Magnitude 8.5 earthquake in Portugal: Lisbon · about 50,000 deaths
Natural disaster
1755 Lisbon earthquake
Magnitude 8.5 earthquake in Portugal: Lisbon · about 50,000 deaths
- 1 November 1755
- Europe
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