I think if you bought via Apple it’ll recognise your new purchase and give you a month of free iCloud data enough to do a full backup and restore, for this purpose

Guess we should all eat increasingly less beef then

It’s the difference between the software and the service - your calendar on your phone is the software that receives the data from various calendar services. These don’t go to iCloud and then to your calendar app- they go straight to the app. So when you log in to your iCloud you only see the events for that service specifically

Oh my god I was scrolling beans and I COMPLETELY forgot these types of beans existed, thank you