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March 18, 2008


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Easter Date Won’t Repeat for 220 Years

The date of Easter is quite early this year – March 23.

Easter is always the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox, which is March 20. The dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people used to identify Passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman calendar.

This year is the earliest Easter anyone living now will see for the rest of their lives! And only the most elderly of the population have ever seen it this year (95 years old or above!) And none of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier!

The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2228 (220 years from now). The last time it was this early was 1913 (so if you’re 95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for that!)

The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285 (277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was 1818.

The cycle of Easter dates repeats after exactly 5,700,000 years, with April 19 being the most common date.

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