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The Gregorian calendar, like the Julian calendar, is a solar calendar with 12 months of 28–31 days each. The year in both calendars consists of 365 days, with a leap day being added to February in the leap years. The months and length of months in the Gregorian calendar are the same as for the Julian calendar.
Bissext, or bissextus (from Latin bis 'twice' and sextus 'sixth') is the leap day which is added to the Julian calendar every fourth year and to the Gregorian calendar almost every fourth year to compensate for the almost six hour difference in length between a common calendar year of 365 days and the average length of the solar year.
The years 1800 and 1900 were also century common years, and so will be 2100, 2200, 2300, 2500, 2600, 2700, 2900, and 3000. The Gregorian Calendar repeats itself every 400 years, so century common years start on a Friday if the remainder obtained when dividing the year by 400 is 100 (dominical letter C), Wednesday if the remainder is 200 ...
1900 was an exceptional common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1900th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 900th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1900s decade. As of the ...
Each calendar year is typically 365 days long, with the idea that it takes that many days for the Earth to make one complete rotation around the sun. ... but the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were ...
Pages in category "Months in the 1900s" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. * January 1900; February 1900; March 1900; April 1900; May 1900; June 1900; July ...
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