History

The etymology of the word 'History' (from www.etymonline.com):

1390, "relation of incidents" (true or false),
from Old French historie,
from Latin historia "narrative, account, tale, story,"
from Greek historia "a learning or knowing by inquiry, history, record, narrative,"
from Greek historein "inquire," from histor "wise man, judge,"
from Proto-Indo-European *wid-tor-, from base *weid- "to know," lit. "to see".

Related to Greek idein "to see," and to eidenai "to know."

In Middle English, not differentiated from story; sense of "record of past
events" probably first attested 1485.

Sense of "systematic account (without reference to time) of a set of natural phenomena" (1567) is now obsolete except in natural history.

What is historic (1669) is noted or celebrated in history; what is historical (1561) deals with history.

Historian "writer of history in the higher sense," distinguished from a mere annalist or chronicler, is from 1531. The Old English word was þeod-wita.