Leap year starting on Saturday


A leap year starting on Saturday is any year with 366 days that begins on Saturday, 1 January, and ends on Sunday, 31 December. Its dominical letters hence are BA, such as the years 1780, 1820, 1848, 1876, 1916, 1944, 1972, 2000, 2028, 2056, 2084, 2124, 2152, and 2180 in the Gregorian calendar or, likewise, 2012 and 2040 in the obsolete Julian calendar. In the Gregorian calendar all centennial leap years start on Saturday; the next such year will be 2400, see [|below for more].
Any leap year that starts on Tuesday, Friday or Saturday has only one Friday the 13th; the only Friday the 13th in this leap year occurs in October. Common years starting on Sunday share this characteristic, but also have another in January. From August of the year that precedes this year until October in this type of year is also the longest period that occurs without a Friday the 13th. Common years starting on Tuesday share this characteristic, from July of the year that precedes it to September in that type of year. There are two other ways this 14 month interval can be formed, one involving a common year followed by a leap year and the other a leap year followed by a common year.

Calendars

Applicable years

Gregorian Calendar

Leap years that begin on Saturday, along with those that start on Monday or Thursday, occur least frequently: 13 out of 97 total leap years in a 400-year cycle of the Gregorian calendar. Their overall occurrence is thus 3.25%.
Century leap years are always leap years starting on Saturday and February 29 is always on Tuesday.

Julian Calendar

Like all leap year types, the one starting with 1 January on a Saturday occurs exactly once in a 28-year cycle in the Julian calendar, i.e. in 3.57% of years. 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).
Decade1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th9th10th
15th century142414521480
16th century1508153615641592
17th century162016481676
18th century1704173217601788
19th century1816184418721900
20th century192819561984
21st century2012204020682096
22nd century212421522180