annals

IPA: ˈænʌɫz

noun

  • A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.
  • Historical records; chronicles; history.
  • A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.
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Examples of "annals" in Sentences

  • The Pleiades are mentioned in Chinese annals in 2357 B.C.
  • The term annals, though often confused with chronicles, nevertheless indicates a different class.
  • Almost all come from monastic or mendicant milieux, and are passages in annals or chronicles of the writer's abbey.
  • Harun al-Rashid received emissaries from the Emperor Charlemagne (See 800), a fact noted in Latin annals but not in Arabic ones.
  • Not entirely unremembered in Alaskan annals is the summer stampede of 1898 from Fort Yukon to the bench diggings of Tarwater Hill.
  • By grace of character she was a model constitutional sovereign, and her benign reign, the longest in English annals, contributed more than the policy of any of her ministers to make the monarchy popular and permanent.
  • Wellington at once resumed the offensive; Ciudad Rodrigo fell before him on January twelfth, 1812, and on April eighth, after one of the bravest and bloodiest assaults recorded in English annals, Badajoz also was carried.
  • They are first mentioned in Japanese annals in A.D. 549, when a number of them arrived by boat on the north of Sado Island and settled there, living on fish caught during spring and summer and salted or dried for winter use.
  • Lord Bolingbroke, the Mashams, Marlboroughs, Swift, Addison, Pope, and the host of brilliant men which makes the reign of one of the feeblest women who ever sat on a throne a period of almost pre-eminent interest in English annals to men of cultivated mind subject to the influence of association.

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