This year US and Australia will celebrate Mother's Day on May 14, 2023, whereas UK and Mexico will mark it on March 19 and May 10 respectively. Different dates to celebrate Mother's Day in US, UK, Australia and Mexico are tied to some religious connotations and orders from the past governments of these countries.

The birth of Mother's Day A woman named Anna Jarvis started a campaign for an official holiday honoring mothers in 1905, the year her own mother died. The first larger-scale celebration of the holiday was in 1908, when Jarvis held a public memorial for her mother in her hometown of Grafton, West Virginia.

Origin And History of Mother's Day In 1907, Anna Jarvis, a resident of the United States, held a memorial service for her late mother. Let's understand the whole story. Mother's Day was declared to be a day to thank her mother, but in reality, it was a day to honour the mothers' movement for social change and peace.