Western Easter
Sunday, April 23, 1916
Gregorian computus. Golden number 17, epact 25, Paschal full moon April 17.
Easter 1916
Easter 1916: Sunday, April 23
In 1916 Easter falls on Sunday, April 23, 1916 for Western and Orthodox churches alike: the Gregorian and the Julian reckoning arrive at the same Sunday.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 23, 1916
Julian computus: April 10 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
Both Easters fall on April 23 in 1916. They last fell on the same day in 1915 (April 4). They next fall on the same day in 1919 (April 20).
Western · Apr 23
Orthodox · Apr 23
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 1916
Western feasts, 1916
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, March 7, 1916 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, March 8, 1916 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 16, 1916 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 20, 1916 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 21, 1916 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 22, 1916 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 23, 1916 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 24, 1916 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, June 1, 1916 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 11, 1916 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 1916
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, March 6, 1916 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 16, 1916 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 21, 1916 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 23, 1916 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, June 1, 1916 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 11, 1916 | +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 1916?
April 23 is date 33 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 32 days after the earliest possible date and 2 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 193 fall on an earlier date than this one and 4 fall on a later date. 3 other years in that span share the date: 1905, 2000, 2079. Before 1916, Western Easter last fell on April 23 in 1905; after 1916 it next does in 2000.
In the 1910s Western Easter ran from March 23 (1913) to April 23 (1916); 1916’s April 23 is the latest of the ten. Across the twentieth century (1901–2000) Western Easter falls on April 23 in 3 years, and the Western and Orthodox Easters share a Sunday in 26 years.
Orthodox Easter on April 23 is April 10 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 1916. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 110 years and on a later one in 85 years; it falls on the same date in 1911, 1995, 2006, 2079, 2090.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 1916
17Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (1916 mod 19) + 1.
25Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 17Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Monday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 22Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 9), a Saturday.
The two algorithms, worked for 1916
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=16 b=19 c=16 d=4 e=3 f=1 g=6 h=28 i=4 k=0 l=4 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 146, and 146 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 22: month 4, day 22 + 1. April 23- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=0 b=5 c=16 d=19 e=0d + e + 114 = 133, and 133 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 9: Julian April 10. Plus 13 days: April 23
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.