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Chronology (from Latin chronologia, from Ancient Greek χρόνος, chrónos, ' time '; and -λογία, -logia) [2] is the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time. Consider, for example, the use of a timeline or sequence of events .
Joseph Priestley's A New Chart of History, 1765 The bronze timeline "Fifteen meters of History" with background information board, Örebro, Sweden. A timeline is a list of events displayed in chronological order. [1] It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates paralleling it, and usually contemporaneous events.
Chronology – science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time, such as in historical timelines. Past – totality of events which occurred before a given point in time. The past is contrasted with and defined by the present and the future.
Ancient history – Aggregate of past events from the beginning of recorded human history and extending as far as the Early Middle Ages or the Postclassical Era. The span of recorded history is roughly five thousand years, beginning with the earliest linguistic records in the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Egypt .
The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe, scaling its current age of 13.8 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science.
Chronology is the science of locating events in time. Methods of determining chronology are used in most disciplines of science, especially astronomy , geology , history , paleontology and archaeology .
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
Chronological dating, or simply dating, is the process of attributing to an object or event a date in the past, allowing such object or event to be located in a previously established chronology. This usually requires what is commonly known as a "dating method".