> The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon earthquake, impacted Portugal, the Iberian Peninsula, and Northwest Africa on the morning of Saturday, 1 November, Feast of All Saints, at around 09:40 local time.
> In combination with subsequent fires and a tsunami, the earthquake almost totally destroyed Lisbon and adjoining areas. Seismologists today estimate the Lisbon earthquake had a magnitude of at least 8.4 on the moment magnitude scale, with its epicenter in the Atlantic Ocean about 200 km (120 mi) west-southwest of Cape St. Vincent and about 290 km (180 mi) southwest of Lisbon. Chronologically it was the third known large scale earthquake to hit the city (there had been one in 1321 and another in 1531). Estimates place the death toll in Lisbon alone at between 30,000 and 50,000 people, making it one of the deadliest earthquakes in history.
> The earthquake accentuated political tensions in Portugal and profoundly disrupted the country’s colonial ambitions. The event was widely discussed and dwelt upon by European Enlightenment philosophers, and inspired major developments in theodicy. As the first earthquake studied scientifically for its effects over a large area, it led to the birth of modern seismology and earthquake engineering.
To this day still the most destructive thing that happened to Portugal ever.
I think this was in the game Assassin’s Creed Rouge
An event so destructive and unfathomable (as it occured on an important Christian holiday) that it sparked a debate about evil within the budding enlightenment community.
Kant, after hearing about it, tried to work out a scientific explanation for earthquakes, and Voltair used it to argue against optimism.
This earthquake had a deep repercussion in everything Portuguese, from the religiousness of the government to the Jesuits in the colonies. In Brazil it sparked wars.
They say Lisbon was comparable to Rome in its unfathomable beauty and architecture, but most of it was destroyed in this day. One of the few survivors is the Torre de Belém. We can only gaze upon it and wonder what Lisbon was like. Portugal never fully recovered.
The earthquake was so strong It shattered church windows 300 km away. It was downright apocalyptic in lisbon
Wasn’t it the beginning of a wave of atheism in Portugal? Church tried to instrumentalise the earthquake and it’s victims and people became really mad about church. I remember to have read something like this when I was in Lisbon.
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Wiki page [here](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake).
> The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon earthquake, impacted Portugal, the Iberian Peninsula, and Northwest Africa on the morning of Saturday, 1 November, Feast of All Saints, at around 09:40 local time.
> In combination with subsequent fires and a tsunami, the earthquake almost totally destroyed Lisbon and adjoining areas. Seismologists today estimate the Lisbon earthquake had a magnitude of at least 8.4 on the moment magnitude scale, with its epicenter in the Atlantic Ocean about 200 km (120 mi) west-southwest of Cape St. Vincent and about 290 km (180 mi) southwest of Lisbon. Chronologically it was the third known large scale earthquake to hit the city (there had been one in 1321 and another in 1531). Estimates place the death toll in Lisbon alone at between 30,000 and 50,000 people, making it one of the deadliest earthquakes in history.
> The earthquake accentuated political tensions in Portugal and profoundly disrupted the country’s colonial ambitions. The event was widely discussed and dwelt upon by European Enlightenment philosophers, and inspired major developments in theodicy. As the first earthquake studied scientifically for its effects over a large area, it led to the birth of modern seismology and earthquake engineering.
To this day still the most destructive thing that happened to Portugal ever.
I think this was in the game Assassin’s Creed Rouge
An event so destructive and unfathomable (as it occured on an important Christian holiday) that it sparked a debate about evil within the budding enlightenment community.
Kant, after hearing about it, tried to work out a scientific explanation for earthquakes, and Voltair used it to argue against optimism.
This earthquake had a deep repercussion in everything Portuguese, from the religiousness of the government to the Jesuits in the colonies. In Brazil it sparked wars.
They say Lisbon was comparable to Rome in its unfathomable beauty and architecture, but most of it was destroyed in this day. One of the few survivors is the Torre de Belém. We can only gaze upon it and wonder what Lisbon was like. Portugal never fully recovered.
The earthquake was so strong It shattered church windows 300 km away. It was downright apocalyptic in lisbon
Wasn’t it the beginning of a wave of atheism in Portugal? Church tried to instrumentalise the earthquake and it’s victims and people became really mad about church. I remember to have read something like this when I was in Lisbon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql8kvZmYF7s
It was one of the biggest tragedies in Western history.
But hey, it really is the best of all possible worlds. /s