Lisbon earthquake
1755 · Event
A quake, tsunami and fire destroy Lisbon and kill tens of thousands, shaking Enlightenment faith in a benevolent order.
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Around 1755
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Storming of the Bastille (1789)
- First British settlement in Australia (1788)
- Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770)
- George Washington (1732)