1792
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January
- 16th
A vessel, name not known, capsized or foundered while crossing Yell Sound, with the loss of five lives.
February
- 19th
Arthur Anderson, founder of 'The Anderson Educational Institute', MP for Orkney and Shetland, was born.
May
- 4th
Poet and novelist Dorothea Primrose Campbell was born.
