print email comment close The Date of Easter URL: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/easter.php Description: "The usual statement, that Easter Day is the first Sunday after the full moon that occurs next after the vernal equinox, is not a precise statement of the actual ecclesiastical rules." This site gives the rules, a chart of the dates of Easter for the years 1980-2024, and an algorithm that "will compute the date of Easter in the Gregorian Calendar system." From the U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department. Publisher: U.S. Naval Observatory Library of Congress Subject Headings: Church year Easter LII classic content LII Database Information: Record 5934 created by Martha Gifford on 02/07/2002 Last modification on 09/12/2007 Published: 02/07/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/5934