register
sign-in

register
sign-in

REGISTRATION ERROR

Please type your email address:

This email address is already registered - click here to be mailed a new password

Please choose a username:

Please type a password …

… and re-type your password to confirm:

Cancel Register

Help: Need help using our site? Visit our support area.
Contact us: To get in touch with us, please use one of the methods on our contact details page.

Teach True Knowledge

You can contribute to True Knowledge by teaching it something new. You can add:

Or teach us a fact:

Your Answer…

You asked:

When is Ash Wednesday?

February 13th 2013

February 22nd 2012

What is the date of Ash Wednesday (the 7th Wednesday before Easter; the first day of Lent; the day following Mardi Gras (`Fat Tuesday\'); a day of fasting and repentance) in the coming year?

Report Abuse

Rate this answer:

Vote

or Vote

Analyse this question

▶ How do we know?

Facts

Show reasoning

I followed this chain of reasoning:

By calculation (generator: ["now@trueknowledge.com"]) I know that:
The current time is February 12th 2012, 22:12:04

By calculation (generator: ["timepoint_sum@trueknowledge.com"]) I know that:
April 12th 2013, 22:12:04 is the timepoint sum of February 12th 2012, 22:12:04 and 1 year, 2 months and 0 days

By calculation (generator: ["strictequal1@trueknowledge.com"]) I know that:
February 12th 2012, 22:12:04 - April 12th 2013, 22:12:04 is strictly equal to February 12th 2012, 22:12:04 - April 12th 2013, 22:12:04

I know from locally stored knowledge that:
February 22nd 2012 is a Ash Wednesday ([fact: ["105711566@trueknowledge.com"]])

By calculation (generator: ["pinstance@trueknowledge.com"]) I know that:
Fact 1: February 22nd 2012 is a point in time

Fact 1 is true for all time

By calculation (generator: ["strictequal1@trueknowledge.com"]) I know that:
February 22nd 2012 is strictly equal to February 22nd 2012

By calculation (generator: ["start_or_whole_timepoint_event2@trueknowledge.com"]) I know that:
February 22nd 2012 is the start time or time of occurrence of February 22nd 2012

By calculation (generator: ["pinstance@trueknowledge.com"]) I know that:
Fact 1: February 12th 2012, 22:12:04 - April 12th 2013, 22:12:04 is a period of time

Fact 1 is true for all time

By calculation (generator: ["timepointintimeperiod@trueknowledge.com"]) I know that:
February 22nd 2012 is a timepoint within February 12th 2012, 22:12:04 - April 12th 2013, 22:12:04

I know from locally stored knowledge that:
February 13th 2013 is a Ash Wednesday ([fact: ["105711567@trueknowledge.com"]])

By calculation (generator: ["pinstance@trueknowledge.com"]) I know that:
Fact 1: February 13th 2013 is a point in time

Fact 1 is true for all time

By calculation (generator: ["strictequal1@trueknowledge.com"]) I know that:
February 13th 2013 is strictly equal to February 13th 2013

By calculation (generator: ["start_or_whole_timepoint_event2@trueknowledge.com"]) I know that:
February 13th 2013 is the start time or time of occurrence of February 13th 2013

By calculation (generator: ["timepointintimeperiod@trueknowledge.com"]) I know that:
February 13th 2013 is a timepoint within February 12th 2012, 22:12:04 - April 12th 2013, 22:12:04

I used the following facts to provide this answer:

February 22nd 2012 is or has been an Ash Wednesday

agree disagree edit

February 13th 2013 is or has been an Ash Wednesday

agree disagree edit

Answering questions based on 635,025,637 facts on 27,816,249 things

Answers from our users:

We have no user supplied answers for this question yet.
Be the first to contribute one here

The best answers stand alone—make sense without the question being present—and are high quality English.

Submit Answer

External web pages (using standard web search):

Ash Wednesday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ash Wednesday, in the calendar of Western Christianity, is the first day of Lent and occurs 46 days before Easter. It is a moveable fast, falling on a different date each year ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Wednesday

Easter: What is Ash Wednesday?

Interesting facts and information about Ash Wednesday and the meaning behind this special day in the Christian calendar.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/easter/ashwednesday.htm

Ash Wednesday: Definition from Answers.com

Ash Wednesday n. The seventh Wednesday before Easter and the first day of Lent, on which many Christians receive a mark of ashes on the forehead as

http://www.answers.com/topic/ash-wednesday

BBC - Religions - Christianity: Lent

Ash Wednesday is the beginning of Lent for Western Christian churches. It's a day of penitence to clean the soul before the Lent fast. Roman Catholic, Anglican, and some other ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/holydays/lent_1.shtml

Ash Wednesday (poem) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Ash Wednesday" (sometimes "Ash-Wednesday") is the first long poem written by T. S. Eliot after his 1927 conversion to Anglicanism. Published in 1930 (see 1930 in poetry), this ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Wednesday_(poem)

Add our Knowledge to your App

Developers: Connect your program to True Knowledge.

Use it to solve problems or add content to a site or bring Q&A to your app.

Free trial.

Subjects:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Places:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Products:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

New questions: 100 200 300 400 500 600 1000 5000 10000

Thank you

Reset request sent

Teach True Knowledge