The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia started on 16 February 1983 which was, ironically, "Ash Wednesday" in the Christian calendar. That is why the fires are so named.The bushfires lasted for two days.
The bushfires which started in Victoria and South Australia on Ash Wednesday, 16 February 1983, lasted for two days, until the 18th.
Ash Wednesday is actually a Christian commemoration which occurs every year, 40 days before Easter.However, if the question refers to the disastrous Ash Wednesday bushfires which occurred in Victoria and South Australia, ironically beginning on the real Ash Wednesday, this happened on 16 February 1983.
The Ash Wednesday bushfires, which occurred in Australia's summer in 1983, killed a total of 75 people. This included 47 people in Victoria, among them seventeen volunteer firefighters, and another 28 people in South Australia.
The name was the 'Ash Wednesday' bushfires. This was partially because of the ash which was strewn across SE Australia during the catastrophic fires. However, it coincided with the beginning of the season of Lent that year, the six week period before Easter. In the Christian calendar, the beginning day of Lent is known as "Ash Wednesday".
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Ash Wednesday has not been stopped. It is the first day of Lent and is still observed throughout the world.
Black and purple. black because that ash Wednesday also remembers bushfires and burning of palmfrones and purple the start of lent
In Australia's Ash Wednesday bushfires of February 1983, the highest death toll in any one area was 21 people who were killed in the Belgrave Heights and Upper Beaconsfield areas, southeast of Melbourne.
The Ash Wednesday bushfires, which occurred in Australia's summer in 1983, killed a total of 75 people. This included 47 people in Victoria, among them seventeen volunteer firefighters, and another 28 people in South Australia.
Ash Wednesday.
Ash Wednesday 2025 will be on Wednesday, March 5.