The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chronology \Chro*nol"o*gy\, n.; pl. Chronologies. [Gr. ?; ? time + ? discourse: cf. F. chronologie.] The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates.
If history without chronology is dark and confused,
chronology without history is dry and insipid.
--A.
Holmes.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of chronology English)
Usage examples of "chronologies".
Up close in this light, indifferent to human chronologies and subject only to the slow erosive forces of geological time, it reared above me like a frowning, terrifying crag.
All these chronologies nevertheless agree on a very ancient date for the First Time of Osiris: the golden age when the gods were believed to have ruled in Egypt.
Different cities, perhaps in their vanity, or perhaps simply in accord with their own traditions, often have their own chronologies, based on Administrator Lists, and such.
Perhaps that is because the reconciliation and coordination of chronologies, like the diction and convolutions of the law, are regarded as scribal prerogatives.
Let the investigators work up chronologies, trace routes, check the passenger manifests.
The monks were engaged in chronicling the inroads of the pagans, or writing chronologies of the Roman Empire.