Chronicle

A chronicle is a genre of historical account in which events are arranged in chronological order, functioning as a predecessor of the modern timeline rather than an analytical history; equal weight is given to historically important and merely local events, recorded from the perspective of the chronicler rather than through selective interpretation. Chronicles present accounts in prose or verse of local or distant events over a considerable period, sometimes spanning the lifetime of the original chronicler and those of several subsequent continuators; when a chronicle deals with events strictly year by year it is often instead called an annal, the narrower related genre from which the chronicle is distinguished by its broader, less rigidly dated scope.