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Chronology

Meaning in history, with examples

/krəˈnɒlədʒi/nounCore term

In history, chronology means: The order in which events happened, or a list or table that sets out events and their dates in that order.

In Turkish: kronoloji, tarih sırası, zaman dizini

How it is used

Historians establish, reconstruct or revise a chronology, and many books include one at the end. The adjective chronological appears in phrases such as in chronological order and a chronological framework.

Example sentences

  1. The chronology of the early Ottoman rulers is uncertain in places, because the first chronicles were written much later.

  2. Arrange the main events of the revolution in chronological order.

Common collocations

  • chronological order
  • establish a chronology
  • a detailed chronology
  • relative chronology
  • periodA length of time in history that historians treat as a unit because it has its own typical features, such as the Tudor period or the Tanzimat period.
  • centuryA period of one hundred years; in history, usually one of the numbered hundred-year blocks of the calendar, such as the sixteenth century.
  • periodizationThe dividing of the past into named periods, such as antiquity and the Middle Ages, and the debate about where the boundaries between them should fall.
  • radiocarbon datingA scientific method that estimates the age of organic material such as wood, bone or seeds by measuring how much radioactive carbon-14 is left in it.

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