When is the year of the dog 20? - briefly
The Year of the Dog in the Chinese Zodiac occurs every 12 years. The most recent Year of the Dog was in 2018 and the next one will be in 2030.
When is the year of the dog 20? - in detail
The Chinese Zodiac, which is based on a twelve-year cycle, assigns an animal and its associated attributes to each year in that cycle. Among these animals, the Dog is the eleventh in this sequence. To determine when the next Year of the Dog will be the 20th occurrence since the establishment of the Chinese calendar, we need to calculate backwards from the present year.
The current cycle began with the Year of the Rat in 1984. Therefore, the Years of the Dog within this cycle are as follows: 1986, 1998, 2010, and 2022. This means that the Year of the Dog has occurred four times since 1984.
Looking further back, we can establish that each complete twelve-year cycle contains exactly one Year of the Dog. To find out how many cycles have passed before the current one, we divide the number of years from the start of the Chinese calendar (traditionally considered to be 2637 BCE) up to 1984 by 12. This calculation gives us approximately 450 twelve-year cycles.
Therefore, adding the four occurrences in the current cycle to the 450 from previous cycles, we get a total of 454 Years of the Dog. To find when the 20th Year of the Dog will be, we need to go back another 434 years from the most recent Year of the Dog (2022).
This calculation leads us to the year 1588. Thus, the 20th Year of the Dog since the establishment of the Chinese calendar was in 1588.