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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. Perpetual calendar - Wikipedia

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    A leap year has one more day, so the year following a leap year begins on the second day of the week after the leap year began. Every four years, the starting weekday advances five days, so over a 28-year period, it advances 35, returning to the same place in both the leap year progression and the starting weekday.

  4. Gregorian calendar - Wikipedia

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    The rule for leap years is: Every year that is exactly divisible by four is a leap year, except for years that are exactly divisible by 100, but these centurial years are leap years if they are exactly divisible by 400. For example, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 are not leap years, but the year 2000 is. —

  5. Why do we have Leap Year? A guide to the calendar's bonus day

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    On a non-Leap Year, some leapers choose to celebrate the big day on Feb. 28. Some choose to celebrate on March 1. Some even choose both days or claim the whole month of February to celebrate.

  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. Why do we have Leap Day? What to know about the science ... - AOL

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    For example, the year 2000 was a leap year, but the years 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not. When did Leap Year start? Julius Caesar was assassinated on March 15, 44 B.C.E. in Rome, Italy.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Is 2024 a leap year? Everything you need to know about the ...

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    For example, 2000 was a leap year but 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not. The next skipped leap year will be in 2100. ... However, the Julian calendar produced too many leap years, so by the time it ...