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Joseph Scaliger's De emendatione temporum (1583) began the modern science of chronology [1]. Chronology (from Latin chronologia, from Ancient Greek χρόνος, chrónos, ' time '; and -λογία, -logia) [2] is the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time.
Early modern period – The chronological limits of this period are open to debate. It emerges from the Late Middle Ages (c. 1500), demarcated by historians as beginning with the fall of Constantinople in 1453, in forms such as the Italian Renaissance in the West, the Ming dynasty in the East, and the rise of the Aztecs in the New World.
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List of years; Timelines of world history; List of timelines; Chronology; See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years.; See history, history by period, and periodization for different organizations of historical events.
Chronological dating, or simply dating, is the process of attributing to an object or event a date in the past, allowing such object or event to be located in a previously established chronology. This usually requires what is commonly known as a "dating method".
Since the 1980s, time geography has been used by researchers in the social sciences, [18] the biological sciences, [19] and in interdisciplinary fields. In 1993, British geographer Gillian Rose noted that "time-geography shares the feminist interest in the quotidian paths traced by people, and again like feminism, links such paths, by thinking ...
Year Date Event 612: Theudebert II, the king of Austrasia, was assassinated.His realm went to his brother Theuderic II, king of Burgundy.: 613: Theuderic II died. His bastard son Sigebert II briefly inherited his kingdom.
A timeline is a list of events displayed in chronological order. [1] It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates paralleling it, and usually contemporaneous events. Timelines can use any suitable scale representing time, suiting the subject and data; many use a linear scale, in which a unit of distance is equal to a ...