Western Easter
Sunday, April 4, 1926
Gregorian computus. Golden number 8, epact 16, Paschal full moon March 28.
Easter 1926
Easter 1926: Sunday, April 4
In 1926 Western Easter, reckoned in the Gregorian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 4, 1926. Orthodox Easter (Pascha), reckoned in the Julian calendar, falls on Sunday, May 2, 1926, four weeks later.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, May 2, 1926
Julian computus: April 19 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
In 1926 the two Easters are 28 days apart: Orthodox Easter is four weeks after Western Easter. They last fell on the same day in 1922 (April 16). They next fall on the same day in 1930 (April 20).
Western · Apr 4
Orthodox · May 2
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 1926
Western feasts, 1926
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, February 16, 1926 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, February 17, 1926 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, March 28, 1926 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 1, 1926 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 2, 1926 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 3, 1926 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 4, 1926 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 5, 1926 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 13, 1926 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, May 23, 1926 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 1926
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, March 15, 1926 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 25, 1926 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 30, 1926 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, May 2, 1926 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, June 10, 1926 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 20, 1926 | +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 1926?
April 4 is date 14 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 13 days after the earliest possible date and 21 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 63 fall on an earlier date than this one and 130 fall on a later date. 7 other years in that span share the date: 1915, 1920, 1999, 2010, 2021, 2083, 2094. Before 1926, Western Easter last fell on April 4 in 1920; after 1926 it next does in 1999.
In the 1920s Western Easter ran from March 27 (1921) to April 20 (1924); 1926’s April 4 is the fourth-earliest of the ten, level with 1920. Across the twentieth century (1901–2000) Western Easter falls on April 4 in 4 years, and the Western and Orthodox Easters share a Sunday in 26 years.
Orthodox Easter on May 2 is April 19 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 1926. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 172 years and on a later one in 22 years; it falls on the same date in 1937, 1948, 2021, 2027, 2032, 2100.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 1926
8Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (1926 mod 19) + 1.
16Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
March 28Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Sunday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
May 1Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 18), a Saturday.
The two algorithms, worked for 1926
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=7 b=19 c=26 d=4 e=3 f=1 g=6 h=7 i=6 k=2 l=6 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 127, and 127 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 3: month 4, day 3 + 1. April 4- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=2 b=1 c=7 d=28 e=0d + e + 114 = 142, and 142 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 18: Julian April 19. Plus 13 days: May 2
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.