Western Easter
Sunday, April 19, 1908
Gregorian computus. Golden number 9, epact 27, Paschal full moon April 16.
Easter 1908
Easter 1908: Sunday, April 19
In 1908 Western Easter, reckoned in the Gregorian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 19, 1908. Orthodox Easter (Pascha), reckoned in the Julian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 26, 1908, one week later.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 26, 1908
Julian computus: April 13 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
In 1908 the two Easters are 7 days apart: Orthodox Easter is one week after Western Easter. They last fell on the same day in 1906 (April 15). They next fall on the same day in 1909 (April 11).
Western · Apr 19
Orthodox · Apr 26
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 1908
Western feasts, 1908
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, March 3, 1908 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, March 4, 1908 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 12, 1908 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 16, 1908 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 17, 1908 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 18, 1908 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 19, 1908 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 20, 1908 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 28, 1908 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 7, 1908 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 1908
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, March 9, 1908 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 19, 1908 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 24, 1908 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 26, 1908 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, June 4, 1908 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 14, 1908 | +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 1908?
April 19 is date 29 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 28 days after the earliest possible date and 6 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 166 fall on an earlier date than this one and 28 fall on a later date. 6 other years in that span share the date: 1981, 1987, 1992, 2071, 2076, 2082. Before 1908, Western Easter last fell on April 19 in 1840; after 1908 it next does in 1981.
In the 1900s Western Easter ran from March 30 (1902) to April 23 (1905); 1908’s April 19 is the ninth-earliest of the ten. Across the twentieth century (1901–2000) Western Easter falls on April 19 in 4 years, and the Western and Orthodox Easters share a Sunday in 26 years.
Orthodox Easter on April 26 is April 13 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 1908. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 131 years and on a later one in 64 years; it falls on the same date in 1970, 1981, 1992, 2065, 2076.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 1908
9Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (1908 mod 19) + 1.
27Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 16Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Thursday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 20Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 7), a Monday.
The two algorithms, worked for 1908
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=8 b=19 c=8 d=4 e=3 f=1 g=6 h=26 i=2 k=0 l=2 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 142, and 142 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 18: month 4, day 18 + 1. April 19- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=0 b=4 c=8 d=17 e=5d + e + 114 = 136, and 136 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 12: Julian April 13. Plus 13 days: April 26
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.