Easter is the first Sunday after the full moon after the spring equinox (Which March 2I). So Easter is not on the same day each year. Easter can be as early as March 22 or as late as April 25. Click here for when Easter Falls
Easter is celebrated world wide as the beginning of Spring and/or the Christian religious holiday to celebrated the of resurrection of Jesus Christ, Hence the Angel Spreading the Joyous news.

Easter was originally a pagan festival in which ancient Saxons celebrated spring with in a festival (on the vernal equinox (That is when the days start to get longer). for their goddess of New Birth and Springtime, Eastre and Christian missionaries kind of eased it into celebration the Resurrection of Christ.

The Easter Bunny comes from the symbol of the pagan festival of Eastre. the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eastre , was worshiped by the symbol of reproduction, the rabbit (and you Know about rabbits).

The Easter Egg From the earliest times, the egg is the symbol of fertility and new life, in most cultures. The exchange of eggs in the springtime is an old custom. Eggs were often decorated or brightly colored by boiling them with leaves or petals of flowers. Now children are brought into Easter with a colored egg hunt which are placed in Easter baskets along with chocolate and candy.

Easter is the end of the Lent, which covers a forty-six-day period beginning on Ash Wednesday and ends with Easter. Than Holy Week, the last week of Lent, starts Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday takes its name from Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem where the crowds laid palms at his feet. Holy Thursday symbolizes the Last Supper, which was the evening before the Crucifixion. Friday in Holy Week is the day that Christ was crucified and died on the cross.
Holy week and Lent ends with Easter Sunday, the day of Jesus Christ's resurrection. Symbolizing re-birth and going into Heaven.

Easter is a time of springtime festivals Some of the traditional Easter Stuff associated with the festival survive in the Easter rabbit, a symbol of fertility, and in colored Easter eggs, originally painted brightly with colors to represent the sunlight of spring, and used in Easter-egg rolling contests or given as gifts. The early Christians, many of whom were brought up in the Hebrew tradition associated Easter with the Passover festival

the Cross The Cross is the symbol of the Crucifixion, as opposed to the Resurrection. However, at the Council of Nicaea, in A.D. 325, Constantine decreed that the Cross was the official symbol of Christianity. The Cross is not only a symbol of Easter, but it is more widely used, especially by the Catholic Church, as a year-round symbol of their faith.