This paper analyzes the conceptions of time and history writing in two chroniclers, Pedro Mártir de Anglería and Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, both narrators of the events of 1492 using the form of "Decades". The first of them wrote in the heat of the events, at the turn of the 15th to the 16th century, and the second in the early 17th century. In order to achieve these goals, we seek a contextualization of their productions, and persecute how their conceptions of history and narrative were linked to political and providential precepts. In addition, we have conducted a discussion on the concept of chronicle and how this form of historiography recorded the Spanish history as an Atlantic phenomenon through the 16th century, showing how Anglería and Herrera formulas were related to tradition and modernity.
chronicle; Anglería; Herrera