Definition of "annals"

So ended this great siege, the most memorable in the annals of the British isles. It had lasted a hundred and five days

1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

the annals of our religion

a. 1729, John Rogers, A Sufficiency with Regard to Mens Stations in Life adjusted and recommended

the short and simple annals of the poor

1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R[ichard] Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], published 1753

It was one of the most critical periods in our annals.

1780, Edmund Burke, Speech at the Guildhall, in Bristol