I got quite upset when three years of browser history were wiped out by an update. A Firefox update, of all things! I still can't find the setting to restore the old behaviour.
I just checked (in Firefox) my history panel, sorted by date...
Today, Yesterday, Last 7 days, This Month, a named month for the prior 5, and Older than 6 months.
And some of the randomly sampled stuff in that giant last category is quite old.