Easter 1913

Easter 1913: Sunday, March 23

In 1913 Western Easter, reckoned in the Gregorian calendar, falls on Sunday, March 23, 1913. Orthodox Easter (Pascha), reckoned in the Julian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 27, 1913, five weeks later.

Western Easter

Sunday, March 23, 1913

Gregorian computus. Golden number 14, epact 22, Paschal full moon March 22.

Orthodox Easter

Sunday, April 27, 1913

Julian computus: April 14 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.

In 1913 the two Easters are 35 days apart: Orthodox Easter is five weeks after Western Easter. They last fell on the same day in 1912 (April 7). They next fall on the same day in 1915 (April 4).

Western · Mar 23
Orthodox · Apr 27
MarchAprilMay
March 1 to May 31, 1913; each line is a Sunday. Upper band: the dates Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25. Lower band: the dates Orthodox Easter can take in 1913, April 4 to May 8 (Julian March 22 to April 25, plus 13 days). Western Easter: March 23. Orthodox Easter: April 27.

The moving feasts of 1913

Western feasts, 1913

FeastDateFrom Easter
Shrove TuesdayTuesday, February 4, 1913−47 days
Ash WednesdayWednesday, February 5, 1913−46 days
Palm SundaySunday, March 16, 1913−7 days
Maundy ThursdayThursday, March 20, 1913−3 days
Good FridayFriday, March 21, 1913−2 days
Holy SaturdaySaturday, March 22, 1913−1 day
Easter SundaySunday, March 23, 1913Easter Sunday
Easter MondayMonday, March 24, 1913+1 day
Ascension DayThursday, May 1, 1913+39 days
PentecostSunday, May 11, 1913+49 days

Orthodox feasts, 1913

FeastDateFrom Easter
Clean MondayMonday, March 10, 1913−48 days
Palm SundaySunday, April 20, 1913−7 days
Great and Holy FridayFriday, April 25, 1913−2 days
Pascha (Easter Sunday)Sunday, April 27, 1913Easter Sunday
AscensionThursday, June 5, 1913+39 days
PentecostSunday, June 15, 1913+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 1913?

March 23 is date 2 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 1 day after the earliest possible date and 33 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 0 fall on an earlier date than this one and 199 fall on a later date. One other year in that span shares the date: 2008. Before 1913, Western Easter last fell on March 23 in 1856; after 1913 it next does in 2008.

In the 1910s Western Easter ran from March 23 (1913) to April 23 (1916); 1913’s March 23 is the earliest of the ten. Across the twentieth century (1901–2000) Western Easter falls on March 23 in 1 year, and the Western and Orthodox Easters share a Sunday in 26 years.

Orthodox Easter on April 27 is April 14 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 1913. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 137 years and on a later one in 55 years; it falls on the same date in 1902, 1924, 1997, 2003, 2008, 2087, 2092, 2098.

The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.

The arithmetic for 1913

14Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (1913 mod 19) + 1.
22Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
March 22Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Saturday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 25Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 12), a Friday.

The two algorithms, worked for 1913

Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=13 b=19 c=13 d=4 e=3 f=1 g=6 h=1 i=3 k=1 l=0 m=0
h + l − 7m + 114 = 115, and 115 ÷ 31 = 3 remainder 22: month 3, day 22 + 1. March 23
Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=1 b=2 c=13 d=22 e=1
d + e + 114 = 137, and 137 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 13: Julian April 14. Plus 13 days: April 27

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.