1. to arrange events or items in the order they occurred in time
Usage: transitive verb; formal or academic usage
2. to record or establish the chronology of; to determine the dates of historical events
Usage: transitive verb; historical or scholarly context

Examples

• The historian worked to chronologize the ancient manuscripts based on linguistic evidence.
• We need to chronologize these documents before we can understand the sequence of events.
• The archivist chronologized the letters to create a clear timeline of the author's life.
• By chronologizing the archaeological findings, researchers could reconstruct the settlement's history.
• The biographer chronologized her subject's travels across three continents.
• To chronologize the events accurately, we consulted multiple primary sources.