chronology

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
chronology /krəˈnɒlədʒi/

▶noun (pl. chronologies)

• 1 the study of records to establish the dates of past events.

• 2 the arrangement of events or dates in the order of their occurrence.

  ■ a list of events or dates in chronological order.

– derivatives
chronologist noun.

– origin C16: from mod. L. chronologia, from Gk khronos ‘time’ + -logia (see -logy).