history
be history
1 be perceived as no longer relevant to the present.
2 used to indicate elimination, departure, dismissal, or death. informal
❷ 2013Daily Telegraph The union bosses, it seemed, had delivered just what they wanted: New Labour was history. But they were misinformed. Ed Miliband is, it turns out, more Catholic than the Pope.
make history do something that is remembered in or influences the course of history.
the rest is history used to indicate that the events succeeding those already related are so well known that they need not be recounted again.
rewrite history: seerewrite.