Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1920 — Leap Year Missed. [ARTICLE]

Leap Year Missed.

The rale used to teU If a year 1a er wad, a leap year la to divide it by Be figare < Kft may be done wfthoat a remainder it is generally guppeaed to prove that fee year to h leap yeaur. Thia la correct in respect <rf all yean eave la the caae of the 100 years, that is, the beginning of a century, as ITOO. 1800. 1900. In thoae years the teat ia to divide by 400. If these testa are applied to the last 100 years we shall fed the. year 1900 is not divisible by 400 and neither was the year 1800. Leap year occurred every four years after the year 1800 until 1898, but there was no leap year between 1796 and 1804 (a space of eight yearn). Neither was there a leap year between 18M and 1904.