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Chronology is understood to be the science or system that allows to organize in an orderly and successive way the historical events according to these have been happening. The chronology (from the Greek chronos 'time' and logos 'study') is nothing more than the study of time as it passes and that is why chronology becomes special importance for other sciences, such as history, which resort to the ordering of data and dates in a permanent.

So, the chronology is an assistant to history, forming part of it to precisely identify the temporal order in which historical events occurred.

More accessible understanding of historical events and having a record of the order in which they take place

As a system of ordering, it is evident that chronology is a device created by the human being to obtain a understanding more accessible of historical events and to maintain a record of the order in which they take place. If it is taken into account that the dates and the forms of dating used by the human being are also creations artificial information from him, then the chronology will be nothing more than a repetition of the information in an orderly and organized.

Use number and dating systems

The chronology is based on the idea that all the facts are related to each other and therefore it is of vital importance to order them to understand them better. For this, the chronology resorts to various numerical and dating systems that seek to place the oldest facts first and the most recent last, in order to follow a linearity constructive. For the chronology it is therefore of vital importance to have a dating system such as the timelines in which the events are placed in an orderly and hierarchical manner according to the moment in which they have occurred; In the first place, the events that occurred first in time will appear and those that occur behind them.

Recurrence to timelines

The timeline can show the evolution time of different cultures at the same time, for which they resort to shared time lines. The divisions within a timeline can be greater or lesser, being normal that the periods prior to the birth of Christ (year 0) are larger than the later ones as there is more data and information about these last.
Those events that occurred before the birth of Jesus Christ are indicated as follows A.C. (Before Christ), while those that happened later as D.C. (After Christ).

Those non-historical events that are told in chronological order

Also the concept of chronology is widely used in our language to designate those non-historical events that are counted following a chronological order; events, data that is ordered from the date on which they occurred. And we must emphasize that many other areas of knowledge make use of chronology to order the events that occur in them, that is, their job It is not just about history.

Many times, there are issues of public interest whose focus remains over time, which demand precisely from the realization of a chronology so that the public can understand them, and why not also remember them if they came out of the scene for some time.

Let's think about those cases that have a tremendous impact on the public opinion and that are therefore followed minute by minute by the media communication massive, and that suddenly, after leaving the scene for a while because they lose interest or because there is no news in the case, something happens that refloats them and places them back in the center of the attention. The various means of remembering the events usually present chronicles that make a chronology of the events that occurred.

On the other hand, the end of the year, decade, millennium or a cycle usually motivate the realization of chronologies about that year, decade, millennium or cycle, selecting the most relevant events that occurred and presenting them in chronological order, that is, the one that happened in June will be placed before the one that happened in September.