1774
Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
- Happyhansel School Walls opened
June
- 19th
George Low arrived in Lerwick on his grand tour. He left Shetland early in September the same year. Unfortunately it took 100 years to get his account A Tour through the Islands of Orkney and Schetland published.
July
- 11th
Robert Jameson, later Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh, is born in Leith.
October
- The Providence (1774), laden with oil and rye, of Whitby, England from Archangel, Russia wrecked at 'Noss'. The Isle of Noss, Bressay being the most likely location.
