Restore ical events WITHOUT time machine

So I just got my new iphone and was trying to link it to icloud, the problem is that my macbook air is not linked to icloud. So when I tried to setup icloud on my macbook, it erased all my calender events on my macbook.
I don't have time machine. Is there anyway to get those calender events back?
Please Help!

HELP! Please.
I am a new iMac user. For weeks, the system ran perfect. This morning, I tried to synch my iCal with Google Calendar to let others have access to my events. Somehow, after the sync, all events at my iCal suddenly disappeared. Not just that, the list of calendars (private, business, etc.) was gone too. I then tried to synch iCal with all the events stored in my iPhone, but that only lead to my iPhone calendar being completely deleted too. I am totally desparate now. What happened? I then tried to use Time Machine to restore. But in earlier time machine dates, there was no calendar folder which I could use to replace mine. But I could not find a calendar folder there. Thank you for helping. Kind regards from Munich, Germany.

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    When i went to migrate MobileMe to iCloud, it said "make sure you back up your calendars first" and I almost didn't do it because I figured I have TM if I need it, but decided just to be safe...
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    HELP!
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    Please Help me!

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  • Restoring my System with Time Machine to a new HD without the Snow Leopard DVD

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    Insert your original Mac OS 10.5 Leopard DVD and reboot while holding down the “C” key.
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    The “Restore Your System” window reminds you that this procedure will erase all data on your Macs internal hard disk. Click “Continue”.
    At “Select a Backup Source” choose your Time Machine backup disk and click “Continue”. (If the backup disk you are restoring from is a network drive then click “Connect to Remote Disk”. Next, choose the disk image from which the restore will be drawn from and click “Continue”.)
    At “Select a Backup” choose from which set of backups you would like to “Restore From” in the drop-down menu. (If your backup drive only has one set, this will be grayed out.)
    Next, highlight the date and Mac OS X version from which you would like to restore.
    Click “Continue”.
    At “Select a Destination” choose your Macs’ internal hard disk. Give the installer time while it calculates the space required for the restore. When ready click “Restore”.
    Confirm your desire to erase the drive by clicking “Continue”.
    Obviously, this will take quite some time. But when the installer finally announces it has finish, click “Restart”.
    After logging in, immediately go to System Preferences --> Time Machine, and turn “OFF” backups, even if a backup attempted has begun.
    Next, Launch Disk Utility, select your Macs’ internal disk on the left, and click “Repair Disk Permissions”.
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    Finally, turn Time Machine back “ON” in the Preferences. Time Machine should continue to backup to the same set of backups that it did prior to the restore. However, due to event logs being out of sync, the first backup will require a lengthy session of “Preparing...” as Time Machine performs a “deep traversal”. Allow this to proceed uninterrupted. Additionally, the subsequent backup may be quite substantial involving many GB of data, but don’t be alarmed.
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    Do you want to provide feedback on this User Contributed Tip or contribute your own? If you have achieved Level 2 status, visit the User Tips Library Contributions forum for more information.

    Beardpapa wrote:
    -I popped in a laptop hd I had lying around while waiting for the RMA replacement on the dead one, and did a remote restore in Snow Leopard Dvd utility using my latest TM backup (used mount_afp afp://user:pw@host/ etc etc etc in terminal).
    Did you do a full system restore, per #14 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum)?
    If so, everything should have been restored, just like they say, unless things were excluded from Time Machine (there's some very bad advice about that on the internet).
    All the things you describe are in +*<home folder>/Library/Preferences.+* If you used +Migration Assistant+ instead, you may have an extra user account, that has the restored preferences.
    -I also looked over at the User Tips post by Glenn Carter on Restoring Your Entire System / Time Machine.
    That applies to Leopard only.

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