Historical place archive

Shetlands in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Shetlands in Denmark. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people1468–1468

Historical events in Shetlands

1468

1468
Rule of Shetlands
Christian I · House of Oldenburg

Cedes the Shetlands in exchange for the marriage of his daughter Margaret to James III

Provenance

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