Definition of annals Annals
/æˈnʌlz/ - [anulz] - an•nals
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| annals - a chronological account of events in successive years | ||
| chronological record | ||
| chronicle, history, story, account the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view" | ||
| annals - reports of the work of a society or learned body etc | ||
| journal the part of the axle contained by a bearing | ||
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Wiktionary 
- annals (Noun)
Plural of annal. - annals (Noun)
A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened. - annals (Noun)
Historical records; chronicles; history. - annals (Noun)
A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc. ; as Annals of Science.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- annals (n. pl.)
A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened. - annals (n. pl.)
Historical records; chronicles; history. - annals (n. pl.)
The record of a single event or item. - annals (n. pl.)
A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.; as "Annals of Science."
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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annals
Yearly historical accounts of events.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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annals
an′alz, n.pl. records of events under the years in which they happened: any historical work that follows the order of time in its narrations, separating them off into single years, as the Annals of Tacitus: historical records generally: year-books.—v.t. Ann′alise, to write annals: to record.—n. Ann′alist, a writer of annals. [L. annales—annus, a year.]
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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annals
A species of military history, wherein events are related in the chronological order they happened. They differ from a perfect history, in being only a mere relation of what passes every year, as a journal is of what passes every day.
Wikipedia 
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Annals (Latin "Annales", from "annus", a year) are a short form of historical writing which record events chronologically, year by year.
Ancient Rome.
Cicero (in "De Oratore", ii. 12. 52) tells that from the earliest period down to the pontificate of "Publius Mucius Scaevola" (c. 131 BC), it was usual for the pontifex maximus to record on a white tablet ("album"), which was exhibited in an open place at his house, so that the people might read it. On this tablet were written down (according to Cicero) the name of the consuls and other magistrates, and then the important events of the year.
In Cicero's time these records were called "Annales Maximi". The practice of writing annals was carried on by several unofficial writers. Cicero speaks of Cato, Pictor and Piso.
Medieval.
In the Middle Ages in the Western Church there were written tables to show that date of Easter for a certain number of years or even centuries. These "Paschal tables" were thin books in which each annual date was separated from the next by a more or less considerable blank space. In these spaces some monks wrote down the important events of the year. The writing of these Annals was begun at the end of the 7th century and among the Irish – see the Annals of the Four Masters, the Annals of Ulster, the Annals of Innisfallen and the Annales Cambriae or Annals of Wales, one of the earliest sources for King Arthur. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is also in annalistic, year-by-year form.
In the 9th century, during the
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