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  2. Leap year - Wikipedia

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    A leap year (also known as an intercalary year or bissextile year) is a calendar year that contains an additional day (or, in the case of a lunisolar calendar, a month) compared to a common year. The 366th day (or 13th month) is added to keep the calendar year synchronised with the astronomical year or seasonal year . [ 1 ]

  3. Century leap year - Wikipedia

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    A century leap year is a leap year in the Gregorian calendar that is evenly divisible by 400. [1] Like all leap years, it has an extra day in February for a total of 366 days instead of 365. In the obsolete Julian calendar, all years that were divisible by 4, including end-of-century years, were considered leap years. The Julian rule, however ...

  4. Category:Leap years in the Gregorian calendar - Wikipedia

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    Leap years in the Gregorian calendar. Pages in category "Leap years in the Gregorian calendar" The following 110 pages are in this category, out of 110 total.

  5. 2024 is a leap year. Here's what that means — and why we ...

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    The year 2000 was a leap year, but it broke one of the rules: 2000/4 = 500 ...That completes the 1st rule. 2000/100 = 20 ...That breaks the leap year rule, Unless… 2000/400 = 5 …Which solves ...

  6. What’s the point of a Leap Year? Why 2024 brings 29 days of ...

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    The rule is that if the year is divisible by 100 and not divisible by 400, the leap year is skipped. The year 2000 was a leap year, for example, but the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not. The ...

  7. What is a leap year? Everything to know about February's ...

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    Here's the confusing part: According to the NIST, century leap years are only leap years if they can be evenly divided by 400. So, for example, 1700, 1800 and 1900 weren't leap years. And 2100?

  8. 2024 is a leap year, but why? Here’s the science behind the ...

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    Years divisible by 100 (century years such as 1900 or 2000) cannot be leap years unless they are also divisible by 400. (For this reason, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but ...

  9. List of decades, centuries, and millennia - Wikipedia

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    See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years. See history , history by period , and periodization for different organizations of historical events. For earlier time periods, see Timeline of the Big Bang , Geologic time scale , Timeline of evolution , and Logarithmic timeline .