Please note that the Easter dates given here are for the Gregorian calendar , which was introduced in Some countries did not begin to use the Gregorian Calendar until as late as People in those countries may not have celebrated Easter on the dates given here! March 22nd March 23rd March 24th March 25th March 26th , , March 27th , , March 28th , March 29th , , March 30th , , , March 31st , , , April 1st , , , April 2nd , April 3rd , , , April 4th , , , April 5th , , April 6th , , , April 7th , , , April 8th , April 9th , , April 10th , , April 11th , , , April 12th , , , , April 13th , April 14th , , April 15th , , April 16th , , , April 17th , , , April 18th , , April 19th , , , April 20th , , April 21st , , April 22nd , , April 23rd , , April 24th April 25th The most common date between the year and is April Eastern churches, including the Eastern Orthodox Church, use the Julian calendar , therefore the date usually differs from the Gregorian calendar, even though the dates are computed in a similar way.
The date of Easter is determined as the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon falling on or next after the spring equinox March 21 — a fixed date not the real, astronomical equinox. The Paschal full moon refers to the 14th day of the ecclesiastical lunar month and not the real, astronomical Full Moon, and its date is determined from tables. However, most often the two dates coincide, and between the year and there are only 18 differences between the dates calculated using the two methods.
A well-known method of calculating the date of Easter was given by Carl Friedrich Gauss, however a simpler method was described by Jean Meeus in [1].
The first Christians followed the biblical Hebrew calendar and timed the observance of Easter in relation to the date of the Jewish Passover.
Passover was celebrated by the Israelites to commemorate their deliverance from the slavery in Egypt. The Passover meal was eaten at sunset on the 14th day of Nisan Aviv. Jesus was crucified on the 14th and rose from the dead some time before sunrise on the 16th day of Nisan. Because the Jews got away from the biblical Hebrew calendar in AD and further in AD , and because the Christians wanted the date to be independent of the Jewish calendar, the First Council of Nicaea AD established the independent and uniform calculation of the Easter date.
In many countries, Easter is a public holiday , and as it always falls on Sunday, some countries also have Easter Monday as a public holiday, including Australia, Germany and Ireland. Although, Easter is the most important Christian holiday it is not as popular as Christmas. It joins two important events of which the first is profoundly sad and dramatic while the other is just the opposite. The first one is, of course, the Crucifixion and Death of Christ after which his body was placed in the tomb.
Three days later he Resurrected beating death. Resurrection is a triumph of life and even more astonishing than the miracle of Christ birth. The wettest Easter occurred on Sunday, April 3rd when 0. The snowiest Easter was back in when on April 3rd, 1. These winds also sent two large steamers into the shallow water.
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