Here you go straight from the Dictionary:
chron·i·cle (kr?n'?-k?l)
n.
An extended account in prose or verse of historical events, sometimes including legendary material, presented in chronological order and without authorial interpretation or comment.
A detailed narrative record or report.
Chronicles (used with a sing. verb) Abbr. Chr. or Chron. or Ch See Table at Bible.
tr.v. chron·i·cled, chron·i·cling, chron·i·cles
To record in or in the form of a historical record.
[Middle English cronicle, from Anglo-Norman, alteration of Old French cronique, from Latin chronica, from Greek khronika (biblia), chronological (books), annals, neuter pl. of khronikos, of time; see chronic.]
