next 120 days, finally ceasing on February 13. An estimated 1.5 cubic kilometers (1.5 billion cubic meters or 53 billion cubic feet) of tephra is discharged by the volcano. October 25 – Yirmisekizzade Mehmed Said Pasha becomes the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, the fifth person to serve as the Empire's Vizier in 1755. November 1 – More than 40,000 people are killed by the 8.5 magnitude earthquake in Lisbon, Portuguese Empire. The tremor begins at 9:40 in the morning local time off of the Atlantic coast of Portugal and sends a tsunami that strikes the coasts of Portugal, Spain and Morocco. November 18 Corsican Constitution adopted by Corsican representatives at the Consulta generale di Corte. The 1755 Cape Ann earthquake occurs in the vicinity of Cape Ann, Massachusetts, causing extensive damage. November 25 – King Ferdinand VI of Spain grants the Religious of the Virgin Mary in the Philippines royal protection. December 2 – The second Eddystone Lighthouse off the coast of England is destroyed by fire. December 17 – Anton, Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church, is dismissed by his opponents on the Ecclesiastical Council and briefly imprisoned for 18 months before being allowed to move to Russia; in 1764, Anton is again made the Georgian Orthodox Church's leader. Date unknown Wolsey, the clothes manufacturer, is established in Leicester, England; the business celebrates its 250th anniversary in 2005. Construction of the Puning Temple complex in Chengde, China is completed, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor. Construction of St Ninian's Church, Tynet, Scotland, the country's oldest surviving post-Reformation Roman Catholic clandestine church, is completed. The brine shrimp Artemia salina is first described, in Linnaeus' Systema Naturæ.</onlyinclude> Births January 25 – Paolo Mascagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1815) January 28 – Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, German physician, anatomist (d. 1830) February 5 – Caroline Müller, Danish operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer (d. 1826) February 11 – Albert Christoph Dies, German composer (d. 1822) February 21 – Anne Grant, Scottish poet (d. 1838) March 24 – Rufus King, American lawyer, politician and diplomat (d. 1827) April 3 – Simon Kenton, American frontiersman, Revolutionary Militia General (d. 1836) April 10 – Samuel Hahnemann, German founder of homeopathy (d. 1843) April 11 – James Parkinson, English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist and political activist (d. 1824) April 16 – Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter (d. 1842) June 6 – Nathan