From Greek 'khronika' (things of time), through Latin and French — chronicles are historical records whose very name embeds the concept of time-ordered narrative.
Factual written accounts of historical events arranged in the order they occurred; a continuous record or narrative of past events.
From Anglo-Norman 'cronicle,' from Old French 'chronique,' from Late Latin 'chronica' (annals, historical records), from Greek 'khronika' (annals), the neuter plural of 'khronikos' (of time), derived from 'khronos' (time). The English spelling was re-Latinized with 'ch-' in the sixteenth century to reflect the Greek original more closely. The word 'khronos' in Greek denoted sequential, measurable time
Middle English spelled the word 'cronicle' without the 'h' — closer to how it actually traveled through French. Renaissance scholars reinserted the 'ch-' to signal the word's Greek pedigree. This re-Latinization created the modern spelling but added a letter that had been absent from English usage for over