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However, the states where that day is a public holiday use different terminology – it is officially gazetted as "Easter Saturday" in the ACT, New South Wales, the Northern Territory and South Australia, [5] [6] [7] [2] as "the day after Good Friday" in Queensland, [8] and as "Saturday before Easter Sunday" in Victoria.
In 2000 and 2011, this created a five-day weekend over Easter: in 2000, Easter Monday fell on 24 April, with the following Tuesday, 25 April, then being ANZAC Day; in 2011, ANZAC Day and Easter Monday coincided on Monday 25 April, which led to a substitute public holiday being declared in Australia for Tuesday 26 April, [5] and likely ...
The 2025 Australia Day Honours list is announced. [46] Allen Cheuk-Seng Cheng, Megan Davis , James Edelman , Gillian Triggs , Lyn Williams and Galarrwuy Yunupingu are all bestowed with the highest honour of the Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) .
However, in Australia, the day between Good Friday and Easter (Sunday) is always called Easter Saturday.Eregli bob 08:47, 20 March 2008 (UTC) Secularly it is called Easter Saturday, the christian name is Holy Saturday, with easter saturday being the next saturday.--Dacium 22:35, 14 April 2008 (UTC).
The earliest Easter in the 21st century was March 23, 2008. Another March 23 Easter won’t come again until the year 2160. Here's a list of the earliest Easter dates:
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The conjunction of Sun and Moon ("new moon") is most likely to fall on the preceding day, which is day 29 of a "hollow" (29-day) month and day 30 of a "full" (30-day) month. Historically, in Beda Venerabilis' Easter cycle , the paschal full moon date for a year was found from its sequence number in the Metonic cycle, called the golden number ...
Australia Day on 26 January is considered a day of mourning by many Indigenous Australians, as it marks the day Captain Cook’s ship landed in Sydney Cove, triggering Australia’s colonisation ...