Solar cycle (Julian)
About the Solar cycle (Julian)
In the Julian calendar the pattern of weekdays and dates repeats every 28 years, the product of the 7-day week and the 4-year leap cycle. Medieval computists tracked a year's place in it with dominical letters. It is one of the three cycles Scaliger multiplied to form the 7980-year Julian Period.
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