Common year starting on Wednesday

A **common year starting on Wednesday** is a common year that begins on Wednesday, January 1 and ends on Wednesday, December 31. Thus, its dominical letter is **E**.  Examples include 1986, 1997, 2003, 2014, 2025, and 2031 in the Gregorian calendar,
or likewise, 1998, 2009, 2015, and 2026 in the Julian calendar. 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 in the Gregorian calendar (see bottom tables).

In this common year, January and October begin on Wednesday, February, March and November begin on Saturday, April and July begin on Tuesday, May begins on Thursday, June begins on Sunday, August begins on Friday and September and December begin on Monday. Thus, there are four months that begin on a weekend day. This is one of four common years with this property, the others being Common year starting on Sunday, Common year starting on Monday and Common year starting on Thursday.

This common year is one of three common years with only one Friday the 13th, the others being Common year starting on Friday and Common year starting on Saturday. The Friday the 13th in this common year is in June. This characteristic is shared with a Leap year starting on Tuesday.

This common year is one of three common years with two Friday the 17ths, the other two being Common year starting on Thursday and Common year starting on Friday. The Friday the 17ths in this common year are in January and October.

This common year is one of three common years with only one Tuesday the 13th, the others being Common year starting on Sunday and Common year starting on Tuesday. The only Tuesday the 13th in this common year is in May. Leap years starting on Tuesday share this characteristic.

In this common year, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is on January 20, Valentine’s Day is on a Friday, Presidents Day is on February 17, Daylight Savings Time begins on March 9, St. Patrick’s Day is on a Monday, Mother’s Day is on May 11, Memorial Day is on May 26, Father’s Day is on its earliest possible date, June 15, Independence Day is on a Friday, Labor Day is on its earliest possible date, September 1, Columbus Day is on October 13, Halloween is on a Thursday, Daylight Savings Time ends on November 2, Veterans Day is on a Tuesday, Thanksgiving is on November 27, and Christmas is on a Thursday.

In a 400-year cycle in the Gregorian Calendar, 43 or 10.75% of all years are common years starting on Wednesday. Like all common years, they occur in a pattern of 6-11-11 years (e.g. 1997, 2003, 2014, 2025). However, this pattern gets broken when there is a century year that is not a leap year. Over the past 400-year cycle (from 1600 to 2000), there was a 12-year gap between 1698 and 1710, 6-year gaps between 1794, 1800 and 1806, and another 12-year gap between 1890 and 1902. In the Julian Calendar there are three common years starting on Wednesday in a 28-year cycle.

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