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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. Why do we have a leap year? What would happen if we didn’t ...

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    Check your calendars, California. We get an extra day this month. Whether you’ve realized it or not, 2024 is a leap year.Every four years (typically), a leap year occurs in February — making ...

  4. 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,

  5. 2024 is a Leap Year, but what does that mean? Here's the ...

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    Leap day exists to even out time discrepancies between the calendar year and the solar year. While it's widely accepted that a calendar year has 365 days, it takes Earth about 365.242 days to ...

  6. 2024 in California - Wikipedia

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    Bernstein, a 19-year-old gay, Jewish student from the University of Pennsylvania, was killed in January 2018. [128] November 16 – Mpox epidemic: The first case of clade I mpox in the United States is reported in California. [129] November 18 – The Sol Spin ride at Knott's Berry Farm malfunctioned, leaving 22 riders stranded in midair for ...

  7. List of years in California - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the individual California year pages. California was admitted as the 31st U.S. state on September 9, 1850. [1] [2] 19th century. 1850s 1850 1851

  8. Caesar created a new Julian calendar for Rome that measured a year as 365.25 days long, as the original Roman year was 10 days shorter than a modern year. The seasons were thrown off as a result ...

  9. 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 ...