1783

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• The second Lerwick Parish Church was built.

• Beginning of the first British triangulation: Shetland to Isle of Wight line. Also known as The Principal Triangulation of Britain, it was a triangulation project carried out between 1783 and about 1853 at the instigation of the Director of the Ordnance Survey, General William Roy (1726-1790).

• Faroe, Orkney and Shetland were deluged with volcanic dust after the August 18th eruption of the Icelandic volcano, Skaptar-Jokull. Dust continued to drift in for many months. It destroyed crops in Caithness and that year was referred to locally as the year of "the ashie".

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