<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Scotland" id="mwiw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kingdom of Scotland">Scotland</a> recognises January 1 as the start of the year, instead of March 25.<sup about="#mwt88" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-15"}}' id="cite_ref-15" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_1#cite_note-15" id="mwjA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 15;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwjQ">[15]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-15"><cite about="#mwt85" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFLindsay1899"><a href="./Robert_Lindsay_of_Pitscottie" id="mwDTM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie">Lindsay, Robert</a> (1899). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=XK9HAAAAYAAJ" id="mwDTQ" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwDTU">The Historie and Cronicles of Scotland: From the Slauchter of King James the First to the Ane Thousande Fyve Hundreith Thrie Scoir Fyftein Zeir</i></a>. Society.</cite><span about="#mwt85" class="Z3988" id="mwDTY" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Historie+and+Cronicles+of+Scotland%3A+From+the+Slauchter+of+King+James+the+First+to+the+Ane+Thousande+Fyve+Hundreith+Thrie+Scoir+Fyftein+Zeir&amp;rft.pub=Society&amp;rft.date=1899&amp;rft.aulast=Lindsay&amp;rft.aufirst=Robert&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DXK9HAAAAYAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+1"></span></span>