Common year starting on Saturday


A common year starting on Saturday is any non-leap year 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. 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 in this type of year is the longest period that occurs without a Tuesday the 13th.
This year has three months which begin on a weekend-day.

Applicable years

Gregorian Calendar

In the Gregorian calendar, alongside Sunday, Monday, Wednesday or Friday, the fourteen types of year repeat in a 400-year cycle. 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.
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Julian Calendar

In the now-obsolete Julian calendar, the fourteen types of year repeat in a 28-year cycle. A leap year has two adjoining dominical letters,. 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 + 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.

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