1849
Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
- First Meal Roads begun
- St. Olaf's Hall was built.
November
- 17th
John Cathcart Wason, MP for Orkneyand Shetland was born.
December
- 8th
The Michelet, a full rigged ship laden with a cargo of oak planks and deals, of Danzig, Prussia (now Gdansk, Poland), for Portsmouth, England, drifted ashore derelict and wecked on Sumburgh Head.
