Pictures from various event folders mistakenly merged to one event folder.

In trying to move 15 photos to iMovie, I did a sellect all and went to move the photos.  When I realized I was dragging all 5,000+ photos, I moved the mouse back to iphoto.  This action moved all 5,000+ photos from their made event pholders into one event folder.  I saw the spinning wheel and forced a quit in hoping that would stop the merge.  Upon reopening iphoto, all my photos were now in this one event.  Is there a way to get my photos back to the individual events?  Would Time Machine help? because I have backups, or do I have to accept the painsaking job of creating individual folder events and move all 5,000+ photos.  Signed,  What was I thinking to use a shortcut????

Were your events based on capture dates? Then you could use the "autosplit" command to split the event again.
From the main menu bar:  Events > Autosplit Selected Events
This will split your merged events into smaller events again, based on the time time you set in the Preferences.
See:  iPhoto '11: Merge or split Events - Support - Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2362?viewlocale=en_US
But if you invested a lot of time into naming your events and setting attributes for them, you might prefer to restore your iPhoto Library from the backups. If you have a TimeMachine backup, open TimeMachine, dive back into the TimeTunnel while browsing your "Pictures" folder, and then restore your iPhotoLibrary.
Regards
Léonie

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