Worst kind of history teaching. My mother said that was how they taught history in school when she was young, and I'm sure there are backward-ass school curriculums today still doing that. That probably would've killed my youthful enthusiasm for history. Luckily, my state's public schools gave a very modern, engaging form of history.
It's honestly contrary to the core idea of History as a discipline - a chronicle or a timeline isn't History. History is about making sense of the past.