1844
Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
- The Böd of Nesbister was built by Hay & Company
February
April
- 26th
Author Laurence J. Nicolson was born.
August
- 18th
The Haabet (1844), a Sloop, shipwrecked in Bigton Wick, Bigton.
September
- 2nd
Election of the Lerwick Town Council. - 28th
Sir Robert Stout born
October
- An unidentified full rigged ship, registered in New York, U.S.A and laden with a cargo of timber, wrecked in the Bay of Quendale, Dunrossness.
- The Zephyr, a sail sloop of Lerwick and laden with a cargo of bricks, wrecked in Lunda Wick, Unst. All of the crew were saved.