There are three kinds of book that have the label "Chronology":
The first we can dismiss right away, they are "chronologies" only in the title sense. What they really are are discourses on chronology, usually biblical but sometimes archaeological. They are entirely useless for writing Flashback.
The second you know about: they are real books where the data is provided in chronological order by year or some other date (like by day).
The third are books that are called chronologies but are actually encyclopedias of facts, arranged alphabetically with the date data supplied with the alphabetical information. British railway chronologies are almost always done this way. You have to scan the entire list looking for a year. I should just not buy them, right, but usually you're buying something from abroad it would be cheaper to keep than return and anyway, I'm stubborn.
The worst one is the Chronology of Florida Post Offices. 91 pages of two columns alphabetically listing post offices.
I mean, who cares?
But I got a good question out of it for once.
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