Events Tagged: "abandonment"

Akhetaten founded - Akhenaten moves capital to virgin site, dedicated to Aten, abandons Thebes

Antonine Wall abandoned - Romans retreat to Hadrian's Wall as permanent frontier, Scotland never conquered

Las Médulas abandoned - gold exhausted after producing 1,635,000 kg, landscape permanently scarred, mountains collapsed

Dacia abandoned - Aurelian withdraws from Dacia, Roșia Montană gold mines lost, major economic blow to Rome

Augustine abandons Manichaeism - moves to Rome then Milan, influenced by skeptical philosophy before Christian conversion

Honorius tells Britons to defend themselves - Roman Emperor abandons Britain, end of Roman rule after 367 years

Rousseau begins affair with illiterate laundress Thérèse Levasseur; will abandon five children to foundling hospital