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  2. Chronology - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Scaliger's De emendatione temporum (1583) began the modern science of chronology [1]. 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.

  3. List of decades, centuries, and millennia - Wikipedia

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    List of years; Timelines of world history; List of timelines; Chronology; See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years.; See history, history by period, and periodization for different organizations of historical events.

  4. Anachronism - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek Orpheus with a violin (invented in the 16th century) rather than a lyre.A 17th-century painting by Cesare Gennari. An anachronism (from the Greek ἀνά ana, 'against' and χρόνος khronos, 'time') is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of people, events, objects, language terms and customs from different time periods.

  5. History of calendars - Wikipedia

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    For chronological purposes, the flaw of the Anno Domini system was that dates have to be reckoned backwards or forwards according as they are BC or AD. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, "in an ideally perfect system all events would be reckoned in one sequence. The difficulty was to find a starting point whence to reckon, for the ...

  6. Typology (archaeology) - Wikipedia

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    Artifacts organized into this kind of typology are sorted by the use they serve rather than the looks they have or the chronological sequence they possess. In some cases, the artifacts may not be removed because of the functional purpose they exhibit, and the restoration of the pieces can be more difficult than other types of objects.

  7. Chronometry - Wikipedia

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    Chronos, used in relation to time when in definite periods, and linked to dates in time, chronological accuracy, and sometimes in rare cases, refers to a delay. [7] The length of the time it refers ranges from seconds to seasons of the year to lifetimes, it can also concern periods of time wherein some specific event takes place, or persists ...

  8. Category:Chronology - Wikipedia

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    Lists of works of science fiction, arranged in chronological order (3 P) T. Wikipedia timelines (9 C, 4 P) W. Weeks (4 C, 12 P) Y. Years (38 C, 3 P) Pages in category ...

  9. Plot (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    The fabula (story) is what happened in chronological order. In contrast, the syuzhet (plot) means a unique sequence of discourse that was sorted out by the (implied) author. That is, the syuzhet can consist of picking up the fabula events in non-chronological order; for example, fabula is a 1, a 2, a 3, a 4, a 5, ..., a n , syuzhet is a 5, a 1 ...