Beginning with All Fools Day and always including St George’s feast, April also sees walking customs and more sporting events. Easter frequently falls during April with its many associated customs, including football, Easter eggs and charity doles.
Some events take place on exactly the same date every year, regardless of which day of the week they fall upon. The following table shows events which are fixed in this way:
| Day | Event | Article |
| 1 | April Fools Day |  |
| 2 | Brougham Lady Anne Clifford's Dole | |
| 6 | Nottingham Badajoz Day | |
| 6 | Tartan Day | |
| 14 | Barnet Battle Commemoration Service | |
| 23 | Lichfield St George's Court | |
| 23 | St George's Day | |
| 30 | Beltane Rites | |
| 30 | Edinburgh Beltane Fire | |
| 30 | Glastonbury Beltane Celebrations | |
Some event dates differ from year to year in order for them to fall on a weekend or during a particular week of the year, for example the 3rd week in January. The following table shows events where dates may vary in this manner:
| Date | Event | Article |
|---|---|---|
| A Saturday in March or April | Dalemain Marmalade Awards & Festival | |
| A weekend in March or April | Whitby Gothic Weekend | |
| Late March/early April (usually a Sunday) | London Spitalfields Goat Race | |
| Late March / early April (usually a Sunday) | University Boat Race | |
| April or May every 5 years | Bodmin Beating the Bounds & Hurling | |
| First Saturday in April | Hull and London: International Pillow Fight Day | |
| A Sunday in April or May | London The Tudor Pull | |
| A Sunday in April or May | Mad Maldon Mud Race | |
| A Saturday early in Month | Aintree Grand National | |
| A Saturday early in Month | Bideford Sheep Grand National | |
| 5th or near date | London John Stow Memorial Service | |
| Saturday nearest 6th | Arbroath Tartan Week | |
| Tuesday after 6th | Tatworth Candle Auction | |
| Saturday nearest 16th | Culloden Memorial Service | |
| Saturday mid-Month | Westmorland Damson Day | |
| A Saturday or Sunday mid Month | St Andrews Kate Kennedy Procession | |
| 3rd Sunday | Mytholmroyd World Dock Pudding Championships | |
| 3rd Wednesday in the Month | Wirksworth Great Barmote Court | |
| 18th (latest possible date) | Palm Sunday | |
| 22 (latest possible date) | Maundy Thursday | |
| Saturday nearest 23rd | Stratford Shakespeare's Birthday Celebrations | |
| Sunday nearest 23rd | Salisbury St George's Day Celebrations | |
| A Saturday late in Month | Camborne Trevithick Day | |
| A Saturday late in month | Heathfield Heffle Cuckoo Fair | |
| A Saturday late in Month | Marsden Cuckoo Festival | |
| A Sunday late in Month | Ducklington Fritillary Sunday | |
| A Monday Late in the Month | Bourne Running Auction | |
| A Sunday in late April or early May | Swithland Wood Bluebell Service | |
| 23 (latest possible date) | Good Friday | |
| 24 (latest possible date) | Easter Saturday | |
| 25 (latest possible date) | Easter Sunday | |
| 26 (latest possible date) | Easter Monday | |
| Weekend nearest 27th | Dunbar Battle Commemoration 1296 | |
| Saturday nearest May Eve (30th) | Butser Beltain Festival & Wicker Man | |
| Near 1st May (may be in late April) | Charlton-on-Otmoor Garland Ceremony | |
| Saturday in late April/May | Alcester Court Leet Assizes | |
| Late April to late June | Worcestershire British Asparagus Festival | |
Easter was the most important festival in the Christian Church, celebrating the resurrection. Easter has no settled date, but is fixed by a complex system based upon the phases of the moon and the equinox – it usually falls between late March and late April. Maundy Thursday is the day before Good Friday, which is followed by Easter Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Hocktide is the Monday and Tuesday following Easter Monday.
| Date | Event | Article |
|---|---|---|
| Ash Wednesday to Easter Monday | St Albans Alban Hot Cross Buns | |
| Palm Sunday weekend and Good Friday | Bury Pace Eggers | |
| Last Thursday of Easter Term | Ufton Marvyn Dole | |
| Maundy Thursday | Durham Judas Cup Ceremony | |
| Maundy Thursday | Leigh (Manchester) Henry Travice Charity | |
| Maundy Thursday | Royal Maundy | |
| Good Friday & Easter Weekend | Easter Pilgrimages and Passion Plays | |
| Good Friday | Calder Valley Pace Egg Plays | |
| Good Friday | Chiddingstone Real Football | |
| Good Friday | Cressbrook Good Friday Band | |
| Good Friday | Dunstable Orange Rolling | |
| Good Friday | Fenton Bebibell (Near Morvah) Dolly Dunking | |
| Good Friday | Ringmer (formerly Alciston & Firle) Long-Rope Skipping | |
| Good Friday | Hartfield Dole | |
| Good Friday | Hastings Stations of the Cross Passion Play and Marbles | |
| Good Friday | Horndon-on-the-Hill Buns | |
| Good Friday | London Butterworth Charity & Widows Sixpence | |
| Good Friday | London Widow's Bun Ceremony | |
| Good Friday | Mansfield Mary Mallatratt's Dole | |
| Good Friday | Penistone Flour Dole | |
| Good Friday | Tinsley Green Marbles Championship | |
| Good Friday | Workington Football | |
| Easter Saturday | Bacup Brittannia Coconut Dancers | |
| Easter Saturday | Market Harborough Hubbard Singing | |
| Easter Sunday | Dinas Bran Pilgrimage | |
| Easter Sunday | London St Bride's Egg Rolling | |
| Easter Sunday | Newcastle Easter Vigil Rooftop Singing | |
| Easter Sunday or Monday | Peterlee World Egg Jarping Championships | |
| Easter Sunday | Rawtenstall Clog Cobbin Championships | |
| Easter Monday | Biddenden Dole | |
| Easter Monday | Furness Pasche Egg Play | |
| Easter Monday | Gawthorpe World Coal Carrying Championship | |
| Easter Monday | Great Finborough Race of the Boggmen | |
| Easter Monday | Greenwich Easter Monday Lifting | |
| Easter Monday | Hallaton Hare Pie Scramble & Bottle Kicking | |
| Easter Monday | Hedley Barrel Race | |
| Easter Monday | London Harness Horse Parade | |
| Easter Monday | Morpeth Easter Oranges | |
| Easter Monday | Mossley & Middleton Pace Egg Plays | |
| Easter Monday | Preston Egg Rolling | |
| Easter Monday | Winchelsea Mayoring | |
| Easter Tuesday | Bristol Tuppenny Starvers Charity Dole | |
| Easter Tuesday | South Cave Jobson Charity Bequest & Sermon | |
| Easter Tuesday | Workington Football | |
| Thursday after Easter | Ratcliffe Culey Lane Setting | |
| Weekend after Easter | Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering & Border Cavalcade | |
| Saturday after Easter | Workington Football | |
| Hock Tuesday (Tuesday of the week after Easter week) | Hungerford Hocktide & Tutti Men | |