Photostream Events Deleting in iPhoto?

Question on Photostream in iPhoto. I have iPhoto set to automatically import photo's to events and my events appear as separate days in the Events section of iPhoto. I also see one event per month for the Photostream photo's for that month...so November 2013 Photostream for the current month for example. The photo's in the photostream event don't appear in the event for the day the photo was taken....i.e. they are not duplicated in two events....the monthly photostream and day event. I have noticed today that the oldest monthly photostream is October 2012 Photostream. I have ~500 photo's in My Photostream. There must have been monthly photostream events earlier than October 2012 so my questions are -
1. do the monthly photostream events delete from iPhoto after a set period of time even if you have not reached the 1000 photo limit, and
2. if a monthly photostreram event is deleted, are all photo's in the photostream event deleted if they are not appearinmg as separate day events (the event being the date the photo's were taken on) and even though I have automatic import into events turned on?
Thanks
Brian

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Assuming that iPhoto > preferences > PhotoStream > automatic import is checked then yes, photos from PhotoStream are automatically imported into monthly events and are saved even when PhotoStream deletes the photos due to numbers/time restrictions.

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