THE 1st EASTER IN THE WORLD..........

Easter is an annual festival observed throughout the Christian world. The date for Easter shifts every

 year within the Gregorian Calendar. The Gregorian Calendar is the standard international calendar for

 civil use. In addition, it regulates the ceremonial cycle of the Roman Catholic and Protestant 

churches. The current Gregorian ecclesiastical rules that determine the date of Easter trace back to 

325 CE at the First Council of Nicaea convened by the Roman Emperor Constantine. At that time the Roman world used the Julian Calendar (put in place by Julius Caesar).

The Council decided to keep Easter on a Sunday, the same Sunday throughout the world. To fix 

incontrovertibly the date for Easter, and to make it determinable indefinitely in advance, the Council 

constructed special tables to compute the date. These tables were revised in the following few

 centuries resulting eventually in the tables constructed by the 6th century Abbot of Scythia,

 Dionysis Exiguus. Nonetheless, different means of calculations continued in use throughout the Christian world.