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All-In-One Perpetual Calendar: 400 year Gregorian style

Which components do you know: day, date, month, year? If you know three, you can find the fourth. This calendar
is extremely easy to use, although it looks pretty scary at first glance. First off, a note about leap years. Leap
years are in bold. You need to pay attention to those because you use the January and February in bold for leap
years. Use the normal type January and February for all other years.
Day of the week: Olivia was born June 30, 1962 and wants to know what day of the week that was. The column
for June and the row for 30 cross at the letter C. Finding 1962 in the bottom of the table, she sees the letter C
above it is in the row for Saturday.
Month: How many times did the superstitious have to worry about Friday the 13th in 1903? The column where
1903 resides is intersected by the row for Friday at the letter G. In the row for 13, G is underneath the normal year
February, March and November. So there were three occurrences of Friday the 13th in 1903. The year wasn't a
leap year. If you were looking up something like this for a leap year, you would ignore the normal February entry
and consider only the bold February.
Date: When did the American Thanksgiving fall in 2000? It's been held on the fourth Thursday of November for
many decades. In 2000's column, across from Thursday is the letter D. Under November, the letter D appears in
the same row as 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30. So November 23rd was Thanksgiving in 2000.
Year: What years had or will have a Thursday, July 4th? July and 4 meet at F. In the row for Thursday, F is above
1957, 1963, 1968, and many other years. If looking up the possible years for a month-date-day combination in
January or February, remember to be careful about leap years. As an examle, consider Tuesday, January 19th.
The normal year January and 19 cross at D. In the row for Tuesday, D is above the normal years 1965, 1971,
1982. The bold leap year January and 19 cross at E. In the row for Tuesday, E is above the leap years 1960,
1988, 2016, etc.
If you cross-reference the components out of order, your results will be wrong most of the time. They'll be right
some of the time and may give you a false feeling that you're doing it right. If you know the month and date, cross
them first. If you know the year and day of the week, cross them first.

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All-In-One Perpetual Calendar (Gregorian)

Cross month
and date
together

Jan
Oct

Apr
Jul
Jan

Sep
Dec

Jun

Feb
Mar
Nov

Aug
Feb

May

1 8 15 22 29

Mon

2 9 16 23 30

Tues

3 10 17 24 31

Wed

4 11 18 25

Thurs

5 12 19 26

Fri

6 13 20 27

Sat

7 14 21 28

Sun

1798 1799 1800 1801

1804 1805 1806 1807
1810 1811
1812
1817
1818
1816
1821 1822 1823
1827
1828 1829
1832 1833 1834 1835
1838 1839
1840
1844 1845 1846
1849 1850 1851
1855
1856 1857
1860 1861 1862 1863
1866 1867
1868
1872 1873
1877 1878 1879
1883
1884
1888 1889 1890
1894 1895
1900 1901 1902
1906 1907
1912 1913
1917 1918 1919
1923
1924
1928 1929 1930
1934 1935

1802 1803
1808
1813 1814
1819
1824 1825
1830 1831
1836
1841 1842
1847
1852 1853
1858 1859
1864
1869 1870

1874 1875
1880
1885 1886
1891
1896 1897
1903
1908 1909
1914 1915
1920
1925 1926
1931
1936 1937

1809
1815
1820
1826

Cross
day
1837
and
1843 year
1848 together
1854
1865
1871

1876
1881 1882
1887
1892 1893
Cross
1898 1899
day
1904 1905
and
1910 1911
year
1916
together
1921 1922
1927
1932 1933
1938 1939

1940 1941 1942 1943

1944
1945 1946 1947
1948 1949 1950
1951
1952 1953 1954 1955
1956 1957
1962 1963
1968
1973 1974
1979
1984 1985
1990 1991

1958 1959
1964
1969 1970
1975
1980 1981
1986 1987
1992

Cross
day
1960 1961
1965 1966 1967
and
1971
1972 year
1976 1977 1978 together
1982 1983
1988 1989
1993 1994 1995

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1996 1997 1998 1999

2001 2002 2003
2004
2007
2008 2009 2010
2012 2013 2014 2015
2018 2019
2020 2021
2024 2025 2026 2027
2029 2030 2031
2032
2035
2036 2037 2038
2040 2041 2042 2043
2046 2047
2048 2049

2000
2005 2006
2011
Cross
2016 2017
day
2022 2023
and
2028
year
2033 2034
together
2039
2044 2045
2050 2051

2052 2053 2054 2055

2057 2058 2059
2060
2063
2065
2066
2064
2068 2069 2070 2071
2074 2075
2076 2077
2080 2081 2082 2083
2085 2086 2087
2088
2091
2092 2093 2094
2096 2097 2098 2099 2100
2103
2104 2105 2106
2108 2109 2110 2111
2114 2115
2116 2117

2056
2061 2062
2067
2072 2073
Cross
2078 2079
day
2084
and
2089 2090
year
2095
together
2101 2102
2107
2112 2113
2118 2119

2120 2121
2125 2126 2127
2131
2132
2136 2137 2138
2142 2143
2148 2149
2153 2154 2155
2159
2160
2164 2165 2166
2170 2171

2122 2123
2128
2133 2134
2139
2144 2145
2150 2151
2156
2161 2162
2167
2172 2173

2124
2129 2130
2135
Cross
2140 2141
day
2146 2147
and
2152
year
2157 2158
together
2163
2168 2169
2174 2175

2176 2177
2181 2182 2183
2187
2188
2192 2193 2194
2198 2199 2200

2178 2179
2184
2189 2190
2195
2201 2202

2180 Cross
2185 2186
day
2191
and
year
2196 2197
2203
together

This style of perpetual calendar appeared in the Information Please Almanac at least as far
back as the 1960s. You can extend this calendar's coverage forward or backward indefinitely
by adding or subtracting 400 for each year entry and using that number instead of the year
shown. In other words, 2002 has the same calendar as 1602, 2402, and 2802 under the
Gregorian system. Be careful doing this. The Gregorian calendar wasn't adopted everywhere
at the same time. You could look up a day of the week for an event in the 1600s British Empire
and you'd be wrong!

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