Chronicles, Annals and Histories

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.

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.

A universal history is a work aiming at the presentation of a history of all of humankind as a whole.

Bakhar is a form of historical narrative written in Marathi prose.

Tarikh (Arabic: تاريخ, romanized: tārīkh) is an Arabic word meaning "date, chronology, era", whence by extension "annals, history, historiography".

Javanese literature has a very large historical component.