1. Chronology
History is like a very long story made up of different chapters.
To understand a story you must know in what order things happened.
Try to work out the story of ‘The Body in a Room’.
You can make up very different stories by changing the order in which things happened.
You could make the story a murder, a suicide or just somebody discovering a body.
The order in which things happened is very important to the study of History.

2. Chronology
Chronology is the study of exactly when things happened. When historians put events in chronological order they put them in the order that they happened.
Like detectives, by placing important events in chronological order we can discover many interesting things about why events happened. That is when History starts to get really interesting.

3. Richard the Lionheart, 1189-1199
William the Conquerer,

4. Henry IV,
Henry Tudor (VII)

5. Henry VIII,
Elizabeth I,

6. Charles I,
William and Mary, (1694)

7. George III,
Queen Victoria,

8. George V,
Elizabeth II , 1952-now

9. There is a dead body on the floor in a room.
Someone screamed.
Someone went into a room.
Someone left a room.