Works that set out events over time, including annals, chronicles, the universal history, the Marathi bakhar, the Arabic and Persian tarikh and the historical texts of Java. A genre belongs here when its cited article describes it as a historical account, record or narrative. The group sits within the Historical and Chronicle Writing subcategory of the genre roster and gathers the genres of this kind that the atlas already records, so that a reader can browse related genres together and compare how each one is defined.
Chronicles, Annals and Histories
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Annals (Wikipedia)
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Annals (Latin: annāles, from annus, "year") are a concise historical record in which events are arranged chronologically, year by year, although the term is also used loosely for any historical record.
Chronicle (Wikipedia)
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A chronicle (Latin: chronica, from Greek χρονικά chroniká, from χρόνος, chrónos, "time") is a historical account of events arranged in chronological order, as in a timeline.
Universal history (genre) - Wikipedia
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A universal history is a work aiming at the presentation of a history of all of humankind as a whole.
Bakhar - Wikipedia
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Bakhar is a form of historical narrative written in Marathi prose.
Tarikh (Wikipedia)
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Tarikh (Arabic: تاريخ, romanized: tārīkh) is an Arabic word meaning "date, chronology, era", whence by extension "annals, history, historiography".
Javanese historical texts (Wikipedia)
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Javanese literature has a very large historical component.
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