Leap year starting on Tuesday

A leap year starting on Tuesday is any year with 366 days (i.e. it includes 29 February) that begins on Tuesday, 1 January, and ends on Wednesday, 31 December. Its dominical letters hence are FE. The most recent year of such kind was 2008 and the next one will be 2036 in the Gregorian calendar[1] or, likewise 2020 and 2048 in the obsolete Julian calendar.

Any leap year that starts on Tuesday, Friday or Saturday has only one Friday the 13th; the only one in this leap year occurs in June.

Any leap year that starts on Tuesday has only one Tuesday the 13th: the only one in this leap year occurs in May.

Any leap year that starts on Tuesday has only one Friday the 17th: the only one in this leap year occurs in October.

From August of the common year preceding that year until October in this type of year is also the longest period (14 months) that occurs without a Friday the 17th.

  1. ^ Robert van Gent (2017). "The Mathematics of the ISO 8601 Calendar". Utrecht University, Department of Mathematics. Retrieved 20 July 2017.

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