Portugal: Lisbon earthquake

Also: Ireland, Ukraine, Russia, Armenia, and Libya.

The Earthquake at Lisbon in 1755, unknown, coloured engraving in Georg Ludwig Hartwig's Volcanoes and Earthquakes, 1887, London.

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