can you figure out from 1920 to 2020 when easter falls on march 26 and april 12????
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3/26    1967 1978 1989\n4/12    1925 1936 1998 2009 2020
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April 1st but I don't know when April 1. I think late at night if not the early morning. Hey, at least I know the day! =>
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I believe it is April 22nd
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Jut wait a bit while I’m consulting my magic crystal ball…….\nhmmm…. ok… it says…weather will be as like as generally it’s every March and April!
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probably in march or may.
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I believe it's Sunday, April 16th.
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Easter Sunday's date is loosely based on the Jewish calendar. That is the reason it is so complicated. And the reason it is based on the Jewish calendar is that the historical event occurred on the Jewish holiday of Passover. (Note, however, that some years, the computation of Easter does *not* bring it to a date on or near Passover, as the computation is different for 2 or 3--I don't remember any more--of the 19 year cycle.)\n\nThere are 2 different ways to calculate the date in any given year. One is based on a list of 19 dates (when you get to the bottom of the list, you start over at the beginning), where Easter is the Sunday following the corresponding date on the list.\n\nThe other method requires computing full moons after the (northern hemisphere) spring equinox, then adding days, again to bring it to a Sunday.\n\nThis is somewhat simplified. It is the basic information, not the detail. See below if you want to do the math yourself. Note, also, that the Eastern churches celebrate Easter on different dates in most years.
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Regular Easter is on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the first day of spring (vernal equinox).  I assume that Eastern Orthodox uses a different method to calculate Easter, but it is celebrated for the same reason (Christ arisen from the grave.)
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April 7th-24th\n\ncommon surely i get 10 points for this!!!! i hunted the answer down for you!
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Yes it is.  About 0915 in the morning on the Gold Coast!   Here in Scotland it's just turned Easter.  Happy Easter to you too!
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May 13th\nJune 11th\nJuly 10th
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Easter is the first Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon and the Paschcal full moon is determined by the date of the first actual full moon that occurs after the vernal equinox (the first day of spirng).\n\nThe date of the Paschal Full Moon can differ from the date of the actual full moon by up to 2 days but will always occur between March 21 and April 18 and so Easter Sunday will fall on or between March 22 and April 19.\n\nThese are the dates for Western Easter Sunday (WES), Orthodox Easter Sunday (OES) can fall on different dates.\n\nThis year WES is on April 16th and OES is on April 23rd, next year it will be 8th April for both WES and OES.
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I have an old World Almanac (I think it was 1985's) which actually gave the method for determining Easter, and trust me, it's not something you actually give all the steps of here.  It's truely a mess, and it's this way because the early Church attempted to combine the Jewish and Julian (later the Gregorian) calendars.\n\nIt's actually Easter that is figured, Good Friday is simply the Friday before it.  Easter is supposed to occur on the Sunday after Passover, and if Passover falls on Sunday, then it's the Sunday after that.  Passover, being based on the Jewish calendar, is based on the full moon of a certain month (forget which), and to obfuscticate it even more, the Jewish calendar is lunar, not solar like the Julian/Gregorian calendar.\n\nRoughly, the way it is figured is to take the year and divide it by 19, then throw away everything but thr remainder, then remultiply it to get a certain number (0-18).  You then go to a special chart which gives a date, the date of something called the Pascal Full Moon, no relation to the actual full moon.  Easter is then the Sunday afterwards.  The formula had to be modified with the advent of the Gregorian calendar in the 16th Century, so it really isn't as easy as it sounds.\n\nWithout surprise, there is an ongoing movement to have a fixed date for Easter (in other words, say it's always on  April 10).  The problem is objections by various denominations for various reasons (even a "second Sunday in April" has been attacked).  I suspect the date of Easter will be a mess for a while to come.
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23rd May\nTime, God knows...
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Easter falls on the first Sunday subsequent to the first full moon after the vernal equinox (March 21). Thus, it can occur as early as March 22 and as late as April 25. (If the full moon after the equinox falls on Sunday, Easter follows a week later.)\n\nOriginally Easter was celebrated on the same day as the Jewish Passover. Since the Jewish calendar is lunar, Passover can fall on any day of the week, and some Church fathers were distressed that the Lenten fast should end on any day other than a Sunday. They argued about it until the 8th century, when the church officially adopted the procedure we have now.
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It was conventioned that it would fall on the first sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox.\n\n"At the First Council of Nicaea in 325 it was decided that Easter would be celebrated on the same Sunday throughout the Church, but it is probable that no method was specified by the Council"\n\n"The practice of those following Rome was to celebrate Easter on the first Sunday after the earliest fourteenth day of a lunar month that occurred on or after March 21. During the Middle Ages this practice was more succinctly phrased as Easter is observed on the Sunday after the first full moon on or after the day of the vernal equinox. This full moon is called the Paschal full moon. "\n\nP.S.: chief of nothing is right... vernal equinox... I keep forgetting you people on the south hemisphere... (though I have a good friend there)... sorry :)\n\nP.P.S: Fire and wind 985 you got it the other way round: it's ash wednesday that is counted 40 days backward from the "1st sunday after the 1st full moon after Vernal equinox". How did you think Mardi Gras date was set?
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The Date of Easter\n\nbar\n\nEaster is an annual festival observed throughout the Christian world. The date for Easter shifts every year within the Gregorian Calendar. The Gregorian Calendar is the standard international calendar for civil use. In addition, it regulates the ceremonial cycle of the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches. The current Gregorian ecclesiastical rules that determine the date of Easter trace back to 325 CE at the First Council of Nicaea convened by the Roman Emperor Constantine. At that time the Roman world used the Julian Calendar (put in place by Julius Caesar).\n\nThe Council decided to keep Easter on a Sunday, the same Sunday throughout the world. To fix incontrovertibly the date for Easter, and to make it determinable indefinitely in advance, the Council constructed special tables to compute the date. These tables were revised in the following few centuries resulting eventually in the tables constructed by the 6th century Abbot of Scythia, Dionysis Exiguus. Nonetheless, different means of calculations continued in use throughout the Christian world.\n\nIn 1582 Gregory XIII (Pope of the Roman Catholic Church) completed a reconstruction of the Julian calendar and produced new Easter tables. One major difference between the Julian and Gregorian Calendar is the "leap year rule". See our FAQ on Calendars for a description of the difference. Universal adoption of this Gregorian calendar occurred slowly. By the 1700's, though, most of western Europe had adopted the Gregorian Calendar. The Eastern Christian churches still determine the Easter dates using the older Julian Calendar method.\n\nThe usual statement, that Easter Day is the first Sunday after the full moon that occurs next after the vernal equinox, is not a precise statement of the actual ecclesiastical rules. The full moon involved is not the astronomical Full Moon but an ecclesiastical moon (determined from tables) that keeps, more or less, in step with the astronomical Moon.\n\nThe ecclesiastical rules are:\n\n    * Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox;\n    * this particular ecclesiastical full moon is the 14th day of a tabular lunation (new moon); and\n    * the vernal equinox is fixed as March 21. \n\nresulting in that Easter can never occur before March 22 or later than April 25. The Gregorian dates for the ecclesiastical full moon come from the Gregorian tables. Therefore, the civil date of Easter depends upon which tables - Gregorian or pre-Gregorian - are used. The western (Roman Catholic and Protestant) Christian churches use the Gregorian tables; many eastern (Orthodox) Christian churches use the older tables based on the Julian Calendar.\n\nIn a congress held in 1923, the eastern churches adopted a modified Gregorian Calendar and decided to set the date of Easter according to the astronomical Full Moon for the meridian of Jerusalem. However, a variety of practices remain among the eastern churches.\n\nThere are three major differences between the ecclesiastical system and the astronomical system.\n\n    * The times of the ecclesiastical full moons are not necessarily identical to the times of astronomical Full Moons. The ecclesiastical tables did not account for the full complexity of the lunar motion.\n    * The vernal equinox has a precise astronomical definition determined by the actual apparent motion of the Sun as seen from the Earth. It is the precise time at which the apparent ecliptic longitude of the Sun is zero. (Yes, the Sun's ecliptic longitude, not its declination, is used for the astronomical definition.) This precise time shifts within the civil calendar very slightly from year to year. In the ecclesiastical system the vernal equinox does not shift; it is fixed at March 21 regardless of the actual motion of the Sun.\n    * The date of Easter is a specific calendar date. Easter starts when that date starts