chronologically
adv.in the order of time, from the earliest to the latest. You use this when you want to tell a story or list things in the sequence they happened.
adv.in the order of time or sequence of events. Often used to describe the arrangement of historical data or the narrative structure of a text.
“The book tells the story of the city chronologically.”
“The historian arranged the documents chronologically to show how the conflict developed over several decades.”
“While the film is structured chronologically, the novel employs a non-linear narrative to highlight the protagonist's psychological state across different periods of her life.”
“To read A Long Winter afterwards, meeting the past that crouches in the shadows of the later story, would be as absorbing as to read chronologically.”
From chronological + -ly.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.