1890

Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia

• Andrew T. Cluness was born.
• Writer Willa Muir was born.
• Shetland Pony Stud-Book Society formed.
• The number of horses and ponies was reported at 4,803, of which 787 were used for agriculture and 4,016 were unbroken and used solely for breeding.

February

• 8th
  Election of first County Council.

May

• Diana memorial fountain inaugurated.

June

• 4th
  The Court of Session reached a verdict, in favour of the captors, in the case of the 340 whales captured at Hoswick in September 1888

July

• 24th
  Wooden fishing smack Southern Air sank at a position approx 6 miles SE of Voe, Dunrossness following a collision with the Lerwick vessel Brucklay Castle.

September

• 29th
  The wooden hulled smack Star Of The East broke from moorings in Wadbister Voe in storm conditions and wrecked on Girlsta Point, Wadbister Voe, as did the wooden hulled smack Little Nell from her's in Bressay Sound and wrecked on the Skade Rocks, Bressay.

1889<->1891