* 1916 – Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.

* 1916 – Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.

Irish Republicans, who sought full independence for Ireland rather than just Home Rule, staged the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin against British rule.

General Post Office ( Dublin ) | The GPO on O ' Connell Street was at the centre of the 1916 Easter Rising.

The Easter Rising of 1916, the Irish War of Independence, and the subsequent Irish Civil War resulted in a significant amount of physical destruction in central Dublin.

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

Centre of the Easter Rising

British soldiers searching the River Tolka in Dublin for arms and ammunition after the Easter Rising.

The aftermath of the Rising, and in particular the British reaction to it, helped to sway a large section of Irish nationalist opinion away from hostility or ambivalence and towards support for the rebels of Easter 1916.

A plaque commemorating the Easter Rising at the General Post Office ( Dublin ) | General Post Office, Dublin, with the Irish text in Gaelic type | Gaelic script, and the English text in regular Latin script

A few months after the Easter Rising, W. B. Yeats commemorated some of the fallen figures of the Irish Republican movement, as well as expressed his torn emotions regarding these events, in the poem Easter, 1916.

The first episode focusses especially on the Easter Rising.

* The Easter Rising is discussed in the television series Downton Abbey, which is set in an English country estate during the 1910s.

The family's chauffeur, Tom Branson, is an Irish republican and socialist whose cousin was killed by British soldiers during the Easter Rising under the suspicion that he was " probably a rebel.

* The Plough and the Stars is a play by Seán O ' Casey that takes place during the Easter Rising.

* Coogan, Tim Pat, 1916: The Easter Rising ISBN 0-304-35902-5

* Foy, Michael and Barton, Brian, The Easter Rising ISBN 0-7509-2616-3

* Kostick, Conor & Collins, Lorcan, The Easter Rising, A Guide to Dublin in 1916 ISBN 0-86278-638-X

), Leaders and Men of the Easter Rising, Dublin 1916

* McNally, Michael and Dennis, Peter, Easter Rising 1916: Birth of the Irish Republic ( 2007 ), Osprey Publishing, ISBN 978-1-84603-067-3

* Easter Rising 50th Anniversary audio & video footage from RTÉ ( Irish public television )

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.

On the afternoon of Easter Day, a joyful service called " Agape Vespers " is celebrated During this service the Great Prokeimenon is chanted and a lesson from the Gospel () is read in as many different languages as possible, accompanied by the joyful ringing of bells.

Mämmi () is a traditional Finnish Easter dessert.

Just north of this junction the A9 bridges the Cromarty Firth () to reach Easter Ross.

Thomas MacDonagh () ( 1 February 1878 – 3 May 1916 ) was an Irish nationalist, poet, playwright, and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising.

Magiritsa () is a Greek soup made from lamb offal, associated with the Easter ( Pascha ) tradition of the Greek Orthodox Church.

Hill of Fearn () is a small village near Tain in Easter Ross, in the Scottish council area of Highland.

Harissa () is traditionally served on Easter day

The stadium () was opened on Easter Saturday, 30 March 1929 for the new craze of Speedway.

Invergordon () is a town and port in Easter Ross, in Ross and Cromarty, Highland, Scotland.

Balintore () is a village near Tain in Easter Ross, Scotland.

Hilton of Cadboll, or simply Hilton, () is a village about southeast of Tain in Easter Ross, is in the Scottish council area of Highland It is famous for the Hilton of Cadboll Stone.

The Seaboard Villages () are three contiguous coastal villages, situated about 10 km southeast of the town of Tain in Easter Ross, Scotland.

The list was headed by ( Henry ) Hutton of St. John's who was matriculated from St. John's at Easter, 1625.

The second name was ( Edward ) Kempe, matriculated from Queens' College at Easter, 1625.

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.

The seasonal adjustment takes into account such factors as Easter was on April 2 this year, two weeks earlier than in 1960, and pre-Easter buying was pushed into March.

She was thinking of Paul a few weeks ago, in the Easter holidays, with her at one of those awful Friday Evening Dancing Class parties her mother had made her attend.

The battle which followed on April 6, 402 ( coinciding with Easter ), was a victory for Rome, though a costly one.

In the seventh week after Easter May 878, around Whitsuntide, Alfred rode to ‘ Egbert's Stone ’ east of Selwood, where he was met by " all the people of Somerset and of Wiltshire and of that part of Hampshire which is on this side of the sea is, west of Southampton Water, and they rejoiced to see him ".

The Anno Domini year numbering was developed by a monk named Dionysius Exiguus in Rome during 525, as a result of his work on calculating the date of Easter.

In his Easter table the year 532 AD was equated with the regnal year 248 of Emperor Diocletian.

For much of its history Aberdour was two villages, Wester Aberdour and Easter Aberdour, on either side of the Dour Burn.

His interest in computus, the science of calculating the date of Easter, was also useful in the account he gives of the controversy between the British and Anglo-Saxon church over the correct method of obtaining the Easter date.

Since the focus of his book was calculation, Bede gave instructions for computing the date of Easter and the related time of the Easter Full Moon, for calculating the motion of the Sun and Moon through the zodiac, and for many other calculations related to the calendar.

Indeed, his mother was illiterate and never recorded the date of his birth, remembering only that he had been born on a Wednesday, eight days before the Feast of the Ascension, which itself occurs 40 days after Easter.

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.

Between 1959 and 1965 it organised the Aldermaston March, which was held over the Easter weekend from the Atomic Weapons Establishment near Aldermaston to Trafalgar Square, London.

In Easter 1958, a 52-mile march from London to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston was organised by the Direct Action Committee, supported by CND after some initial reluctance.

This tradition was taken to the New World by European settlers, and continues to this day each Easter on the White House lawn.

While the origin of Easter eggs can be explained in the symbolic terms described above, a sacred tradition among followers of Eastern Christianity says that Mary Magdalene was bringing cooked eggs to share with the other women at the tomb of Jesus, and the eggs in her basket miraculously turned brilliant red when she saw the risen Christ. The egg represents the boulder of the tomb of Jesus.

The second century equivalent of Easter and the Paschal Triduum was called by both Greek and Latin writers " Pascha ( πάσχα )", a Greek transliteration of the Aramaic form of the Hebrew פ ֶּ ס ַ ח, the Passover feast of Exodus 12.

But while martyrs ' days ( usually the individual dates of martyrdom ) were celebrated on fixed dates in the local solar calendar, the date of Easter was fixed by means of the local Jewish lunisolar calendar.