1733
Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
- Hillswick Kirk was built.
- Dutch East Indiaman Rijnenburg wrecked at Baltasound. The salvage from the wreck was stored in Muness Castle.
- Thomas Gifford of Busta, Stuart & Justiciar-Depute of Zetland, writes "A Historical Description of The Zetland Islands".
- Robert Bruce, seventh Laird of Sumburgh, married Alicia, daughter of Sir John Dalmahoy, of that Ilk, Bart.
May
- 7th
Robert (3) Hunter of Lunna, the fifth Laird Hunter of Lunna House, was born.
December
- An unidentified sail sloop, laden with a cargo of fish (herring), regsitered in Anstruther, Fife, Scotland and in passage from an unidentified port on the Moray Firth, Scotland, for Gothenburg, Sweden, wrecked on Noss, or possibly an unidentified Ness on Whalsay.
