Western Easter
Sunday, April 14, 1974
Gregorian computus. Golden number 18, epact 6, Paschal full moon April 7.
Easter 1974
Easter 1974: Sunday, April 14
In 1974 Easter falls on Sunday, April 14, 1974 for Western and Orthodox churches alike: the Gregorian and the Julian reckoning arrive at the same Sunday.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 14, 1974
Julian computus: April 1 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
Both Easters fall on April 14 in 1974. They last fell on the same day in 1966 (April 10). They next fall on the same day in 1977 (April 10).
Western · Apr 14
Orthodox · Apr 14
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 1974
Western feasts, 1974
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, February 26, 1974 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, February 27, 1974 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 7, 1974 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 11, 1974 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 12, 1974 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 13, 1974 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 14, 1974 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 15, 1974 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 23, 1974 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 2, 1974 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 1974
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, February 25, 1974 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 7, 1974 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 12, 1974 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 14, 1974 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, May 23, 1974 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 2, 1974 | +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 1974?
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, 1968, 2047, 2058, 2069. Before 1974, Western Easter last fell on April 14 in 1968; after 1974 it next does in 2047.
In the 1970s Western Easter ran from March 26 (1978) to April 22 (1973); 1974’s April 14 is the seventh-earliest of the ten. 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 14 is April 1 in the Julian calendar; 13 days carry it to the Gregorian calendar in 1974. From 1900 to 2100 Orthodox Easter falls on an earlier Gregorian date in 49 years and on a later one in 144 years; it falls on the same date in 1901, 1963, 1985, 1996, 2058, 2069, 2080.
The earliest and latest Easters from 1900 to 2100, with how often each date occurs, are on their own page.
The arithmetic for 1974
18Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (1974 mod 19) + 1.
6Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 7Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Sunday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 11Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian March 29), a Thursday.
The two algorithms, worked for 1974
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=17 b=19 c=74 d=4 e=3 f=1 g=6 h=17 i=18 k=2 l=6 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=2 b=0 c=17 d=8 e=2d + e + 114 = 124, and 124 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 0: Julian April 1. Plus 13 days: April 14
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.