Earthquake 1755 also known by Earthquake of Lisbon, it happened on November 1, 1755 at 9:20 in the morning, resulting in the destruction almost it completes of the
city of Lisbon, and still reaching great part of the coast of Algarve.It was one of the deadliest sismos of the History, marking what some historians call the prehistory of
Modern Europe. The modern geologists esteem that the sismo of 1755 reached 9 grades in the scale Richter. Terramoto of Lisbon had an enormous political impact and social-económic in the Portuguese partnership of the Century XVIII, creating the first scientific studies of the effect of a terramoto in an enlarged area, marking like this the birth of the modern Seismology. The event was discussed broadly by the philosophers iluminists, like Voltaire, inspiring significant developments in the domain of the theodicy and of the philosophy of the sublime.The seaquakes originated by the movement tectonic scanned from of the
north of Africa to the north of Europe, namely to Finland and through Atlantic Ocean, as
distant as Martinique local afect and Barbados.The ruins of the Convent of Carmo still today can be visited downtown.Historical Regists of the trips of Vasco of Gama and Christopher Columbus were lost, and countless constructions were the
king''s satiny (including many copies of the arquitecture of the period Manuelino in Portugal) .A absence in the capital was due comfortable of the princesses of passing the holiday out of the city.D. José I won a phobia to closed enclosures and he lived the rest of his/her life in a luxurious compound of tents in the High of the Aid, denominated as Real hut of the Aid, in Lisbon.The minister Marquês of the Pombal was the favorite of the king but not of the pleasure of the high nobility, that competed for the
power and favors of the monarch. After November 1, the efficacy of the response of Marquês of the Dovecote (whose title is attributed him/her in 1770) guarantees him/her a larger power and influence before the king, that also takes advantage to reinforce his/her power and to consolidate the Absolutism.For besides the aggravation of the political tensions in Portugal, the destruction of the city of Lisbon frustrated many of the colonial ambitions of the Portuguese Empire of then.Be noticed that this interpretation of Theodor Adorno serves as illustration to his/her interpretation of the history, that is plenty critic of the modern partnership and associated to an ideological view no very distant of the Marxism.
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