What is History?

History is a study of how the world has evolved by events in the past. It is a record of human experiences; our lives have been formed by superior institutions, ideas, and inspired works. Without the knowledge of our past, there would be little direction in our society as we learn form the past to predict the future. The Oxford dictionary, defines history as "A continuous, usually chronological, record of important or public events" Another …

…yet there is no way for what just happened to be conveyed. Why? As we reconstruct history so that we can understand it. How do we reconstruct the whole objective history? The story would be a heavily generalized version of what really happened. How it was viewed would also be constrained heavily. We do not look the person in question from a biological point of view. There would be too much information to look into.