Icloud deleted all contacts from phone

recently had to get a new laptop due to harddrive meltdown on old one, have not been able to sinc phone since as its tied to the odl dead laptop, thought I would try backing up to icloud, logged in on my iphone and it deleted all my contacts and calender details.
why did this happen and can I upload everything from my ipad and sinc phone back to those slightly out of date info rather than starting from scratch.
cheers
neil

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Try here > iCloud: Backup and restore overview

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