ICal lost appointment / Time Machine retrieval

I have a recurring appt that occurs on January 1 every year. Yesterday I discovered that the occurrences prior to 2014 have disappeared. This is distressing as I have pertient info saved on those entries. All other appointments in all calendars seem to be present going years back, so it is only this one (or a select few) that have disappeared.
I have tried to retrieve by restoring by Calendar folder in Library from my oldest Time Machine backup, which was last September 2013. But this is not working. I go through the process, but none of the data loads... I only get three default calendars, Birthdays, Home, and Work (i think) but no data present.
What am I doing wrong in restoring this from Time Machine?
(to confirm, here are steps:
1. I am turning off wifi and my iphone
2. Enter time machine
3. Restore Calendar folder
4. Exiting TM and REPLACE calendar folder with old one
5. Also tried restoring the iCal files in Preferences, but this didn't help either.)
Thanks.

Thomas - You are awesome - THANK YOU!
I did exactly what you said (CAN"T believe an Apple Genius did not know this) and I think all of my events got restored.
However, it duplicated all of the calendars - I have 6 (one for each family member plus an extra called home that we all have to do).   Not sure if I did something wrong, but do you have any ideas?
Also, the time setting must be wrong b/c I have events from 2008 showing up in 2012 - same day and time as the old sessoin - just out dated.    Do I need to manually change all of this?   Should I delete the Calendars folder again and try again?
Also, I read some where about deleting a iCal cache file.   Do I need to do this?
I TRULY appreciate you taking the time to help people in this forum.   I have spent hours the past two days trying to figure this out.   Plus, now I need to figure out about upgrading my Office for Mac b/c I didn't realize I lost Office 2004 when upgrading to Lion.
Thank you for your time and support!
Lori

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Thomas - You are awesome - THANK YOU!
I did exactly what you said (CAN"T believe an Apple Genius did not know this) and I think all of my events got restored.
However, it duplicated all of the calendars - I have 6 (one for each family member plus an extra called home that we all have to do).   Not sure if I did something wrong, but do you have any ideas?
Also, the time setting must be wrong b/c I have events from 2008 showing up in 2012 - same day and time as the old sessoin - just out dated.    Do I need to manually change all of this?   Should I delete the Calendars folder again and try again?
Also, I read some where about deleting a iCal cache file.   Do I need to do this?
I TRULY appreciate you taking the time to help people in this forum.   I have spent hours the past two days trying to figure this out.   Plus, now I need to figure out about upgrading my Office for Mac b/c I didn't realize I lost Office 2004 when upgrading to Lion.
Thank you for your time and support!
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