Leap year starting on Sunday

A leap year starting on Sunday is any year with 366 days (i.e. it includes 29 February) that begins on Sunday, 1 January, and ends on Monday, 31 December. Its dominical letters hence are AG. The most recent year of such kind was 2012 and the next one will be 2040 in the Gregorian calendar^[1] or, likewise 2024 and 2052 in the obsolete Julian calendar.

This is the only leap year with three occurrences of Friday the 13th: those three in this leap year occur three months (13 weeks) apart: in January, April, and July. Common years starting on Thursday share this characteristic, in the months of February, March, and November.

Any leap year that starts on Sunday has two Tuesday the 13ths: those two in this leap year occur in March and November.

Any leap year that starts on Sunday has two Friday the 17th: those two in this leap year occur in February and August.

In this type of year, all dates (except 29 February) fall on their respective weekdays the maximal 58 times in the 400 year Gregorian calendar cycle. Leap years starting on Friday share this characteristic. Additionally, these types of years are the only ones which contain 54 different calendar weeks (2 partial, 52 in full) in areas of the world where Monday is considered the first day of the week.

Leap years that begin on Sunday, along with those starting on Friday, occur most frequently: 15 of the 97 (≈ 15.46%) total leap years in a 400-year cycle of the Gregorian calendar. Thus, their overall occurrence is 3.75% (15 out of 400).

Like all leap year types, the one starting with 1 January on a Sunday occurs exactly once in a 28-year cycle in the Julian calendar, i.e., in 3.57% of years. As the Julian calendar repeats after 28 years, it will also repeat after 700 years, i.e., 25 cycles. The formula gives the year's position in the cycle ((year + 8) mod 28) + 1).

• • Valentine's Day falls on a Tuesday
  • The leap day (February 29) falls on a Wednesday
  • World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly falls on its earliest possible date, July 22
  • Halloween falls on a Wednesday
  • Christmas Day falls on a Tuesday

• • Epiphany falls on a Friday
  • Candlemas falls on a Thursday
  • Saint Joseph's Day falls on a Monday
  • The Annunciation of Jesus falls on a Sunday
  • The Nativity of John the Baptist falls on a Sunday
  • The Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul falls on a Friday
  • The Transfiguration of Jesus falls on a Monday
  • The Assumption of Mary falls on a Wednesday
  • The Exaltation of the Holy Cross falls on a Friday
  • All Saints' Day falls on a Thursday
  • All Souls' Day falls on a Friday
  • The Feast of Christ the King falls on November 25 (or on October 28 in versions of the calendar between 1925 and 1962)
  • The First Sunday of Advent falls on December 2
  • The Immaculate Conception falls on a Saturday
  • Gaudete Sunday falls on December 16
  • Rorate Sunday falls on December 23

• • Australia Day falls on a Thursday
  • Waitangi Day falls on a Monday
  • Daylight saving ends on its earliest possible date, April 1
  • ANZAC Day falls on a Wednesday
  • Mother's Day falls on May 13
  • Father's Day falls on September 2
  • Daylight saving begins on its latest possible date, September 30 in New Zealand and October 7 in Australia – this is the only leap year where the period of standard time over the winter months lasts 26 weeks in New Zealand and 27 weeks in Australia (in all other leap years, it lasts only 25 weeks in New Zealand and 26 weeks in Australia)

• • Saint David's Day falls on a Thursday
  • Mother's Day falls on March 4, March 11, March 18, March 25 or April 1
  • Saint Patrick's Day falls on a Saturday
  • Daylight saving begins on its earliest possible date, March 25
  • Saint George's Day falls on a Monday
  • Father's Day falls on June 17
  • Orangeman's Day falls on a Thursday
  • Daylight saving ends on October 28
  • Guy Fawkes Night falls on a Monday
  • Saint Andrew's Day falls on a Friday

• • Daylight saving begins on March 11
  • Mother's Day falls on May 13
  • Victoria Day falls on May 21
  • Father's Day falls on June 17
  • Canada Day falls on a Sunday
  • Labour Day falls on September 3
  • Thanksgiving Day falls on its earliest possible date, October 8
  • Daylight saving ends on November 4

• • Martin Luther King Jr. Day falls on January 16
  • President's Day falls on February 20
  • Daylight saving begins on March 11
  • Mother's Day falls on May 13
  • Memorial Day falls on May 28
  • Father's Day falls on June 17
  • Juneteenth falls on a Tuesday
  • Independence Day falls on a Wednesday
  • Labor Day falls on September 3
  • Grandparents' Day falls on September 9
  • Columbus Day falls on its earliest possible date, October 8
  • Daylight saving ends on November 4
  • Thanksgiving Day falls on its earliest possible date, November 22

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