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
or, likewise 2020 and AD 2048, 2048 in the obsolete Julian calendar.
Any leap year that starts on Tuesday, leap year starting on Friday, Friday or leap year starting on Saturday, Saturday has only one Friday the 13th; the only one in this leap year June 13, occurs in June. Common year starting on Wednesday, Common years starting on Wednesday share this characteristic.
In this leap year, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is on its latest possible date, January 21, Valentine's Day is on a Thursday, Presidents' Day is on February 18, the February 29, leap day is on a Friday, Saint Patrick's Day is on Monday, Memorial Day is on May 26, Juneteenth is on a Thursday, Independence Day (United States), U.S. Independence Day and Halloween are on a Friday, Labor Day is on its earliest possible date, September 1, Thanksgiving in is on November 27, and Christmas is on a Thursday.
The Election Day in the USA is on November 4, November 4th, as well in Common year starting on Wednesday, common years starting on Wednesday.
Calendars
Applicable years
Gregorian Calendar
Leap years that begin on Tuesday, like those that Leap year starting on Wednesday, start on Wednesday, occur at a rate of approximately 14.43% of all total leap years in a 400-year cycle of the Gregorian calendar. Their overall occurrence is 3.5% (14 out of 400).
400 year cycle
century 1: 8, 36, 64, 92
century 2: 104, 132, 160, 188
century 3: 228, 256, 284
century 4: 324, 352, 380
Julian Calendar
Like all leap year types, the one starting with 1 January on a Tuesday occurs exactly once in a solar cycle, 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 ((year + 8) mod 28) + 1).
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