A common year starting on Saturday is any non-

leap year A leap year (also known as an intercalary year or bissextile year) is a calendar year that contains an additional day (or, in the case of a lunisolar calendar, a month) compared to a common year. The 366th day (or 13th month) is added to keep t ...

(i.e. a year with 365 days) that begins on Saturday, 1 January, and ends on Saturday, 31 December. Its dominical letter hence is B. The most recent year of such kind was 2022, and the next one will be 2033 in the Gregorian calendar or, likewise, 2023 and 2034 in the obsolete

Julian calendar The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception). The Julian calendar is still used as a religious calendar in parts of the Eastern Orthodox Church and in parts ...

. See below for more. Any common year that starts on Saturday has only one Friday the 13th: the only one in this common year occurs in May. Leap years starting on Friday share this characteristic. From July of the year that precedes this year until

September September is the ninth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 30 days. September in the Northern Hemisphere and March in the Southern Hemisphere are seasonally equivalent. In the Northern hemisphere, the b ...

in this type of year is the longest period (14 months) that occurs without a Tuesday the 13th. This year has three months (January, May and October) which begin on a weekend-day.

Calendars

Applicable years

Gregorian Calendar

In the (currently used) Gregorian calendar, alongside

Sunday Sunday (Latin: ''dies solis'' meaning "day of the sun") is the day of the week between Saturday and Monday. Sunday is a Christian sabbath, day of rest in most Western countries and a part of the Workweek and weekend, weekend. In some Middle Ea ...

Monday Monday is the day of the week that takes place between Sunday and Tuesday. According to the International Organization for Standardization's ISO 8601 standard, it is the first day of the week. Names The names of the day of the week were co ...

, Wednesday or Friday, the fourteen types of year (seven common, seven leap) repeat in a 400-year cycle (20871 weeks). Forty-three common years per cycle or exactly 10.75% start on a Saturday. The 28-year sub-cycle will break at a century year which is not divisible by 400 (e.g. it broke at the year 1900 but not at the year 2000).

Julian Calendar

In the now-obsolete Julian calendar, the fourteen types of year (seven common, seven leap) repeat in a 28-year cycle (1461 weeks). A leap year has two adjoining dominical letters, (one for January and February and the other for March to December in the Church of England, as 29 February has no letter). Each of the seven two-letter sequences occurs 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 (((year + 8) mod 28) + 1). Years 10, 16 and 27 of the cycle are common years beginning on Saturday. 2017 is year 10 of the cycle. Approximately 10.71% of all years are common years starting on Saturday.

Holidays

International

Valentine's Day Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a Christian feast day honoring a Christian martyrs, martyr named Saint Valentine, Valentine, and ...

and

Halloween Halloween, or Hallowe'en (less commonly known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve), is a celebration geography of Halloween, observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christianity, Western Christian f ...

fall on a

* World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly falls on July 24 * Christmas Day falls on a

Roman Catholic Solemnities

* Epiphany falls on a

Thursday Thursday is the day of the week between Wednesday and Friday. According to the ISO 8601 international standard, it is the fourth day of the week. In countries which adopt the "Sunday-first" convention, it is the fifth day of the week. Name Th ...

* Candlemas falls on a Wednesday * Saint Joseph's Day falls on a Saturday * The Annunciation of Jesus falls on a Friday * The Nativity of John the Baptist falls on a Friday * The Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul falls on a Saturday * The

Transfiguration of Jesus The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event described in the New Testament where Jesus in Christianity, Jesus is Transfiguration (religion), transfigured and becomes radiant in Glory (religion), glory upon a mountain. The Synoptic Gospels (, , ) r ...

falls on a Saturday * The

Assumption of Mary The Assumption of Mary is one of the four Catholic Mariology#Dogmatic teachings, Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. Pope Pius XII defined it on 1 November 1950 in his apostolic constitution as follows: It leaves open the question of w ...

falls on a

* The Exaltation of the Holy Cross falls on a Wednesday * All Saints' Day falls on a Tuesday * All Souls' Day falls on a Wednesday * The Feast of Christ the King falls on its earliest possible date, November 20 (or on October 30 in versions of the calendar between 1925 and 1962) * The First Sunday of Advent falls on its earliest possible date, November 27 * The Immaculate Conception falls on a

* Gaudete Sunday falls on its earliest possible date, December 11 * Rorate Sunday falls on its earliest possible date, December 18

Australia and New Zealand

* Australia Day falls on a Wednesday * Waitangi Day falls on a

* Daylight saving ends on April 3 * ANZAC Day falls on a

* Mother's Day falls on its earliest possible date, May 8 *

Father's Day Father's Day is a day set aside for honoring one's father, as well as fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. "Father's Day" complements similar celebrations honoring family members, such as Mother's Day and, in som ...

falls on September 4 * Daylight saving begins on September 25 in New Zealand and October 2 in Australia

British Isles

* Saint David's Day falls on a Tuesday * Mother's Day falls on March 6, March 13, March 20, March 27 or April 3 * Daylight saving begins on March 27 * Saint Patrick's Day falls on a

* Saint George's Day falls on a Saturday *

falls on June 19 * Orangeman's Day falls on a Tuesday * Daylight saving ends on October 30 * Guy Fawkes Night falls on a Saturday * Saint Andrew's Day falls on a Wednesday

Canada

* Daylight saving begins on March 13 * Mother's Day falls on its earliest possible date, May 8 * Victoria Day falls on May 23 *

falls on June 19 * Canada Day falls on a Friday * Labour Day falls on September 5 * Thanksgiving Day falls on October 10 * Daylight saving ends on November 6

United States

* Martin Luther King Jr. Day falls on

January 17 Events Pre-1600 * 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. * 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 peopl ...

* Presidents' Day falls on its latest possible date,

February 21 Events Pre-1600 * 452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine. * 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery. * 1440 – The ...

* Daylight saving begins on March 13 * Mother's Day falls on its earliest possible date, May 8. This is the only type of year when Presidents’ Day to Mother’s Day are only 76 days apart. They are 83 days apart in all other years * Memorial Day falls on May 30 * Juneteenth and

coincide on

, June 19 *

Independence Day An independence day is an annual event memorialization, commemorating the anniversary of a nation's independence or Sovereign state, statehood, usually after ceasing to be a group or part of another nation or state, or after the end of a milit ...

falls on a

* Labor Day falls on September 5 * Grandparents' Day falls on September 11 * Columbus Day falls on October 10 * Daylight saving ends on November 6 * Thanksgiving Day falls on November 24

References

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