Editing Fasti (section)

{{short description|Roman annals listing the names of magistrates and important events}}
{{About||the poem by Ovid|Fasti (poem)|the inscribed versions of the calendar|Roman calendar}}

In [[ancient Rome]], the '''''fasti''''' ([[Latin]] plural) were [[chronology|chronological]] or [[calendar]]-based lists, or other [[wikt:diachronic|diachronic]] records or plans of official and religiously sanctioned events. After [[Decline of the Roman Empire|Rome's decline]], the word ''fasti'' continued to be used for similar records in [[Latin West|Christian Europe]] and later [[Western culture]].

Public business, including the official business of the [[Roman State|Roman state]], had to be transacted on ''[[Glossary of ancient Roman religion#fas|dies fasti]]'', "allowed days". The ''fasti'' were the records of this business. In addition to the word's general sense, there were ''fasti'' that recorded specific kinds of events, such as the ''fasti triumphales'', lists of [[Roman triumph|triumphs]] celebrated by Roman generals. The divisions of time used in the ''fasti'' were based on the [[Roman calendar]].

The yearly records of the ''fasti'' encouraged the writing of history in the form of chronological [[annalists|''annales'']], "annals", which in turn influenced the development of [[Roman historiography]].