[role="xpack"]
[[ml-put-calendar]]
=== Create Calendar API
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<titleabbrev>Create Calendar</titleabbrev>
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This API enables you to instantiate a calendar.

==== Request

`PUT _xpack/ml/calendars/<calendar_id>`

//===== Description

==== Path Parameters

`calendar_id` (required)::
  (string) Identifier for the calendar.


==== Request Body

`description`::
  (string) A description of the calendar.

==== Authorization

You must have `manage_ml`, or `manage` cluster privileges to use this API.
For more information, see
{xpack-ref}/security-privileges.html[Security Privileges].


//==== Examples
//See plugin/src/test/resources/rest-api-spec/test/ml/calendar_crud.yml
