noun
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The science of determining the order in which events occurred.
definition
An arrangement of events into chronological order; called a timeline when involving graphical elements.
Examples of chronologies in a Sentence
Little certainty, however, can be allowed to these traditional chronologies.
It is no longer necessary, however, to discuss these chronologies.
The dating of stalagmitic calcite therefore provides a valuable method for understanding cave chronologies.
Chronologies based solely on pottery typologies, with all the built-in temporal assumptions, are not, by themselves, sufficient anymore.
But it should not be forgotten that to many generations of close scholarship these genealogical lists seemed to convey such knowledge in the most precise terms, and that at so recent a date as, for example, the year in which Queen Victoria came to the throne, it was nothing less than a rank heresy to question the historical accuracy and finality of chronologies which had no other source or foundation.
This period might no doubt be reduced to 480 years by the supposition, in itself not improbable, that some of the judges were local and contemporaneous; the suggestion has also been made that, as is usual in Oriental chronologies, the years of foreign domination were not counted, the beginning of each judge's rule being reckoned, not from the victory which brought him into power, but from the death of his predecessor; we should in this case obtain for the period from the Exodus to the foundation of the Temple 440+x+y years,' which if 30 years be assigned con 1 Petrie, Hist.
Thus he vacillates between the Catonian and Varronian reckoning of the years of the city, and between the chronologies of Polybius and the Roman annalists.
What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all written revelations?