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en-wikipedia-org-3279		Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4559	421	65	Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal Wikipedia A liberal reformer influenced by the Age of Enlightenment, Pombal led Portugal's recovery from the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and modernized the kingdom's administrative, economic, and ecclesiastical institutions. In 1738, with his uncle's assistance,[4] Pombal received his first public appointment as the Portuguese ambassador to Great Britain, where, in 1740, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[5]This author points out that Carvalho e Melo used his circulation among influential people to "investigate the causes, techniques, and mechanisms of British commercial and naval power."[6] In 1745, he served as the Portuguese ambassador to Austria. The need to grow a manufacturing sector in Portugal was made more imperative by the excessive spending of the Portuguese crown, the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, the expenditures on wars with Spain for South American territories, and the exhaustion of gold mines and diamond mines in Brazil.[9] Having become the Marquis of Pombal in 1770, he effectively ruled Portugal until Joseph I's death in 1777.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3279.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3279.txt