Does "chronological order" mean the most recent item comes first?

I want to say that a list is in chronological order. Does this implies that the most recent event comes first? Or do I have to mention that explicitly?

This the list of papers in chronological order:
1) . 2019
2) . 2018
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In technical and common parlance, the phrase "chronological order" indicates that the items are in order of occurrence or creation, oldest first (being the first in the chronology).

So it's [ 1997, 1998, 1999 ] and not [ 1999, 1998, 1997 ] .

Ordering most recent first as in the example given in the question is called reverse chronological ordering or inverse chronological ordering.

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