Icloud Calendar duplicates and unable to clean up

I have un-synced my devices and am just trying to clean up my calendar through iCloud Calendar online.

Somehow birthdays keep populating my calendar in quadruplets or even more. I have deleted and they just keep returning.

I cannot figure out how to stop this.

HELP!!!

Thanks in advance

iPhone SE, iOS 11.4, Want to sync with MS Outlook

Posted on Jul 6, 2018 12:03 AM

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tygb

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Jul 6, 2018 2:21 AM in response to Linda2France

See this article iCloud: Advanced Calendar and iCal troubleshooting - Apple Support

Eric Root

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Jul 6, 2018 2:26 PM in response to Linda2France

Calendar - Resolving Duplicate Calendars

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