Western Easter
Sunday, April 3, 1904
Gregorian computus. Golden number 5, epact 13, Paschal full moon March 31.
Easter 1904
Easter 1904: Sunday, April 3
In 1904 Western Easter, reckoned in the Gregorian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 3, 1904. Orthodox Easter (Pascha), reckoned in the Julian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 10, 1904, one week later.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 10, 1904
Julian computus: March 28 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
In 1904 the two Easters are 7 days apart: Orthodox Easter is one week after Western Easter. They last fell on the same day in 1896 (April 5). They next fall on the same day in 1906 (April 15).
Western · Apr 3
Orthodox · Apr 10
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 1904
Western feasts, 1904
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, February 16, 1904 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, February 17, 1904 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, March 27, 1904 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, March 31, 1904 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 1, 1904 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 2, 1904 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 3, 1904 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 4, 1904 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 12, 1904 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, May 22, 1904 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 1904
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, February 22, 1904 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 3, 1904 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 8, 1904 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 10, 1904 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, May 19, 1904 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, May 29, 1904 | +49 days |
Each date is Easter Sunday plus or minus a fixed number of days; the offsets and their sources are on the about page. Observance varies by church and by country. Whether a feast is a day off work is a matter of each country’s law: Holidays lists each country’s public holidays, off the open Nager.Date database.
How early is Easter in 1904?
April 3 is date 13 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 12 days after the earliest possible date and 22 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 56 fall on an earlier date than this one and 138 fall on a later date. 6 other years in that span share the date: 1983, 1988, 1994, 2067, 2078, 2089. Before 1904, Western Easter last fell on April 3 in 1836; after 1904 it next does in 1983.
In the 1900s Western Easter ran from March 30 (1902) to April 23 (1905); 1904’s April 3 is the third-earliest of the ten. Across the twentieth century (1901–2000) Western Easter falls on April 3 in 4 years, and the Western and Orthodox Easters share a Sunday in 26 years.
Orthodox Easter on April 10 is March 28 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 1904. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 24 years and on a later one in 170 years; it falls on the same date in 1966, 1977, 1988, 2061, 2067, 2072.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 1904
5Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (1904 mod 19) + 1.
13Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
March 31Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Thursday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 4Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian March 22), a Monday.
The two algorithms, worked for 1904
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=4 b=19 c=4 d=4 e=3 f=1 g=6 h=10 i=1 k=0 l=2 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 126, and 126 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 2: month 4, day 2 + 1. April 3- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=0 b=0 c=4 d=1 e=5d + e + 114 = 120, and 120 ÷ 31 = 3 remainder 27: Julian March 28. Plus 13 days: April 10
How the date of Easter is calculated explains each letter. The dates on this page agree with the US Census Bureau table (Western), the 5ko.free.fr tables (Western and Orthodox), each read September 28, 2026.