Pagination by year? or query by year?

Hello

I have posts from long time ago, I hope that when people search on my blog or go to the category page they can click a link to show posts from year 2010, 2011 and so on … instead of having to go back 8 pages or so

May I know how to do that?

is there a function to get an array of the years from the query results?

I dont want to use a plugin

thank you