Western Easter
Sunday, March 29, 1970
Gregorian computus. Golden number 14, epact 22, Paschal full moon March 22.
Easter 1970
Easter 1970: Sunday, March 29
In 1970 Western Easter, reckoned in the Gregorian calendar, falls on Sunday, March 29, 1970. Orthodox Easter (Pascha), reckoned in the Julian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 26, 1970, four weeks later.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 26, 1970
Julian computus: April 13 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
In 1970 the two Easters are 28 days apart: Orthodox Easter is four weeks 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 · Mar 29
Orthodox · Apr 26
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 1970
Western feasts, 1970
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, February 10, 1970 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, February 11, 1970 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, March 22, 1970 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, March 26, 1970 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, March 27, 1970 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, March 28, 1970 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, March 29, 1970 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, March 30, 1970 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 7, 1970 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, May 17, 1970 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 1970
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, March 9, 1970 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 19, 1970 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 24, 1970 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 26, 1970 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, June 4, 1970 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 14, 1970 | +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 1970?
March 29 is date 8 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 7 days after the earliest possible date and 27 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 22 fall on an earlier date than this one and 173 fall on a later date. 5 other years in that span share the date: 1959, 1964, 2043, 2054, 2065. Before 1970, Western Easter last fell on March 29 in 1964; after 1970 it next does in 2043.
In the 1970s Western Easter ran from March 26 (1978) to April 22 (1973); 1970’s March 29 is the second-earliest of the ten. Across the twentieth century (1901–2000) Western Easter falls on March 29 in 3 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 1970. 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 1908, 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 1970
14Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (1970 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 Sunday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 25Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian April 12), a Saturday.
The two algorithms, worked for 1970
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=13 b=19 c=70 d=4 e=3 f=1 g=6 h=1 i=17 k=2 l=6 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 121, and 121 ÷ 31 = 3 remainder 28: month 3, day 28 + 1. March 29- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=2 b=3 c=13 d=22 e=0d + 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.