One Event created when importing photos from many dates

This is my first time using iPhoto, and I imported a few hundred images from my camera dating back about 7 months. I viewed the tutorial, and my understanding was that different events would be created based on the date of the files. Instead, it created one huge event of the date I imported them. Is that the way it operates? One this I was able to do with the app I used on Windoze was to have the images go into directories named by the date, so images were separated by day. Is there a way to specify that in iPhoto, or do I manually have to create events by splitting them once they are all in my Event that is dated the day I actually imported them?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. How photos are separated when imported is set in iPhoto's Events preference pane:
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When importing from the Finder, i.e. a folder on the hard drive, all of the photos will be in a single Event unless that checkbox that's pointed to in the screenshot is checked.
FWIW my workflow is to upload after every shoot to a folder, name the folder to identify the occasion of the photos and import the folder into iPhoto. This gives me an Event with the same name as the folder. I also rename the photos with the international date format for the date the photos were taken: YYYY-MM-DD-001.jpg, -002.jpg, etc. This avoids duplicate file name issues that can crop up at a later date.
I then have the camera reformat the memory card for the next shoot.

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