The Calendar
What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.
Already Underway
New year
13 to 15 April, timed to the sun's entry into Aries in the traditional solar calendar.
Day 2 of 3
Commemoration of a person or event
1 Vaisakh: 14 April in the Nanakshahi calendar
Day 2 of 2
13 or 14 April depending on the year.
Feast / celebration
The week following Pascha
Day 2 of 7
The week following Pascha.
Feast / celebration
The fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost, kept as a single festal season
Day 2 of 50
Feast / celebration
15-21 Nisan; 15-22 Nisan in the Diaspora
Day 7 of 7
Seven days in the Land of Israel and among Reform communities. Eight in much of the Diaspora.
This Week In Architecture and Design History
Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.