Show Origin of Leap Year The leap year Was was first Introduced into by Julius Caes Caesar r to provide for the six extra hours in each year However Caesar Cae sar and h his s astronomers as astronomers astronomers as- as were eleven minutes out In their reckoning the te result being that In the sixteenth centt century Y It t became necessary for Pope Gregory to Issue Is Issue Issue Is- Is sue a bull putting the date dat ahead eleven days in tn order that the calendar might catch up with the astronomical year To obviate further difficulties he decreed th that t only ye years rs r's divisible by 4 and not by and those divisible b by 4 0 shall bo be leap year having days Thus the year 1600 wa s a leap year and the year 2000 will bo ho the same but the years ears 1700 1100 1800 and 1800 1200 were not ot leap years |