Festival
| Location: | Maryborough (VIC) |
| Frequency: | Annually (➺ Info) |
| First edition: | 1858 (➺ Calculation WS) |
| Organisation: | Maryborough Highland Society |
| Website: | highlandsociety.com.au |
| Contact: | reception@highlandsociety.com.au |
| Info: | According to the website "Australia’s oldest continuous running sporting event", which "has been conducted each New Year since its formation in 1857 [!] with the enforced exception of the years of 1942-45 when the Australian Commonwealth was at war and the Highland Gathering went into recess for the duration of this national crisis". |
| Calculation: | Type 1b: In principle the year of the first edition is based, purely arithmetically, on the count of the numbered edition(s), i.e.: (a [= year of the most recent numbered edition] minus b [= number of that edition]) plus 1 = c [= the year after the mentioned recess: 1862], minus 4 [i.e. 1942-1945 (➺ Info)] = 1858 [i.e. the actual year of the 1st edition]. NB: A 1st anniversary = by definition the 2nd edition |