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Chronology 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".
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- ↑ Probably Morigny-Champigny
- ↑ Paragraph 5 Archived 2008-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
