Grouping photos within events

I want to group my photos within Events. So for example I want to create an Events sorted by year of activity and then within that Event group the photos by "sub Event" like "Holiday to Somewhere". So when I search I can find all photos from 2015 in one Event and then look for activities during the year.
I do not want to combine currently seperate Events by date into one as this is too large to work with.
I have looked at creating an Album named by year but again from what I can see this then ungroups photos and they appear in the Album as individual photos.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Rusty

I want to group my photos within Events. So for example I want to create an Events sorted by year of activity and then within that Event group the photos by "sub Event" like "Holiday to Somewhere". So when I search I can find all photos from 2015 in one Event and then look for activities during the year
Not possible.
That's exactly what Albums are for:
Create a folder called 2015
Create Albums from the various happenings during 2015, drag them to the folder.
Click on the folder: see all the images from 2015, click on the albums to see only the specific events.
I have looked at creating an Album named by year but again from what I can see this then ungroups photos and they appear in the Album as individual photos.
Sorry but I don't understand what you mean by that.

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How do I rearrange photos within an event?
You can not - events are time based and you can not move tehphotos - you could change the times of the photos to match the order you want but I suggest that you leave the events the way they are and use albums for the specific order organization you want
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