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thumb|222px|Joseph Scaliger's De emendatione temporum (1583) began the modern science of chronology

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Chronology is the science of determining the correct order and dates of historical events. It matters because it allows us to understand how events relate to and influence one another across time.

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18 sections
Contents
  • Related fields
  • Calendar and era
  • Ab Urbe condita era
  • Astronomical era
  • Prehistory
  • Synchronism
  • See also
  • Examples
  • Christian chronology
  • General
  • Fiction writing
  • Notes
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Published in the 18th–19th centuries
  • Published in the 20th century
  • Published in the 21st century
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thumb|222px|Joseph Scaliger's De emendatione temporum (1583) began the modern science of chronology

Chronology (from Latin , from Ancient Greek , , ; and , -logia) is the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time, such as in a timeline or other sequence of events. It is also "the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “chronology” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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