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{{Short description|Science of arranging events in order of occurrence}} | {{Short description|Science of arranging events in order of occurrence}} | ||
{{Extract-photo|[[File:(Agen) Portrait de Joseph Juste Scaliger - Musée du Louvre.jpg|thumb|right|Joseph Scaliger's ''De emendatione temporum'' (1583) began the modern science of chronology]]}} | {{Extract-photo|[[File:(Agen) Portrait de Joseph Juste Scaliger - Musée du Louvre.jpg|thumb|right|Joseph Scaliger's ''De emendatione temporum'' (1583) began the modern science of chronology]]}} |
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Chronology (from Latin chronologia, from Ancient Greek χρόνος, chrónos, 'time'; and -λογία, -logia) is the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time. Consider, for example, the use of a timeline or sequence of events. It is also "the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events".
Chronology is a part of periodization. It is also a part of the discipline of history including earth history, the earth sciences, and study of the geologic time scale.