Easter starts on Easter and ends fifty days later. It ends on Pentecost on June 12. Most Christians celebrate Easter for all fifty days between Easter and Pentecost after fasting and praying for the forty days of lent.
It is one day on Easter Sunday in the United States and on Monday in Europe. Each year the date changes.
Easter is the end of Lent.
Easter marks the end of lent, which started on shrove tuesday, (pancake day).
Easter started after Jesus came back from the dead
because it is when jesus rised from the dead to be seated at the right hand of the father.
jesus
alleluia
it changes every year
May 18th is the last day of Easter in 2013.
Pentecost Sunday (7th sunday after Easter)
Lent started on Ash Wednesday and ended on Easter, a period of forty days. The calculation of when Ash Wednesday happened was based on the calculation of Easter. The calculation of Easter was a matter of some controversy in the Middle Ages, as it remains now, though to a lesser extent, but Easter has always been a Sunday in early Spring.
winter
Easter Sunday