Lost Event in Iphoto!

I don't know how to properly explain it, but I'll try my best. 
So I was transferring photos fromt PhotoBooth to iPhoto and when I wanted to put those photos in the right "event" in iPhoto, the event is nowhere to be found. I've done literally everything I could possibly think of. I haven't previously deleted the folder or any of the photos.
- I've checked my 'photos' in iPhoto and none of the photos are there.
- I've checked the 'trash' in iPhoto and none of the photos have been deleted
- I've restarted my laptop.
- I have also checked the rubbish bin and again none of the photos have been deleted.
- I've looked up a video where they told me the command + option and open up iPhoto but that didn't help slightly.
- I've looked through all my 'events' just to check if I might've merged the photos to another event, but it was successful.
I've tried everything. I never touched iPhoto recently so I have absolutely no idea why any photos would be missing. If anyone has any ideas what happened and knows a way to get my photos back, that would be lovely.

Details please. What version of iPhoto and of the OS? Exactly how were you transferring photos from PhotoBooth to iPhoto? Are the photos in last import or last "n" months?
LN

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