1759
Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
- Burrastow House in Walls, West Mainland, was built.
January
- 5th
Margaret Bruce of Braewick, eldest daughter of Laurence Bruce, third Laird Bruce of Braewick, married Samuel Scollay, merchant in Lerwick.
July
- 15th
The Johanna Jakoba, a full rigged ship, laden with a cargo of sugar, of Copenhagen, Denmark, and for Denmark from the West Indies, wrecked on Lyra Skerry, Papa Stour during fog.
