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chronological succession

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Noun1.chronological succession - a following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients"
chronological sequence, succession, successiveness, sequence
temporal arrangement, temporal order - arrangement of events in time
pelting, rain - anything happening rapidly or in quick successive; "a rain of bullets"; "a pelting of insults"
rotation - a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.); "crop rotation makes a balanced demand on the fertility of the soil"; "the manager had only four starting pitchers in his rotation"
row - a continuous chronological succession without an interruption; "they won the championship three years in a row"
run - an unbroken chronological sequence; "the play had a long run on Broadway"; "the team enjoyed a brief run of victories"


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Succeeding chapters, arranged in chronological succession, examine the voyages of Prince Henry the Navigator, Bartholomew Diaz, Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Pedro Alvares Cabral, John Cabot, Amerigo Vespucci, Juan Ponce de Leon, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, and Ferdinand Magellan.
Around the World in a Hundred Years: From Henry the Navigator to ... by Burns, Mary M. / The Horn Book Magazine
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