I recently had a question on an IT box asking which day the Earl of Essex was executed on. The three answers were Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Palm Sunday I think. Does anyone happen to know. It was 25th Feb 1603.
25th February is too early for any of those three.
Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, which makes the earliest possible date March 22nd. Good Friday is two days before, and Palm Sunday seven days before, Easter Sunday.
Easter, Lent and movable Feasts associated with Easter
Ash Wednesday is 12 February, 1603.
Laetare Sunday is 9 March, 1603.
Palm/Passion Sunday is 23 March, 1603.
Good Friday is 28 March, 1603.
(Western) Easter Sunday is 30 March, 1603.
Ascension is Thursday, 8 May, 1603.
Pentecost is Sunday, 18 May, 1603.
Trinity Sunday is 25 May, 1603.
Corpus Christi is Thursday, 29 May, 1603.
Sacred Heart of Jesus is Friday, 6 June, 1603.
Immaculate Heart of Mary is Saturday, 7 June, 1603.
Ash Wednesday is 7 March, 1601.
Laetare Sunday is 1 April, 1601.
Palm/Passion Sunday is 15 April, 1601.
Good Friday is 20 April, 1601.
(Western) Easter Sunday is 22 April, 1601.
Ascension is Thursday, 31 May, 1601.
Pentecost is Sunday, 10 June, 1601.
Trinity Sunday is 17 June, 1601.
Corpus Christi is Thursday, 21 June, 1601.
Sacred Heart of Jesus is Friday, 29 June, 1601.
Immaculate Heart of Mary is Saturday, 30 June, 1601.
Dot, that's under the Gregorian calendar, which England didn't adopt till 1752. On the day Essex died in England he would have thought it was Ash Wednesday
yes i put that earlier on today and then i am over tired now and so mixed it up, but it was only a few days difference, not enough to work is it? never mind, too tired now lol
never mind how many days, if it was a Wednesday then maybe it was Maundy Wednesday or Good Wednesday or Palm Wednesday but it can't have been the ones in the question. I see you're being stalked again, no wonder you're tired, dot