The solar year is actually 365.2422 days long.
By 1582, the gap had become so great that Pope Gregory XIII decided to go directly from Thursday the 4th October to Friday the 15th October. He added this further rule to the Julian Calendar, resulting in
the Gregorian Calendar that we use today :
Years divisible by 100 are not leap years
except years divisible by 400. |
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Which of these important
years were leap years?
1700
1715 death of Louis XIV
1789 storming of the Bastille
1896 modern Olympic Games
1898 Dreyfuss Affair
2000
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