diff --git a/src/ingest/dates.ts b/src/ingest/dates.ts
index d98b207..0a7e4e0 100644
--- a/src/ingest/dates.ts
+++ b/src/ingest/dates.ts
@@ -40,8 +40,19 @@ function iso(
     return null;
   }
   const date = new Date(Date.UTC(y, m - 1, d, hh, mm, ss, 0));
-  // Rejects impossible calendar dates such as February 30.
-  if (date.getUTCMonth() !== m - 1 || date.getUTCDate() !== d) return null;
+  // Rejects impossible calendar dates such as February 30 — and a year that did
+  // not survive the round trip. `Date.UTC` maps 0–99 into the 1900s, so a
+  // four-digit "0050" becomes 1950 with the month and day intact, which the two
+  // checks beside this one cannot see. Reading the year back is the same
+  // skip-rather-than-guess rule the rest of this module runs on, applied to the
+  // one field that was taken on trust.
+  if (
+    date.getUTCFullYear() !== y ||
+    date.getUTCMonth() !== m - 1 ||
+    date.getUTCDate() !== d
+  ) {
+    return null;
+  }
   return date.toISOString();
 }
 
diff --git a/test/dates.test.ts b/test/dates.test.ts
index 577a54d..e5b7c18 100644
--- a/test/dates.test.ts
+++ b/test/dates.test.ts
@@ -43,6 +43,20 @@ describe("parseMonthDayYear", () => {
   test("rejects an unknown month name", () => {
     expect(parseMonthDayYear("Smarch 3, 2026")).toBeNull();
   });
+
+  test("rejects a year that Date.UTC would silently move", () => {
+    // `Date.UTC` maps years 0–99 into the 1900s, so "0050" came back as 1950
+    // with the month and day intact — which the impossible-date guard cannot
+    // see, because nothing about the date is impossible. It is the same class of
+    // failure as February 30 rolling over to March 2: a boundary the source
+    // never stated, published as though it had.
+    expect(parseMonthDayYear("August 12, 0050")).toBeNull();
+    expect(parseMonthDayYear("August 12, 0099")).toBeNull();
+    // And a real four-digit year is untouched.
+    expect(parseMonthDayYear("August 12, 2026")?.iso).toBe(
+      "2026-08-12T00:00:00.000Z",
+    );
+  });
 });
 
 describe("parseMonthDayRange", () => {