1794

Brebner & Co of Aberdeen offered a new postal service between Lerwick and Aberdeen at £120 per year. Their offer was accepted by both the Post Office and a group of Lerwick merchants who equally shared the costs per year.
The Resolution (1794), a revenue cutter, registered in the United Kingdom, wrecked on the Baa of North Lagga Sound, Out Skerries.
The Belvidoch, from Copenhagen, Denmark went ashore at Garthsbanks in the Bay of Quendale.
Nesting Kirk was built.

June

3rd
Thomas Dundas (2nd), MP of Orkney and Shetland, died of yellow fever in Guadelupe.

Pylades, a 16 gun Royal Navy vessel commanded by Thomas Twisden was wrecked at Haroldswick. The crew was saved.

4th
Robert (3) Hunter of Lunna, the fifth Laird Hunter of Lunna House died.
18th
Robert Bruce (2), who later became the sixth Laird Bruce of Symbister, married Ursilla Catherine, daughter of John Bruce of Sumburgh.
21st
The Jeany and Peggy, a brigantine laden with a mixed cargo of tallow, flax and iron goods, of either Dundee or St Andrews Scotland, from St Petersburg, Russia and for Dundee, Scotland wrecked at Scat Ness, all of the crew were lost and the cargo was plundered.