IPhoto 9.6 all events gone

Technical details:
OS X Yosemite ver. 10.10
iPhoto 9.6
iMac (27" , late 2009) 2,666 Ghz Intel Core i5 4Gb ram 1067 Mhz DDR3
Problem:
After upgrading to Yosemite and iPhoto 9.6, the first time I opened iPhoto it started to update the library, when it finished there were only 4 Events, it should have been hundreds, as there´re more than 15 thousands photos.
Then I follow the Library First Aid and rebuild the library but nothing happened.
I'm not using iCloud, no external drive for iPhoto library

No back up then?
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.

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