(noun.) the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events.

(noun.) a record of events in the order of their occurrence.

(noun.) an arrangement of events in time.

整理:尼古拉斯

• His very name carried an impressiveness hardly to be measured without a precise chronology of scholarship. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He reckoned all dates from the birth of Christ, and through his works the use of Christian chronology became common in Europe. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The calcareous remains of marine animals in the solid body of the earth bear witness of a period to which no other species of chronology is able to remount. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

校对:罗杰