Western Easter
Sunday, April 14, 1968
Gregorian computus. Golden number 12, epact 30, Paschal full moon April 13.
Easter 1968
Easter 1968: Sunday, April 14
In 1968 Western Easter, reckoned in the Gregorian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 14, 1968. Orthodox Easter (Pascha), reckoned in the Julian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 21, 1968, one week later.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 21, 1968
Julian computus: April 8 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
In 1968 the two Easters are 7 days apart: Orthodox Easter is one week after Western Easter. They last fell on the same day in 1966 (April 10). They next fall on the same day in 1974 (April 14).
Western · Apr 14
Orthodox · Apr 21
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 1968
Western feasts, 1968
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, February 27, 1968 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, February 28, 1968 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 7, 1968 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 11, 1968 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 12, 1968 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 13, 1968 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 14, 1968 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 15, 1968 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 23, 1968 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 2, 1968 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 1968
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, March 4, 1968 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 14, 1968 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 19, 1968 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 21, 1968 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, May 30, 1968 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 9, 1968 | +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 1968?
April 14 is date 24 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 23 days after the earliest possible date and 11 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 130 fall on an earlier date than this one and 65 fall on a later date. 5 other years in that span share the date: 1963, 1974, 2047, 2058, 2069. Before 1968, Western Easter last fell on April 14 in 1963; after 1968 it next does in 1974.
In the 1960s Western Easter ran from March 26 (1967) to April 22 (1962); 1968’s April 14 is the sixth-earliest of the ten, level with 1963. Across the twentieth century (1901–2000) Western Easter falls on April 14 in 3 years, and the Western and Orthodox Easters share a Sunday in 26 years.
Orthodox Easter on April 21 is April 8 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 1968. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 99 years and on a later one in 96 years; it falls on the same date in 1946, 1957, 2041, 2047, 2052.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 1968
12Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (1968 mod 19) + 1.
30Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 13Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Saturday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 17Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 4), a Wednesday.
The two algorithms, worked for 1968
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=11 b=19 c=68 d=4 e=3 f=1 g=6 h=23 i=17 k=0 l=0 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 137, and 137 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 13: month 4, day 13 + 1. April 14- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=0 b=1 c=11 d=14 e=3d + e + 114 = 131, and 131 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 7: Julian April 8. Plus 13 days: April 21
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.