On the morning of November 1st, 1755, the citizens of Lisbon, Portugal set out to go to church for the feast of all Saints Day.

Little did they know that moments later, their lives and the lives of everyone in Lisbon were about to be turned upside down

and that the city of Lisbon would almost cease to exist.

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There have been many large earthquakes throughout history.

Many of them share very common stories in terms of the devastation in which they left behind.

What sets the great Lisbon earthquake apart from other such disasters is that it was really three different disasters that hit the city on the same day.

All three disasters had the same genesis, but the sequence in which they hit the city made the day far more deadly

than it would have been otherwise.

As I mentioned in the introduction, November 1st was a holy day on the Catholic calendar,

which meant that everyone was supposed to attend church that morning.

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