Recover lost iCal information through iCloud (or Time Machine?)

I recently had the misfortune of accidentally deleting all of my iCal events on my iPhone. I was using Awesome Note and saw that my calendar events appeared in the app, and not wanting them there, attempted to delete them out. Little did I know that this action would affect my phone's iCal events - and because I'm hooked up to iCloud I no longer have the events now on my computer or iCloud account online. I do have Time Machine running but have been unsuccessful so far in recovering my events via that route. I see that my iTunes says it backs my iPhone up to iCloud but I have no idea how to recover this data. HELP! Isn't this iCloud/Time Machine supposed to make it easy to fix a problem like this??

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