The Calendar
What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.
Observed On This Date
Feast / celebration
The week following Pascha
Day 1 of 7
The week following Pascha.
Feast / celebration
The first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon falling on or after 21 March, by the Gregorian computus
Orthodox reckoning, from the Julian computus. The two coincide in some years and are five weeks apart in others.
Already Underway
Feast / celebration
The fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost, kept as a single festal season
Day 36 of 50
This Week In Language History
Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.