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Early Easter

Someone posted this on a mailing list I am on, it explains just how rare and how early this Easter really is:

Yep, Easter is VERY early this year! Here's why:

As you may know, Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon
after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20).

This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people used
to identify Passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman calendar.

Based on the above, Easter can actually be one day earlier (March 22) but
that is pretty rare.This year is the earliest Easter any of us will ever see
the rest of our lives! And only the most elderly of our population have ever
seen it this early (95 years old or above!). And none of us have ever, or
will ever, see it a day earlier!

Here's the facts:

The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2228
(220 years from now). The last time it was this early was 1913 (so if you're
95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for that!).

The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285
(277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was 1818. So, no one
alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year!

Cool huh?

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