centurial

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But there’s an exception to that: The centurial years that are exactly divisible by 400 are leap years.

From Los Angeles Times

In order to account for this, Leap Day is skipped on “centurial years not divisible by 400.”

From Fox News

Because the Julian calendar has a leap year in all years divisible by four—without excepting centurial years not divisible by 400, the way the Gregorian calendar does—the discrepancy between the Julian and Gregorian calendar changes periodically.

From Slate

So that after 28 years we come back to Friday again; and so on every 28 years, until change of style in 1582, when the Gregorian rule of intercalation being adopted by suppressing the intercalations in three centurial years out of four interrupts this order at the close of these three centuries.

From Project Gutenberg

The next centurial year that is exactly divisible by 19, is 3800.

From Project Gutenberg