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Sunday 16 May 2027

What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.

Observed On This Date

Pilgrimage
10 Dhu al-Hijjah, with the days of tashriq to the 13th
Tabular reckoning; a local sighting may move it by a day.
Feast / celebration
The fiftieth day of Eastertide, the seventh Sunday after Easter
The fiftieth day counting Easter Day itself.

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Feast / celebration
The fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost, kept as a single festal season
Day 50 of 50

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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.