1. the arrangement of events or dates in the order in which they occurred
2. a record or table of events arranged in order of time
3. the science of arranging time in periods and ascertaining the dates and historical order of past events
Usage: academic

Examples

• The historian created a chronology of the Civil War battles.
• Students must learn the chronology of major world events.
• The chronology in the textbook helped me understand the sequence of discoveries.
• She arranged the photographs in chronological order to show the building’s construction.
• The detective established a chronology of the suspect’s movements.
• Biblical chronology has been debated by scholars for centuries.