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Pages in category "Leap years in the Gregorian calendar" The following 110 pages are in this category, out of 110 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ...
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. —
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 ...
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?
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 ]
The history of Leap Years dates back over 2,000 years and came about during a famous affair and because of it, we don't shovel snow in July.
A leap year starting on Thursday is any year with 366 days ... presented as common in many English-speaking areas; ... 20th century 1904: 1932: 1960: 1988: 21st ...