How to say "chronology" in Japanese

• 編年へんねん
  nounCovers chronology as the arranging or compiling of events and records in date order. It is less common, and you will mostly come across it in historical writing.
• クロノロジー
  nounA loanword that simply transliterates 'chronology', so it can cover whatever the English word means, but it is less common and seldom the word you want; a native expression usually serves better.
• 年代記ねんだいき
  nounCovers 'chronology' as a written record of events arranged year by year — a chronicle or annals. Use it when 'chronology' means such a text, not the mere order of events.
• 時系列じけいれつ
  nounCovers 'chronology' as chronological order — the order in which events occurred. This is the word for that sense, as in discussing timelines or the sequence of a story's events.

For 'chronology' as the order of events use 時系列, as a year-by-year written record use 年代記, while 編年 concerns arranging events in date order and 「クロノロジー」 is a loanword you will rarely need.

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• 編年へんねんchronology
• クロノロジーchronology
• 年代記ねんだいきannals
• 時系列じけいれつchronological order