How Often Do Calendar Years Repeat?

For non-leap years, if we start in 2019 then the repeats are in 2030, 2036, 2041, and 2047. The pattern is 11, 6, 5, 6 (starting in 2019).

Leap years repeat every 28 years.
The last leap year was 2016, the next repeat of the days and dates will be 2044.
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Patterns in the calendar – how often can we reuse old calendars?
August 31, 2010
By Nick Lomb

Z asks: Is this true? This month of August 2010 has 5 Sundays, 5 Mondays and 5 Tuesdays, which hasn’t happened for 800 years?

Answer: Any month of 31 days must have five of three consecutive days of the week. Which three depends on the day of the week with which the month begins. For example, if the month starts with a Wednesday then it has five Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Now as there are seven days of the week with which the month could begin, we would expect that every seven years August will begin with a Sunday as in 2010. However, the leap years every four years provide some complications.

The last time August had five Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays was in 2004, six years ago as there was a leap year in between.

The previous August with five Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays was in 1999, five years earlier as there were two leap years – 2000 and 2004 itself – in between. Then 1993 and then, surprisingly there was no such August until 1982. And 1982 is, of course, 28 years prior to 2010.

We have now established the patterns in the calendar. The calendar can repeat at five or six year intervals, but does not always do so. The only simple pattern is that it repeats every 28 years. It repeats every 28 years as 28 is the lowest common multiple of the 4 year cycle of leap years and the 7 weekdays.

The 28-year calendar cycle works well as long as the 4-year cycle of leap years is maintained. However, in the Gregorian Calendar that we use century years are not leap years unless they are divisible by 400.

So 1900 was not a leap year, 2000 was a leap year while 2100 will not be a leap year. We are now in the middle of a long unbroken sequence of 4-yearly leap years from 1904 to 2096, but then in 2100 the 28-year calendar cycle will be broken.

Vintage The American Museum Hayden Planetarium NYC 400 Year Slide Calendar

RATING: #RobertReview (Calender): 9 | 10

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Published: 13th January 2019. 

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