The Calendar
What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.
Observed On This Date
Feast / celebration
The fortieth day of Eastertide, always a Thursday
The fortieth day of Eastertide counting Easter Day itself, always a Thursday.
Already Underway
Feast / celebration
The week following Pascha
Day 5 of 7
The week following Pascha.
Feast / celebration
The fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost, kept as a single festal season
Day 40 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.