Easter, so there

The date of this coming Easter is quite early this year.  Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20).  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.

Here’s the interesting info.

• 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 now.
2. 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!
3. The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285 (277 years from now).
4. The last time it was on March 22 was 1818.
5. So, no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year!

You can also look up the dates of Easter here: Frequency of the Date of Easter 1875 to 2124.  This has always been a topic of discussion in my family because my mother was born on Easter, has had a birthday on Easter only one other time in her life, and it will only occur again in her lifetime if she lives to be eighty-nine.  Go Mom!