After this year, the next leap year and leap day is Feb. 29, 2028. ... Because 1700 is divisible by 4, it was a leap year (in the Gregorian calendar and Julian calendar).

Thursday (Feb. 29) is "leap day," an artifact that dates back to the year 46 B.C. Find out how this calendar oddity came to be.

When the Julian calendar was later refined into the Gregorian calendar in 1582, the tradition of adding a leap day to February persisted. Saman Shafiq is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY.

In honor of Leap Day, this read is for the history nerds. Ever wonder how America caught our calendar up with the rest of the world? In September 1752, we skipped over 11 days.

When is leap day? Leap day is on Feb. 29, 2024. February, our shortest month of the year, typically has 28 days on the calendar. But in a leap year, we add one more day to February, making it 29 ...

The Leap Year rules were originated in the Julian Calendar, established in 46 BC by Julius Caeser, but the system wasn't perfect. Leap day exists to even out time discrepancies between the ...

Here's what you should know now that 2024 has officially begun. What is a leap year? A leap year means there's an extra day in the calendar. "It takes approximately 365.25 days for Earth to orbit ...

When we have a leap year, the calendar lengthens to 366 days to solve an age-old quandary: the fact that it takes 365.2422 days, not an even 365, for the Earth to complete its orbit around the sun.

When the Julian calendar was later refined into the Gregorian calendar in 1582, the tradition of adding a leap day to February persisted. Saman Shafiq is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY.

In the Julian calendar, the new year began on March 25. So March 24, 1701 would be followed directly by March 25, 1702. The Gregorian calendar, as we know today, begins on January 1.

While there are plenty of things to note in the calendar for 2024, one of the biggest is that this year is a leap year. During a leap year, the month of February has an extra day added to it. So ...