history vs past tense

history

noun
  • A record or narrative description of past events. 

  • A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser. 

  • The aggregate of past events. 

  • Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant. 

  • The portion of the past that is known and recorded by this field of study, as opposed to all earlier and unknown times that preceded it (prehistory). 

  • A set of events involving an entity. 

  • Shared experience or interaction. 

  • The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events. 

  • A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family. 

past tense

noun
  • A grammatical form (often a verb form) that refers to an event, transaction, occurrence, or object that happened (or had happened), or existed, at some time before now (the applicable reference time). 

  • A grammatical form (often a verb form) that is used in a conditional expression to refer to an event, transaction, occurrence, or object that is hypothetical and often counterfactual. 

How often have the words history and past tense occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )