1884
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- Shetland's rate of 4 1/2 illegitimate births per hundred ranks among the lowest of all districts in a report by The Registrar-General for Scotland.
- The number of turkeys in the isles was 86, geese 4463, ducks 7368, and poultry 87,113. Annual export of eggs around this time was estimated to be £30,000 a year.
- Shetland Knitters Repository set up in Edinburgh under the patronage of Lady Aberdeen with the aim of providing knitters with an outlet for selling their goods free of truck.
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February
- 5th & 8th
Charles Rampini, Sheriff-Substitute of Caithness, Orkney and Zetland, delivers two lectures on Shetland and the Shetlanders to the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh, later published by William Peace & Son of Kirkwall.
March
- 10th
The Skarphenden, a wooden hulled schooner of and for Iceland on her maiden voyage from Copenhagen, Denmark with a mixed general cargo wrecked at Dunrossness. Three of the crew were saved, two were lost.
April
- 1st
The Danish barque Alba of Copenhagen, with a general cargo, was wrecked on the Flaeshens of Sandwick.
May
- 19th
Peter Fraser (1884-1966), musician and founder member of the Shetland Fiddlers' Society, was born at Finnigirth, Walls.
August
- 27th
William Moffatt, author, born at Brunthill, Walls
December
- 16th
Andrew Stewart, author and father of George Stewart, dies
