Sources

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• Encyclopaedia Britannica, New Year festival
• Encyclopaedia Britannica, Hogmanay
• Encyclopaedia Britannica, Auld Lang Syne
• Encyclopaedia Britannica, Janus
• Encyclopaedia Britannica, Gregorian calendar
• Scotland's People, Dates (National Records of Scotland)
• Calendar (New Style) Act 1750, legislation.gov.uk
• Culture Vannin / Chiollagh Books, The Quaaltagh: The Later Newspaper Accounts (1901-61), including Cregeen 1835

Britannica's New Year festival article gives "Scotland in 1660" among the countries that restored 1 January. Scotland's People, the official family-history site of the National Records of Scotland, says the first official New Year on that date in Scotland was 1 January 1600. We report both, and we do not silently "correct" either figure.

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