chronology
Order of events
Chronology is the arrangement of events in the order they occurred.
A chronology of the war lists battles and treaties by date.
The word also refers to the study of establishing such sequences, particularly in history and geology.
The detective worked out the chronology of the crime.
Something is chronological when ordered by time: List your jobs in chronological order.
Decaying carbon isotope
- dendrochronologyDating via growth rings
- stratigraphyStudy of rock layers
- potassium-argonIsotopic age-determination technique
- thermoluminescenceLight from heated irradiated material
uranium-lead · carbon-14 · luminescence · seriation · geochronology · radiometric · isotopic
Distinct historical period
- epochDistinct historical period
- centuryHundred-year span
- decadeTen-year span
- millenniumSpan of thousand years
age · period · eon · year · past · present · future · timespan
Year-by-year historical account
- logSectioned tree trunk
- timelineOrdered display of events
- registerRecord officially; vocal range
- archiveStored historical records
documentation · journal · catalog · ledger · minutes · transcript · inventory · database
Great age, ancient era
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- civilizationsComplex organized human societies
- dynastiesSuccessive rulers from one family
- empiresExtensive ruled territories
eras · epochs · periods · ages · millennia · annals · medieval · renaissance
Methodical arrangement or request
- successionFollowing in order
- progressionSequential forward movement
- seriesOrdered set of related items
- timelineOrdered display of events
continuum · arrangement · chain · flow · stages · phases · steps · pattern
Study of history-writing
- periodizationDivision into distinct periods
- genealogyStudy of family descent
- paleographyStudy of ancient handwriting
- archaeologyStudy of physical remnants
timekeeping · annalist · chronicler · diachronic · dating · temporality
Coming into the world
- agingGrowing older over time
- maturityFull growth achieved
- developmentProgress toward maturity
- lifecycleStages from beginning to end
generation · lifetime · senescence · milestones · anniversary · coming-of-age · adolescence · adulthood
radiocarbon
Decaying carbon isotope
- dendrochronologyDating via growth rings
- stratigraphyStudy of rock layers
- potassium-argonIsotopic age-determination technique
thermoluminescence · uranium-lead · carbon-14 · luminescence · seriation · geochronology · radiometric · isotopic
era
Distinct historical period
millennium · age · period · eon · year · past · present · future · timespan · duration
annals
Year-by-year historical account
archive · documentation · journal · catalog · ledger · minutes · transcript · inventory · database · index
antiquity
Great age, ancient era
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- civilizationsComplex organized human societies
- dynastiesSuccessive rulers from one family
empires · eras · epochs · periods · ages · millennia · annals · medieval · renaissance · modern
order
Methodical arrangement or request
- successionFollowing in order
- progressionSequential forward movement
- seriesOrdered set of related items
timeline · continuum · arrangement · chain · flow · stages · phases · steps · pattern · cycle
historiography
Study of history-writing
- periodizationDivision into distinct periods
- genealogyStudy of family descent
- paleographyStudy of ancient handwriting
archaeology · timekeeping · annalist · chronicler · diachronic · dating · temporality
birth
Coming into the world
- agingGrowing older over time
- maturityFull growth achieved
- developmentProgress toward maturity
lifecycle · generation · lifetime · senescence · milestones · anniversary · coming-of-age · adolescence · adulthood
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- art researchprovenance, attribution, authentication, iconography, art criticism
- historiographyhistoriography, historiographer, secondary sources, historical interpretation, historical analysis
- storytellingstorytelling, story, tale, narrative, narrator
- timesecond, minute, hour, day, seconds
- time wordsminute, hour, day, now, soon
chronologydisorder
Absence of organization
disorganization · randomness · random order · anachronism · disarray
- chronological orderArrangement by time of occurrence
- chronological ageYears since birth
- chronological sequenceOrder based on time
- reverse chronologyEvents ordered latest-first
chronological, chronologically, chronologies, chronologist, chronologic, chronologize