* Easter, or Resurrection Day ( Christians )-celebrated the First Sunday after the first full moon on or after the Spring Equinox, near March 21st ( between March 22 and April 25 )

* There then follows the Frühjahrsmarkt ( Spring market ) two weeks before Easter, when all the shops in the town are permitted to open on Sunday ( which is normally prohibited in Bavaria ).

* 1887 – On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.

** The latest possible date for Easter Sunday, last in 1943.

From then on retail trade is only restricted on public holidays ( New Years Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Day of Prayer, Ascension Day, Whit Sunday, Whit Monday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day ) and on Constitution Day, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve ( on New Year's Eve from 3 pm only ).

There is here given the whole service for every Sunday and week-day, the proper antiphons, responsories, hymns, and especially the course of daily Scripture-reading, averaging about twenty verses a day, and ( roughly ) arranged thus: for Advent, Isaiah ; Epiphany to Septuagesima, Pauline Epistles ; Lent, patristic homilies ( Genesis on Sundays ); Passion-tide, Jeremiah ; Easter to Whitsun, Acts, Catholic epistles and Apocalypse ; Whitsun to August, Samuel and Kings ; August to Advent, Wisdom books, Maccabees, Prophets.

Jesus ' death and resurrection are commemorated by Christians in all worship services, with special emphasis during Holy Week which includes Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

Calculating the calendar of a previous year ( for the Gregorian calendar taking account of the week ) is a relatively easy matter when Easter Sunday is not included on the calendar.

However, calculating for Easter Sunday is difficult because the calculation depends on the full moon cycle.

Easter Sunday represents the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox according to the computus.

There are only 14 different calendars when Easter Sunday is not involved.

However, when Easter Sunday is included, there are 70 different calendars ( two for each date of Easter ).

On Easter Sunday, 31 March 1991, the first fatal clashes occurred when Croatian police from the Croatian Ministry of the Interior ( MUP ) entered the Plitvice Lakes national park to expel rebel Serb forces.

On Palm Sunday, 1084, Henry IV solemnly enthroned Clement at St. Peter ’ s Basilica and on Easter Day, Clement returned the favor and crowned Henry IV as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

A tradition exists in some parts of the United Kingdom ( such as Scotland and North East England ) of rolling painted eggs down steep hills on Easter Sunday.

Easter is followed by a fifty-day period called Eastertide or the Easter Season, ending with Pentecost Sunday.

The festival is referred to in English by a variety of different names including Easter Day, Easter Sunday, Resurrection Day and Resurrection Sunday.

Times like Easter, Christmas, Candlemas, and All Souls ' Day are also special days in which the relatives and friends of the deceased gather to honor them with flowers and candles.

Slavs bring Easter baskets filled with eggs, meat, butter, and cheese — foods from which the faithful have abstained during Great Lent -- to be blessed by the priest which are then taken back home to be shared by family and friends with joy.

Students are given three weeks off for Christmas following fall semester, one week off following Jan-Term ( which many students use to visit friends at other colleges, many of whom do not have a week off in January ), and one week in the middle of spring semester for Easter.

On 8 April 2012, Easter Sunday, BFBS simulcast a two hour show with Smooth, presented jointly by Simon Bates and BFBS's Rachel Cochrane allowing family and friends of serving troops to connect with their loved ones.

During an Easter celebration in New Hampshire in 1978, she and some friends interfered with firemen who were attempting to extinguish a bonfire.

The main subject at breakfast had been the impending visit of some friends for Easter, to which Edith was looking forward.

The original trio, comprising Easter ( vocals / guitar ), Faye Hunter ( bass ), and Sara Romweber ( drums ), played their first performance with their friends R. E. M.

On Easter Sunday, 1999, McConnell died unexpectedly while on a camping trip in the back fields before being resurrected by his retarded friends Christopher Storey Herdman and Megan Kate Trout Martin on the January 1st 2000.

Burra and his family and friends gather together for a wonderful time painting Easter eggs to give to the children and ask for their help.

On 8 April 2012, Easter Sunday, the forces broadcaster BFBS simulcast a two hour show with Smooth, presented jointly by Simon Bates and BFBS's Rachel Cochrane allowing family and friends of serving troops to connect with their loved ones.

Against the wishes of all his friends, Tonio vows to return in time for an Easter opera, then disappears.

His older brother, Frank, joined the British Army at the outbreak of World War I. O ' Malley was studying medicine at University College Dublin in 1916 when the Easter Rising convulsed the city, and he was almost persuaded by some unionist friends to join them in defending Trinity College, Dublin from the rebels should they attempt to take it.

But whenever a major purchase was contemplated forty years ago -- a new bedroom set or a winter coat, an Easter bonnet, a bicycle for Junior -- the family set off for the downtown department store, where the selection would be greatest.

While all other candidates from the Rome diocese were ordained in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, Pacelli was ordained a priest on Easter Sunday, 2 April 1899 alone in the private chapel of a family friend the Vice-Regent of Rome, Mgr Paolo Cassetta.

He proposed that the plot focus on the conflict between an Irish American Roman Catholic family and a Jewish family living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, during the Easter – Passover season.

" Petrov also said that Gagarin had been baptised into the Orthodox Church as a child, and a 2011 Foma magazine article quoted the rector of the Orthodox church in Star City saying, " Gagarin baptized his elder daughter Elena shortly before his space flight ; and his family used to celebrate Christmas and Easter and keep icons in the house.

Heyerdahl died on April 18, 2002, in Colla Micheri in Italy where he had gone to spend the Easter holidays with some of his closest family members.

In 1827 Proudhon began an apprenticeship at a printing press in the house of Bellevaux, in Battant ; on Easter of the following year, he transferred to a press in Besançon owned by the family of one of his schoolmates, Antoine Gauthier.

Malayo-Polynesian languages are now spoken across a huge area from Madagascar to Hawaii, Easter Island and New Zealand, but form only one branch of the Austronesian family, the rest of whose branches are found only on Taiwan.

The name Zaharoff was adopted when the family was in exile in Russia as a result of the anti-Greek " Easter pogroms " of 1821.

Alvy feels strange when they visit her family in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, for Easter.

On Easter Sunday the peasant family perhaps might owe an extra dozen eggs, and at Christmas a goose was perhaps required too.

* The Glory Of Easter at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California is an extremely popular passion play and family tradition to Southern Californians.

The carnival and Easter offer more opportunities for family gatherings and dancing.

On this Easter Sunday, Dilsey takes her family and Benjy to the ' colored ' church.

He flew down to Palm Beach, Florida, on April 19 for Easter, where several members of the Kennedy family had gathered.

He is the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross and the fifth generation of the Sinclair family to represent the Caithness area in the House of Commons.

Set mainly in the first half of the twentieth century in the years leading to the Irish Easter Rising, it tells the stories of the Irish revolutionary Conor Larkin's family, his brothers Liam and Dary, and Liam's son Rory.

Since inception in 2001, increasing numbers have donated blood usually through groups such as Christian solidarity missions, or family Bar-Bat Mitzvas, especially during seasonal traditional pilgrimage times, such as Passover and Easter.

On Easter Sunday, Mandela phoned to thank Woods ' family for the tie and said that he would wear it at the concert the next day, which he did.

The boys finally arrive on Easter morning and shout their greetings across the glen to their family during a lakeside Easter Sunrise service, much to the amusement of Ralph's younger sister Beth ( Winona Ryder ) and mother Ev ( Joanna Cassidy ) and embarrassment of Scott's mother Jessie ( Mariette Hartley ) and father Cliff ( Bruce Dern ).

But he took no apparent notice of her at the wedding of his sister Anne to the Duke of Aosta at Naples in 1927, but finally began to pay some attention to her when she joined her parents for a visit to his parents ' home, the Manoir d ' Anjou, in Brussels over Easter in 1928, and still more at a family reunion in July 1929.