What is history?

What is history?
Does history have to be recorded to consider as history? Or could it be anything that happened in the past, regardless if it is recorded or not?
History should only be the one that was recorded, and verified either by language or images that seek to explain the ways in which people have changed over time. Those that were not verified or recorded are considered as legends and novels instead of history, because those works or fairy tales cannot to be proven to be true or it might contained too many unproven details or personal feelings attached to it. Moreover, most of the…