Earthquake+at+Lisbon


 * 1) The **1755 Lisbon earthquake**, also known as the **Great Lisbon Earthquake**, was an[|earthquake] that took place on Saturday 1 November 1755, at around 9:40 in the morning. [|[1]]  The earthquake was followed by a [|tsunami] and [|fires], which caused near-total destruction of [|Lisbon] in the [|Kingdom of Portugal] , and adjoining areas.
 * 2) We thrill, for example, with the most intense of "pleasurable pain" over the accounts of the Passage of the [|Beresina], of the [|Earthquake at Lisbon], of the Plague at London, of the [|Massacre of St. Bartholomew], or of the stifling of the hundred and twenty-three prisoners in the [|Black Hole at Calcutta].
 * 3) [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/1755_Lisbon_Earthquake_Location.gif/240px-1755_Lisbon_Earthquake_Location.gif]]