TWENTIETH CENTURY CALENDAR FACTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 129, 1 June 1901, Page 6 (Supplement)

TWENTIETH CENTURY CALENDAR FACTS.

The twentieth century opened on & Tuesday, and will close on a Sunday. It will have the greatest number of leap years possible for century—twenty four. The year 1904 will be the first one; then every fourth year after that to and including the year 2COO. February will three times have five Sundays — In 1920, 1948, and 1976. The same yearly calendar that was used in 1895 can be used again this year. Though one of the objects aimed at by the Church authorities who fixed upon the method of determining the date of Easter was to prevent its recurrence on the same day as the Jewish passover.v nevertheless the two events will occur together four times in the twentieth century—April 12th, 1903; April Ist, 1923? April 17th, 1927; and April 19th, 19S1. The twentieth century will contain 36,525 days, which lacks but one day of being exactly 521S weeks. The middle day of the century will be January Ist, 1951. The day of the week that will not occur as often as each of the others is Monday. Fifteen out of the hundred years will begin on Wednesday, and tn© same number:;- on Friday. Fourteen will begin on eacli|)f the other days of the week. As to in the century, there will be about 380 of them, the number of solar being to the number of lunar in about the ratio of four to three. What is of very rare occurrence in a calendar year will happen in 1935, the first time since 1823 — namely, seven eclipses, the largest possible ' number that can happen in a year. There will also occur twelve transits of Mercury, the first being1 on November 12th, 1907. A transit of Venus, however, which is of much more consequence, will r,ot occur within the century. The earliest fiafe predicted is June Bth, 2C04.