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February 29 occurs whenever there is a leap year - that is, when the year is divisible by 4. In those cases when a year is divisible by 100, but not by 400, the year is not a leap year. For example, although 2000 was a leap year, 2100 will not be, nor will 2200 or 2300.

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Because each leap year it has an extra day and this year of 2016 is a leap year.

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