Last Time Easter Fell On April 9, As It Is This Year (i.e., 2023), Was 73-Years Ago, In 1950! WOW!

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by Anura Guruge
on April 2, 2023

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Click to ENLARGE.
Click to ENLARGE. Years when Easter has been on April 9. Note, last time was 1950 — an incredible 73-years ago.
Click to ENLARGE. Dates of Easter 2010 to 2030.

This is pretty incredible & humbling. 73-years!

That means that even I, as old as I am, have never seen an April 9 Easter before. Wow. A 73-year gap is unusual to say the least. Last year’s 62-year gap between April 17 Easters seemed special at the time, but now we have added 11 more years to that. You can see from second image (above) that quite often the gap is 11 years.

Easter, your quintessential ‘movable feast’ can fall between March 22 (since it HAS to be after the ECCLESIASTICAL Spring Equinox which is always March 21) and April 25 (i.e., essentially the end of the 28-day lunar month).

So, this year’s April 9 Easter is towards the early part of that range. Note that the last 6 Easters have all been in April, albeit with the dates spread between April 1 (2018) & April 21 (2019). That alone shows you how the dates can jump around.

Easter is next Sunday.

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