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Year 1400 was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The year 1400 was not a leap year in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar, it was a common year starting on Wednesday. The leap year began on a Thursday, and it ended on a Friday.
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1400 (MCD) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1400th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 400th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 14th century, and the 1st year of the 1400s decade.
Feb 29, 2016 · The phrase “leap year,” which probably refers to the jump in days of the week—a calendar date usually moves forward one day of the week per year, but it moves two days in a leap year—predates the...
- Merrill Fabry
6 days ago · Gregorian calendar, solar dating system now in general use. It was proclaimed in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII as a reform of the Julian calendar. The Gregorian calendar differs from the Julian only in that no century year is a leap year unless it is exactly divisible by 400 (e.g., 2000).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- The Gregorian calendar is a solar dating system used by most of the world. It is named for Pope Gregory XIII, who issued the papal bull Inter gravi...
- Although the Julian calendar was the dominant European dating system for more than 1,600 years, its solar year measurements (365.25 days versus the...
- The Gregorian calendar was adopted by much of Catholic Europe in 1582, as directed by Pope Gregory XIII in the papal bull Inter gravissimas, which...
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