Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1901 — Easter in the New Century. [ARTICLE]

Easter in the New Century.

In the century just begun there will be 5,217 Sundays. Easter this year.came on April 7. The earliest date on which Easter can come is March 22, and the last it occured on that day was in 1818, but this will not recur till the 23rd century. The earliest Easter in the new century will be March 23, 1913. Easter Sunday will fall once on its latest day, April 25, in 1943. This also occured once in the century just passed—in 1866. Ascension day is practically always in May, but on three occasions in the past cehturyit occured in June and in the new century this will happen four times.