1766

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• Sir Laurence Dundas buys Shetland and Orkney for 60,000 guineas

• Notable rains of ashes reported from Shetland as a result of major volcano activity on Iceland including the Hekla and the Bárdabunga volcanoes.

May

• 13th
  Robert Bruce (2), who became the sixth Laird Bruce of Symbister, was born.

1765 – 1767