An earthquake in Dubrovnik on April 6,…

An earthquake in Dubrovnik on April 6, 1667, is one of the two most devastating earthquakes to hit the area of modern Croatia in the last twenty-four hundred years, since records began.

The earthquake destroys almost the entire city and kills around three thousand people, one fifth of the population of the Republic of Ragusa.

The earthquake in the capital marks the beginning of the end of the Republic.