA establishment of an International Mother's Day association, a USA society that seems to have ignored pre-existing Mother's Day celebrations in France, Greece, UK, Ireland etc.
Wikipedia has some nonsense about US Service men bringing it to UK. My Grandmother was born in 1900. It's in various UK books from 18th, 19th and 1920s. It's STILL the 19th or earlier date in UK and Ireland. France has a different origin and date from the 19th C.
Hence different dates in different countries.