Historical records or accounts of events written in the order they happened, often covering a long period of time.
From Old French 'chronicle,' from Latin 'chronica' (books of time), from Greek 'chronikos' (of time, from 'chronos'). Originally referred to annals or year-by-year records.
The oldest chronicles were literally written year-by-year by monks in monasteries—'anno' (year) was how they dated everything—and monks were basically the historians and librarians of the medieval world, which is why so much we know comes from their handwritten records!
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