1845
Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
- Professor of Botany at Andersons University, Glasgow, Thomas Edmondston publishes "The Flora of Shetland".
- An unidentified vessel, registered in Shetland, operating as a packet boat and laden with a cargo of potatoes, is recorded as having been wrecked 'near Troswick', Dunrossness c. 1845
April
- An unidentified vessel wrecked on Papa Stour.
May
- Wreckage from an unidentified vessel, or vessels reported washed ashore at Papa Stour and Scalloway.
September
- 2nd
A thick layer of volcanic ash from the eruption of Iceland's Hekla reached Orkney and Shetland in ten hours.
The eruption lasted for 7 months.
[[1]] Icelandic information here
[[2]] details of other Hekla eruptions
- 22nd
1540 caain whales were driven ashore at Quendale Sand, Dunrossness, and killed within 2 hours.
