The Calendar
What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.
Observed On This Date
Linked multi-day sequence forming the year's summit observance
From the evening Mass of the Lord's Supper on Maundy Thursday, through Good Friday and Holy Saturday, to evening prayer on Easter Sunday
Day 1 of 3
Already Underway
New year
13 to 15 April, timed to the sun's entry into Aries in the traditional solar calendar.
Day 2 of 3
Commemoration of a person or event
1 Vaisakh: 14 April in the Nanakshahi calendar
Day 2 of 2
13 or 14 April depending on the year.
Penitential season
From Palm Sunday to Holy Saturday, the week before Easter
Day 5 of 7
Fast / abstinence
The forty days from Ash Wednesday to Holy Thursday, Sundays not counted
Day 44 of 46
Forty days, counted excluding Sundays, which is why the span is forty-six.
Fast / abstinence
The whole of Ramadan, the ninth month
Day 13 of 29
Tabular reckoning, and stored as twenty-nine days so the month can never be reported as running into Eid al-Fitr. The month is twenty-nine or thirty days and begins on a sighted crescent in most communities.
This Week In Space and Astronomy History
Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.