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Event history calendar

An event history calendar (EHC), also called the life history calendar, is a survey instrument that records retrospective life events on a grid with a timeline.

Event horizon

An event horizon is a boundary in spacetime beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape; for a black hole, escape velocity there equals light speed.

Event Horizon (film)

Event Horizon is a 1997 sci-fi horror film directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, written by Philip Eisner, starring Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill. A $60 million Paramount box-office failure that became a cult classic; its 130-minute cut is largely lost.

Event Horizon Telescope

The Event Horizon Telescope is a global network of radio telescopes linked into one Earth-sized virtual telescope, which released the first image of a black hole in April 2019.

Event Horizon: Dark Descent

Event Horizon: Dark Descent is a five-issue IDW Dark comic (2025-2026) by Christian Ward and Tristan Jones, an official prequel to the 1997 film Event Horizon, following Captain Kilpack's crew and the demon Paimon, collected in a 2026 trade paperback.

Event Horizon: Inferno

Event Horizon: Inferno is a 2026 five-issue IDW Dark comic limited series by Christian Ward and Rob Carey, a sequel to the 1997 film Event Horizon set 200 years later, following billionaire Daniel Durante's fleet to the ship's wreckage near Neptune.

Event management

Event management, also called event planning, is the application of project management to creating and delivering planned events, coordinating time, budgets, people, and suppliers; a $1.3 trillion industry in 2025.

Event reconstruction

Event reconstruction is the set of algorithms that turns raw detector signals into particle tracks, energies, and identities; at the LHC it runs in real time inside the trigger.

Event sourcing

Event sourcing is a persistence pattern in which state changes are stored as immutable events in an append-only log, and current state is derived by replaying those events.

Event study

An event study is a statistical method measuring how an event, such as an earnings announcement or regulatory change, affects an outcome, typically abnormal security returns.

Event time

Event time, in stream processing, is the timestamp of when an event occurred at its source, contrasted with ingestion time and processing time; systems like Flink, Kafka, and Beam use watermarks to handle out-of-order and late event-time data.

Event-driven architecture

Event-driven architecture (EDA) is a software architecture style in which decoupled components communicate by producing, routing, and consuming events, typically through brokers, trading tight coupling for scalability and resilience.

Event-driven process chain

The event-driven process chain (EPC, German Ereignisgesteuerte Prozesskette, EPK) is a business process modeling notation introduced in 1992 at Saarland University, representing processes as alternating events and functions.

Event-driven programming

Event-driven programming, also called event-based programming, is a programming paradigm in which execution order is determined by events like user actions, sensor outputs, or messages, using an event loop and handlers.

Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging

Event-related fMRI is an fMRI design and analysis approach that models BOLD signal changes time-locked to individual behavioral trials rather than blocks, enabling randomized presentation and trial-resolved analysis.

Event-triggered model predictive control

Event-triggered model predictive control (ET-MPC) is a variant of model predictive control that solves the optimization and exchanges information only when a triggering condition is met.

Eventbrite

Eventbrite is a global self-service ticketing and event management platform founded in San Francisco in 2006, which lets organizers sell tickets and attendees discover events.

Eventide BD980

The Eventide BD980, marketed as the BD980 Obscenity Delay, is a broadcast digital delay line that radio stations used to delete profanity from live programming.

EVENTIDE study

EVENTIDE (NCT06661044) is a University of Aberdeen observational study testing how inulin, pectin, and hemp hull fibers plus fecal microbiota transplants from men over 60 alter mouse gut bacteria and prostate tumor growth.

Eventing

Equestrian eventing, or three-day eventing, is an Olympic equestrian triathlon of dressage, cross-country, and show jumping on one horse, scored on carried-forward penalties with the lowest total winning; debut 1912, short format since 2004.

Eventing at the FEI World Equestrian Games

Eventing at the FEI World Equestrian Games is the world championship of dressage, cross-country, and show jumping, held at the Games from 1990 before moving to standalone championships.

Events of Revelation

The events of Revelation are the visions in the Book of Revelation, where the exalted Jesus shows John three series of seven judgments and a new creation.

Eventual consistency

Eventual consistency, also called eventually consistent, is a weak consistency model for replicated distributed storage, formulated by Werner Vogels in 2009 and popularized by Amazon's Dynamo key-value store.

Ever After

Ever After: A Cinderella Story is Andy Tennant's 1998 realistic retelling of Cinderella, starring Drew Barrymore as Danielle de Barbarac, Anjelica Huston, and Dougray Scott, set in Renaissance France with Leonardo da Vinci replacing the fairy godmother.

Ever After High

Ever After High: Mattel fashion-doll franchise (2013-19, also called EAH) about the children of fairy-tale characters at a boarding school, where Raven Queen's refusal to sign the Storybook of Legends splits students into Royals and Rebels; sister line to Monster High.

Éver Banega

Éver Banega (born 1988, Rosario) is an Argentine central midfielder for Newell's Old Boys; ex-Boca, Valencia, Sevilla, Inter, Al Shabab; 65 Argentina caps, three Europa Leagues.

Ever Been to Ghorman?

"Ever Been to Ghorman?" is Andor season 2 episode 4 (April 29, 2025), written by Beau Willimon, directed by Ariel Kleiman, set in 3 BBY, opening the Ghorman arc and establishing the Tarkin Massacre of 19 BBY.

Ever Carradine

Ever Carradine (born 1974) is an American actress and third-generation member of the Carradine acting family, known for The Handmaid's Tale, Marvel's Runaways, and Commander in Chief.

Ever Given

Ever Given is a 400-meter container ship owned by Japan's Shoei Kisen Kaisha and chartered to Evergreen, which blocked the Suez Canal for six days in 2021.

Ever Night (将夜)

Ever Night (将夜) is Mao Ni's 2011–2014 Qidian fantasy novel and its adaptations: a 2018 Tencent Video drama with Chen Feiyu, a recast 2020 season 2 with Dylan Wang, and a 2026 Bilibili donghua, following Ning Que and Sangsang against Haotian's eternal night.