The Scottish Parliament considers the celebration of Burns Night each year to be a key cultural heritage event. Since then, suppers have been held on or about 25 January.
They held the first Burns supper on what they thought was his birthday, 29 January 1802, but in 1803, they discovered the Ayr parish records that noted his date of birth was actually 25 January 1759. The first still extant Burns Club was founded in Greenock in 1801 by merchants who were born in Ayrshire, some of whom had known Burns. The first supper was held in memoriam at Burns Cottage in Ayrshire by Burns's friends, on 21 July 1801, the fifth anniversary of his death it has been a regular occurrence ever since. Programme for an 1859 'Birth of Burns' event, held at Newcastle upon Tyne, England ( transcription)
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