Calendar events older than a month have disappeared!

I use the calendar on my iPhone and iPad, also synced with my husbands phone) for all our business appointments. In searching for a past appointment the other day, I suddenly discovered that any appointment or event created more than 4 weeks ago has disappeared, from all devices! This is a major headache for us as we rely on using previous events to help book future appointments etc!
Is this normal? Are events only stored for a period of time? I had assumed they would stay until someone deleted them!
Really grateful for any help as may have to stop using this feature if it doesn't store events!
Thanks

The events should come back. Try refreshing the calendar. Launch the calendar app and tap the calendar button at the bottom. Pull down on the window that opens to refresh the events.

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