Under History, check if there are any saved tabs that need to be cleared. Open Chrome and click the more options button at the top right. If you’d like to clear Recent Tab history in Chrome, there’s no obvious way to do it.
If it was shut down properly, tapping Ctrl+Shift+T will reopen your recent tabs. When you next launch it, you will see an option to restore tabs if Chrome did not shut down properly. When you close Chrome, whether you do it normally, it crashes, you force close it, or your system restarts, the browser keeps a list of all the tabs you had open.