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The King of Portugal survived the Lisbon Earthquake which razed his capital to the ground, but was so traumatized that he avoided living in stone buildings for the rest of his life. What was the extent of his psychological trauma, and did it contribute to the downfall of his multicontinental Empire?

by /u/fan_of_the_pikachu in /r/AskHistorians

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