Each PFM is a one-date event world-wide. Easter Sunday is the date of the annual celebration of Christ's resurrection. The aim of the Easter Dating Method is to maintain, for each Easter Sunday, the same season of the year and the same relationship to the preceding astronomical full moon that occurred at the time of his resurrection in 30 A. This was achieved in A.
This replaced the original A. From 31 A. Easter Day was celebrated either: a on or just after the first day of the Jewish Passover no matter on which day of the week that Easter Day occurred , or b on a Sunday close to or on the first Passover Day. Both of these methods existed continuously throughout this period. Easter Sunday date was based on the Julian calendar in use at that time.
Precise information on this subject can be found on pages to of the Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Ephemeris. The Julian calendar was replaced by the Gregorian calendar in October to re-align March 20 and therefore Easter with the seasons by removing 10 dates October 5 to 14, This replacement did not occur until later in many countries e.
The Gregorian calendar very closely maintains the alignment of seasons and calendar dates by having leap years in only 1 of every 4 century years, namely, those divisible exactly by One additional February 29 date will need to be removed in about A. March 20 not March 21 is the most common Gregorian Equinox date from to A. Historically, references to March 21 have caused mistakes in calculating Easter Sunday dates.
March 20 has become the important date in recent Easter dating methods. Despite frequent references to March 21, this date has no special significance to any recent Easter dating methods. This procedure has been dramatically simplified by Ronald W.
Mallen, Adelaide, South Australia. See Finding Easter Sunday Dates with a Calculator for a clear and unique explanation of this procedure. Orthodox churches became fully autonomous in A. The Julian calendar date Thursday October 4, was followed by the Gregorian calendar date Friday October 15, The 10 dates October 5 to 14 were removed. Consequently, their Easter Sunday dates are identical up to , then from onwards often differ from those of Western churches.
For example, this occurred in because the Western Easter Sunday date of Gregorian calendar April 15, is the same as the Orthodox Easter Sunday date of Julian calendar April 2, In most years, Orthodox Easter follows Western Easter by one or more weeks. To determine the Orthodox Easter Sunday date, it is first necessary to find the Julian Easter Sunday date, then to add the number of days which have been "skipped" in the Gregorian calendar. This procedure is a dramatic and accurate simplification of the official procedure used to calculate Easter Sunday dates, as described in Christian Prayer Books.
Paschal Full Moon dates are copied directly from these Books. It was produced in by Ronald W. It requires just one division on a calculator, and three simple additions. If you're looking further into the future, click here to see another Table A for years to A. The result is March 21, A. You can also get the dates for the previous years and the next years. You can also get a printable easter date worksheet for kids to work out the date of easter in any year at all.
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
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