Without even bothering to check, this seems like it can't possibly be true. You are surely not saying that the billions of Chrome users worldwide have no browsing history from September or earlier, right?
I use the History Trends Unlimited extension to work around this (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/history-trends-unl...)
With 5 years of history the stats page is a bit slow to load but the search feature works great and it can export to CSV
Google's My Activity[1] stores everything though.