Western Easter
Sunday, April 7, 1996
Gregorian computus. Golden number 2, epact 10, Paschal full moon April 3.
Easter 1996
Easter 1996: Sunday, April 7
In 1996 Western Easter, reckoned in the Gregorian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 7, 1996. Orthodox Easter (Pascha), reckoned in the Julian calendar, falls on Sunday, April 14, 1996, one week later.
Orthodox Easter
Sunday, April 14, 1996
Julian computus: April 1 in the Julian calendar, plus 13 days to reach the Gregorian calendar.
In 1996 the two Easters are 7 days apart: Orthodox Easter is one week after Western Easter. They last fell on the same day in 1990 (April 15). They next fall on the same day in 2001 (April 15).
Western · Apr 7
Orthodox · Apr 14
MarchAprilMayThe moving feasts of 1996
Western feasts, 1996
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday, February 20, 1996 | −47 days |
| Ash Wednesday | Wednesday, February 21, 1996 | −46 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, March 31, 1996 | −7 days |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday, April 4, 1996 | −3 days |
| Good Friday | Friday, April 5, 1996 | −2 days |
| Holy Saturday | Saturday, April 6, 1996 | −1 day |
| Easter Sunday | Sunday, April 7, 1996 | Easter Sunday |
| Easter Monday | Monday, April 8, 1996 | +1 day |
| Ascension Day | Thursday, May 16, 1996 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, May 26, 1996 | +49 days |
Orthodox feasts, 1996
| Feast | Date | From Easter |
|---|---|---|
| Clean Monday | Monday, February 26, 1996 | −48 days |
| Palm Sunday | Sunday, April 7, 1996 | −7 days |
| Great and Holy Friday | Friday, April 12, 1996 | −2 days |
| Pascha (Easter Sunday) | Sunday, April 14, 1996 | Easter Sunday |
| Ascension | Thursday, May 23, 1996 | +39 days |
| Pentecost | Sunday, June 2, 1996 | +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 1996?
April 7 is date 17 of the 35 that Western Easter can take, March 22 to April 25: 16 days after the earliest possible date and 18 days before the latest. Of the 201 Easters from 1900 to 2100, 85 fall on an earlier date than this one and 110 fall on a later date. 5 other years in that span share the date: 1901, 1912, 1985, 2075, 2080. Before 1996, Western Easter last fell on April 7 in 1985; after 1996 it next does in 2075.
In the 1990s Western Easter ran from March 30 (1997) to April 19 (1992); 1996’s April 7 is the fifth-earliest of the ten. Across the twentieth century (1901–2000) Western Easter falls on April 7 in 4 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 1996. 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, 1974, 1985, 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 1996
2Golden number: the year’s place in the 19-year cycle of the moon, (1996 mod 19) + 1.
10Gregorian epact: the age of the reckoned moon at the start of the year.
April 3Paschal full moon of the Gregorian reckoning, a Wednesday. Easter is the Sunday after it.
April 7Paschal full moon of the Julian reckoning in Gregorian dates (Julian March 25), a Sunday.
The two algorithms, worked for 1996
- Western: the Anonymous Gregorian algorithm
a=1 b=19 c=96 d=4 e=3 f=1 g=6 h=13 i=24 k=0 l=3 m=0h + l − 7m + 114 = 130, and 130 ÷ 31 = 4 remainder 6: month 4, day 6 + 1. April 7- Orthodox: Meeus’s Julian algorithm
a=0 b=1 c=1 d=4 e=6d + 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.