Other forms: chronicles
A chronicle is a record of events written down year by year. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, chronicle the war, a family chronicle.
The year-by-year shape is the point and the limitation: a chronicle records what happened in order and does not explain why, which is what separates it from history proper. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was kept for over two centuries.
1nounchronicleA record of events written down year by year.
“Monks kept a chronicle of the town, noting floods, fires and the deaths of kings.”
chronicle is a record.
Greek chronika means annals, from chronos, time. Chronology and chronic come from the same time.
Ancient Greek
χρονικός — of or concerning time
Latin
chronica
Old French
cronike
Anglo-Norman
cronicle
Middle English
cronicle
English, today
chronicle
Built from
From Middle English cronicle, cronycle, from Anglo-Norman cronicle, from Old French cronike, from Latin chronica, from Ancient Greek χρονικός (“of or concerning time”), from χρόνος (“time”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA