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Chronica Majora

The Chronica Majora ("Greater Chronicle") is a Latin universal chronicle written by Matthew Paris, a monk of St Albans Abbey, covering history from the Creation to 1259.

Chronicle

Chronicle: a written record of events in chronological order, between annals and history as a genre. From Greek khronika via Latin chronica; progenitor Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 303); famous examples include the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

Chronicle of al-Azimi

The Chronicle of al-Azimi (Tarikh al-Azimi, تاريخ العظيمي) is an Arabic chronicle by the Aleppo historian al-Azimi, the only surviving contemporary account of the crusades' first fifty years.

Chronicle of Amda Seyon

The Chronicle of Amda Seyon is a Ge'ez royal narrative of Ethiopian king Amda Shǝyon I's campaigns against the Muslim states of Ifat and Adal.

Chronicle of Awana ibn al-Hakam

The Chronicle of Awana ibn al-Hakam (تأريخ عوانة بن الحكم) is a lost 8th-century Arabic chronicle of the Umayyad caliphs by Awana ibn al-Hakam, known through excerpts in al-Tabari.

Chronicle of Cosmas of Prague

The Chronicle of Cosmas of Prague, or Chronica Boemorum, is a three-book Latin chronicle by the Prague dean Cosmas, covering Bohemian history to his death in 1125.

Chronicle of Early Kings

The Chronicle of Early Kings is a Babylonian chronicle, known from two British Museum tablets, narrating kings from Sargon of Akkad to Agum III around 1500 BC.

Chronicle of Ibn Abi Tayyi

The Chronicle of Ibn Abi Tayyi (تاريخ ابن أبي طيء) is a largely lost Arabic chronicle of Zengid and Ayyubid Syria, Egypt, and the Crusades.

Chronicle of Iyoas

The Chronicle of Iyoas is the royal annal of the reign of Emperor Iyoas I of Ethiopia (1755–1769), edited and translated by Ignazio Guidi in 1910 and 1912.

Chronicle of Lebna Dengel

The Chronicle of Lebna Dengel is a brief Ge'ez royal chronicle covering Emperor Lebna Dengel of Ethiopia and Ahmad Gran's invasion of 1529 to 1543.

Chronicle of Menelik II

The Chronicle of Menelik II is the official Amharic court chronicle of Emperor Menelik II, written by his chronicler Gabra Sellasé and covering his rule from 1865 to 1913.

Chronicle of Michael the Syrian

The Chronicle of Michael the Syrian is a Syriac universal history by Michael the Great, patriarch of Antioch from 1166 to 1199, covering Creation to 1195.

Chronicle of Poland, Lithuania, Samogitia and all Ruthenia

The Chronicle of Poland, Lithuania, Samogitia and all Ruthenia (Kronika polska, litewska, żmudzka i wszystkiej Rusi) is a chronicle by Maciej Stryjkowski, printed in Königsberg in 1582.

Chronicle of Prince Osorkon

The Chronicle of Prince Osorkon, or Osorkon Chronicle, is a hieroglyphic inscription at Karnak in which Prince Osorkon narrates his suppression of a Theban rebellion.

Chronicle of Susenyos

The Chronicle of Susenyos (ዜና መዋዕል ዘሱስንዮስ) is a Ge'ez royal chronicle of Ethiopian emperor Susenyos I, covering 1597 to 1625 and his reign's Catholic conversion crisis.

Chronicle of the Antiquity of the Romano-Moldo-Wallachians

The Chronicle of the Antiquity of the Romano-Moldo-Wallachians (Hronicul vechimei a romano-moldo-vlahilor) is a history of the Romanian people by Moldavian prince Dimitrie Cantemir, composed in 1719–1722.

Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja

The Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja (Љетопис попа Дукљанина), also called the Bar Genealogy, is a disputed 12th-century Latin chronicle of the South Slavs.

Chronicle of Yohannes IV

The Chronicle of Yohannes IV is an Ethiopian royal chronicle, written principally in Ge'ez, recording the reign of Emperor Yohannes IV of Ethiopia from 1872 to 1889.

Chronicle of Zara Yaqob

The Chronicle of Zara Yaqob is an Ethiopian royal chronicle covering the reign of Emperor Zara Yaqob (1434 to 1468), written by two contemporary authors and inaugurating indigenous Ethiopian historiography.

Chronicle P

Chronicle P, also known as ABC 22 or the Chronicle of the Kassite Kings, is a Babylonian chronicle narrating Assyrian, Babylonian, and Elamite conflicts of the 14th to 12th centuries BCE.

Chronicon Pictum

The Chronicon Pictum (Képes Krónika), also called the Illuminated Chronicle, is an illustrated Latin chronicle of Hungary begun in 1358 under King Louis I, covering Hungarian history from the Huns to 1330.

Chrono24

Chrono24 is a German online marketplace for luxury watches, based in Karlsruhe, listing watches from about 3,000 professional dealers since 2003 and raising over €100 million in 2021.

Chronographia of Michael Psellos

The Chronographia (Χρονογραφία) is a first-person Greek history by the Byzantine monk and courtier Michael Psellos, an eyewitness account of emperors and court politics from 976 to 1077.

Chronology

Chronology: the science of ordering events in time and dating them by relative sequence or calendar years. Covers regnal dating, eras, calendars, chronicles, and radiometric methods.

Chronology of Jesus

The chronology of Jesus is the attempt to date his life's events, placing his birth around 7–5 BC and his crucifixion in AD 30 or 33.

Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies

Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies: Cheka (1917), GPU (1922), OGPU (1923), NKVD/GUGB (1934), NKGB/MGB (1943/1946), KGB (1954) to 1991, with dates, reorganizations, and FSB/SVR successors.

Chronos (χρόνος)

Chronos (Χρόνος) is the Greek personification of time, distinct from the Titan Cronus though long conflated with him. A primordial serpentine god in Orphic cosmogony, he coils the world egg with Ananke; the merger produced Father Time with his scythe.

Chronostasis

Chronostasis, the stopped-clock illusion, is a temporal illusion in which the first stimulus seen after a saccade appears longer; also occurs in auditory, tactile, and oddball forms without voluntary action.

Chrysanthemum Throne

The Chrysanthemum Throne is the throne of the Emperor of Japan and a metonym for the Japanese monarchy, named for the chrysanthemum Imperial Seal; a male-line dynasty whose succession law was revised in 2026.

Chrysanthos

Chrysanthos (Χρύσανθος) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1824 to 1826, between Anthimos III and Agathangelos, and earlier served as Metropolitan of Caesarea and of Serres.