Barb received this email about Easter dates. Very interesting.
Easter this year.
Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full
moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20,
2008).
This 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.
Based on the above information, Easter can actually be
one day earlier (March 22) - that is rare.
This year is the earliest Easter any of us will
ever see the rest of our lives! And only the most
elderly of our population have ever seen it this early
(95 years old or above). And none of us have ever,
or will ever, see it a day earlier!
Here are the facts:
1) The next time Easter will be this early (March 23)
will be the year 2228 (220 years from n ow). 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!).
2) 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. So, no one
alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than
this year!
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