Common year starting on Wednesday

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A common year starting on Wednesday is any non-leap year (a year with 365 days) that begins on Wednesday, January 1, and ends on Wednesday, December 31. Its dominical letter hence is E. The current year, 2025, is a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar, and the next such year will be 2031,^[1] or, likewise, 2015 and 2026 in the obsolete Julian calendar, see below for more. This common year is one of the three possible common years in which a century year can begin on, and occurs in century years that yield a remainder of 200 when divided by 400. The most recent such year was 1800, and the next one will be 2200.

Any common year that starts on Wednesday has only one Friday the 13th: the only one in this common year occurs in June. Leap years starting on Tuesday share this characteristic.

This year has four months (February, March, June and November) which begin on a weekend-day.

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Gregorian Calendar

In the (currently used) Gregorian calendar, alongside Sunday, Monday, Friday or Saturday, the fourteen types of year (seven common, seven leap) repeat in a 400-year cycle (20871 weeks). Forty-three common years per cycle or exactly 10.75% start on a Wednesday. The 28-year sub-cycle only spans across century years divisible by 400, e.g. 1600, 2000, and 2400.

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Gregorian common years starting on Wednesday^[1]
Decade	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
16th century	prior to first adoption (proleptic)	1586	1597
17th century	1603	1614	1625	1631	1642	1653	1659	1670	—	1681	1687	1698
18th century	1710	—	1721	1727	1738	1749	1755	1766	1777	1783	1794	1800
19th century	1806	1817	1823	1834	1845	1851	1862	1873	1879	1890	—
20th century	1902	1913	1919	1930	—	1941	1947	1958	1969	1975	1986	1997
21st century	2003	2014	2025	2031	2042	2053	2059	2070	—	2081	2087	2098
22nd century	2110	—	2121	2127	2138	2149	2155	2166	2177	2183	2194	2200
23rd century	2206	2217	2223	2234	2245	2251	2262	2273	2279	2290	—
24th century	2302	2313	2319	2330	—	2341	2347	2358	2369	2375	2386	2397

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400-year cycle
0–99	3	14	25	31	42	53	59	70	81	87	98
100–199	110	121	127	138	149	155	166	177	183	194
200–299	200	206	217	223	234	245	251	262	273	279	290
300–399	302	313	319	330	341	347	358	369	375	386	397

Julian Calendar

In the now-obsolete Julian calendar, the fourteen types of year (seven common, seven leap) repeat in a 28-year cycle (1461 weeks). A leap year has two adjoining dominical letters (one for January and February and the other for March to December, as 29 February has no letter). This sequence occurs exactly 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 ((year + 8) mod 28) + 1). Years 2, 8 and 19 of the cycle are common years beginning on Wednesday. 2017 is year 10 of the cycle. Approximately 10.71% of all years are common years beginning on Wednesday.

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Julian common years starting on Wednesday
Decade	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
15th century	1410	—	1421	1427	1438	1449	1455	1466	1477	1483	1494
16th century	1505	1511	1522	1533	1539	1550	—	1561	1567	1578	1589	1595
17th century	1606	1617	1623	1634	1645	1651	1662	1673	1679	1690	—
18th century	1701	1707	1718	1729	1735	1746	1757	1763	1774	1785	1791
19th century	1802	1813	1819	1830	—	1841	1847	1858	1869	1875	1886	1897
20th century	1903	1914	1925	1931	1942	1953	1959	1970	—	1981	1987	1998
21st century	2009	2015	2026	2037	2043	2054	2065	2071	2082	2093	2099