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Monday 23 March 2026

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

Already Underway

Fast / abstinence
The forty days from Ash Wednesday to Holy Thursday, Sundays not counted
Day 34 of 46
Forty days, counted excluding Sundays, which is why the span is forty-six.

The Week Ahead

Wednesday 25 MarchThe Annunciation
Sunday 29 MarchPalm Sunday

This Week In Law History

23 MarchAffordable Care Act, Enacted Date 2010
23 MarchEnabling Act of 1933, Enacted Date 1933
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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.