annals
AN-ulznounMeaning a year-by-year record of events; history
Memory hook ANN = YEAR: a book for every YEAR. The town library keeps one big book for every year since long ago, shelf after shelf. Together they are the town’s annals.
The great flood is still remembered in the town’s annals.
In context The comeback was the greatest in the annals of the school; in a hundred years of yearbooks, no team had ever rallied from so far behind.
Similar records, chronicles, history, archives
From Latin annales (libri), “yearly books,” from annus, “year.”