Suttas organized by date?

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Does anyone know of a guide or resource organizing the suttas by date?

Ven. Dhammanando has described essential guidelines for the research of this question:

Suttas in a chronological order?

If we confine ourselves to the self-referential content of the suttas themselves, then I believe it is only a very tiny number of them whose approximate time of delivery can be ascertained (assuming of course that one accepts the self-referential content as trustworthy). These would comprise a handful delivered in the earliest period of the Buddha’s teaching career and whose order can be found in the Vinaya’s Mahāvagga; a couple relating to the time of the Parinibbāna; and a few given by discip…

Suttas in a chronological order?

Below are some of the key terms. You might find more if you check out the entry for Gotama Buddha in the Dictionary of Proper Names and chase up the references. Three divisions of the Buddha’s post-awakening life paṭhamabodhi majjhimabodhi pacchimabodhi (Several Vinaya ṭīkās report a difference of opinion over how the years of these periods are to be counted. One opinion was that they were three periods of fifteen years each. Another was that the paṭhamabodhi was twenty years, the pacchima…