1768

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  • Thomas Dundas elected as MP for Orkney & Shetland.
  • The vessel Mary (1768) wrecked at an unidentified location in Northmavine.
  • An unidentified brig stranded at Sand Wick.

March

  • 17th
    Robert (4) Hunter of Lunna, who became the sixth Laird Hunter of Lunna House, was born.
  • 30th
    Robert Bruce, youngest son of Laurence, third and last Laird Bruce of Braewick, disposed Braewick to Samuel Scollay, his brother-in-law, who had married his older sister Margaret in 1759.
1767<->1769
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