Common year starting on Wednesday


A common year starting on Wednesday is any non-leap year that begins on Wednesday, 1 January, and ends on Wednesday, 31 December. Its dominical letter hence is E. The most recent year of such kind was 2014, and the next one will be 2025 in the Gregorian calendar or, likewise, 2009, 2015, and 2026 in the obsolete Julian calendar. The century year, 1800, was also a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar, see [|below for more]. Any common year that starts on Wednesday, Friday or Saturday has only one Friday the 13th; the only Friday the 13th in this common year occurs in June. Leap years starting on Tuesday share this characteristic.

Calendars

Applicable years

Gregorian Calendar

In the Gregorian calendar, alongside Sunday, Monday, Friday or Saturday, the fourteen types of year repeat in a 400-year cycle. Forty-three common years per cycle or exactly 10.75% start on a Wednesday. The 28-year sub-cycle does only span across century years divisible by 400, e.g. 1600, 2000, and 2400.

Julian Calendar

In the now-obsolete Julian calendar, the fourteen types of year repeat in a 28-year cycle. A leap year has two adjoining dominical letters. This sequence occurs exactly once within a cycle, and every common letter thrice.
As the Julian calendar repeats after 28 years that means it will also repeat after 700 years, i.e. 25 cycles. The year's position in the cycle is given by the formula + 1). Years 2, 8 and 19 of the cycle are common years beginning on Wednesday. 2017 is year 10 of the cycle. Approximately 10.71% of all years are common years beginning on Wednesday.