Most holidays are celebrated on the same day every year − but not Easter. The Christian holiday, which celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ, occurs on a different Sunday every spring. With the ...

Today belongs to the pranksters. Historians believe the day came into existence when France implemented the Gregorian ...

The holiday of Pesach, or Passover, falls on the Hebrew calendar dates of Nissan 15-22. Passover begins before sundown on ...

In Eastern or Orthodox churches, Easter's date is often different because the date relies on the Julian calendar, and ...

April Fools’ Day is most often attributed to France’s switch from the Julian calendar, to the Gregorian calendar in the 1500s ...

A calendar notation in which the date is represented by one number. For example, the Julian date for December 11, 1942 is 2430705; while December 12, 1942 is 2430706. The Julian date is widely ...

In Eastern or Orthodox churches, Easter's date is often different because the date relies on the Julian calendar, and Orthodox Christians do not celebrate Easter during Passover, but always after.