What is the meaning of history?

noun

• The aggregate of past events.
  • usage: "a critical time in the school's history"
• A record or narrative description of past events.
  • usage: "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"
  • synonyms: account, chronicle, story
• The discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings.
  • usage: "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"
• The continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future.
  • usage: "all of human history"
• All that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge.
  • usage: "the dawn of recorded history"; "from the beginning of history"