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 ).

Charlton's relegation from the Championship was all but confirmed on Easter Monday ( 13 April ) when, despite picking up a point in a 0 – 0 draw at Coventry, they found themselves 12 points from safety with four games remaining.

The following day, Easter Monday, is a legal holiday in many countries with predominantly Christian traditions.

In some countries, Easter lasts two days, with the second called " Easter Monday ".

The week beginning with Easter Sunday is called Easter Week or the Octave of Easter, and each day is prefaced with " Easter ", e. g. Easter Monday, Easter Tuesday, etc.

Organised by the Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Rising lasted from Easter Monday 24 to 30 April 1916.

It was decided to postpone action until after Easter Monday, and in the meantime Nathan telegraphed the Chief Secretary, Augustine Birrell, in London seeking his approval.

* Earliest day on which Clean Monday can fall, while March 15 is the latest ; celebrated on the first Monday before Easter.

The May Day bank holiday, on the first Monday in May, was traditionally the only one to affect the state school calendar, although new arrangements in some areas to even out the length of school terms mean that the Good Friday and Easter Monday bank holidays, which vary from year to year, may also fall during term time.

* Earliest day on which Easter Monday can fall, while April 26 is the latest ; celebrated on Monday after Easter.

* Shrove Monday – 48 days before Easter.

Gifts of chocolate molded into different shapes have become traditional on certain holidays: chocolate bunnies and eggs are popular on Easter, chocolate coins on Hanukkah, Santa Claus and other holiday symbols on Christmas, and chocolate hearts or chocolate in heart-shaped boxes on Valentine's Day.

In Egypt, it's a tradition to decorate boiled eggs during Sham el-Nessim holiday, which falls every year after the Eastern Christian Easter.

Easter () or Pascha (, Paskha ; Pasḥa ; from Pesaḥ ) is a Christian festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion at Calvary as described in the New Testament.

These are now sold in most grocery stores and bakeries preceding the holiday, and up until Easter.

The holiday was also one of the three days each year ( along with Christmas and Easter ) Roman Catholics were required to confess and receive the sacrament of Holy Communion in order to remain in good church standing.

The holiday is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday, and may coincide with the Jewish observance of Passover.

Similar contests are put on by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and the Seattle Times > These contests frequently correspond with the Easter holiday.

Early Christians had probably originally celebrated Easter concurrent with the Jewish Passover ( see Passover, Christian holiday ), which was held on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month of the Jewish year, called Nisan, the day of the crucifixion according to.

In Egypt, it's a tradition to decorate boiled eggs during Sham el-Nessim, a spring-ushering national holiday celebrated by Egyptians regardless of religion, which falls every year after the Eastern Christian Easter.

The cliff is surmounted by a 50 foot electric framework for a Christmas Star and Easter Cross that are visible for miles during holiday nights.

This holiday occurs seven weeks before Easter Sunday, with children dressing up in costumes and gathering treats for the Fastelavn feast.

Easter is an extended public holiday in Australia accompanied by many public events.

All retail businesses in the states, regardless of size or product offer are able to stipulate their trading hours to suit their individual customer demand ( although they are required to remain closed on Christmas Day, Good Friday, and ( in Tasmania and NSW only ) on Easter Sunday, except the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory, which can remain open on any public holiday ).

The man ( probably Wiltshire trader William Dell, also on holiday ) turned up to the shop with a huge wad of rubber-banded bank notes and proceeded to spoil his trailer load of children with Easter eggs and ice creams.

Its roles in society and larger role in overarching Greek culture are very important ; a number of Greeks attend Church at least once a month or more and the Orthodox Easter holiday holds special significance.

Easter does not have a week of holiday, schools are only closed on Good Friday and Easter Monday.

These are often regional, associated with the older generations or confined to a specific holiday ( for example, mämmi in Easter or most Christmas dishes ), and most people eat them rarely or not at all.

Demand for accommodation is very high during the summer months, with ballots held annually for accommodation during the January and Easter school holiday periods.

Easter Sunday and Pentecost are Sundays that form part of a main holiday and they are preceded by a kind of special Saturdays.

Other innovations have included holiday gift packs for Christmas, Easter, St Patricks Day, and Valentine's Day.

Easter Monday or Anjo festival is considered to be the second " municipal holiday ".

Weston-super-Mare beach seen from the Grand Pier, showing the popularity of the town as a tourist destination on the Easter bank holiday weekend

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.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone ( DMZ ) of South Vietnam.

* 1972 – Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months.

This campaign, which included the burning and destruction of part of the countryside that the royal forces marched through, is usually known as the " Harrying of the North "; it was over by April 1070, when William wore his crown ceremonially for Easter at Winchester.

* March 30 – Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone ( DMZ ) of South Vietnam.

** North Northern – Caithness, Easter Ross and the Black Isle.

The 1972 Easter Offensive was a direct North Vietnamese attack across the demilitarized zone between North and South.

Seasonal train rides include: Easter Train, Robbery Trains, North Pole Express, Fall Foliage Trips, Haunted Hills Train, Santa Train, Caboose Train, Great Hocking Valley Train Pull and wine trains.

Easter Road is an all-seated stadium, split into four geographic sections, known as the Famous Five ( formerly North ), East, South and West Stands.

While still only pope-elect, John, with the other bishops of the Catholic Church, wrote to the clergy of the North of Ireland to tell them of the mistakes they were making with regard to the time of keeping Easter, and exhort them to be on their guard against the Pelagian heresy.

Blount was born on Easter Sunday at Rosefield, the home of his maternal grandfather, John Gray, near Windsor in Bertie County, North Carolina.

* Conceptivae were annual holidays that were moveable feasts ( like Easter on the Christian calendar, or Thanksgiving in North America ); the date was announced by the magistrates or priests who were responsible for them.

Easter Monday was a public holiday in North Carolina from 1935 to 1987.

Rhino's soundtrack releases include Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Easter Parade, North by Northwest, Casablanca, King Kong, Doctor Zhivago, Superman, and Finian's Rainbow.

The nearby Easter Aquorthies and the stone circle at Newseat recumbent stone circle are fine examples of the rich history of the North East of Scotland, ancient monuments dating back to the 3rd Millennium BC.

On the North Sea ( eastern side ) of the area the major firths are the Beauly Firth and the ( Inner ) Moray Firth, which mark off the Black Isle from Inverness-shire, the Cromarty Firth, which bounds the districts of Easter Ross and the Black Isle, the Moray Firth, separating Easter Ross from Nairnshire, and the Dornoch Firth, dividing north-east Ross from Sutherland.

* Col. John W. Ripley, the first U. S. Marine to be inducted into the Ranger Hall of Fame, as well as being awarded the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism in destroying the Dong Ha bridge during the April 1972 North Vietnamese Easter Offensive.

During the North Vietnamese Army ( NVA ) Easter Offensive in 1972, tank clashes between NVA T-54 / PT-76 and ARVN M48 / M41 units became commonplace.

Beyond Mio Ness at the south west tip of Housay are North and South Benelip and the Easter Skerries, as well as Filla, Short & Long Guen ( the Guens ), Bilia Skerry, and Swaba Stack.

Born in North Wiltshire, Prince Edward Island, the son of A. Leith Easter and Hope MacLeod, he was educated at the Charlottetown Rural High School and the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.