Why are my events deleted?

I did MANY hours of work on a calendar.  About a month later, I went in to continue to work on it and all of my work appears to be gone.  The calendar only shows a few birthdays.  I had all kinds of other monthly meetings inserted and they are all gone.

Greetings Darren,
If you hadn't touched iCal in a month its hard to know exactly what could have caused the events to go missing as it could have occured any time in that month time frame.
Do you have a backup? -- This is the easiest method of fixing such an issue. If you don't have a backup, consider it for the future: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1553
Are your calendars stored on the computer "On My Mac" or on a server like MobileMe / Gmail / Yahoo?
You can try refreshing your calendar to see if that helps:
1.) Remove the following to the trash and restart your computer:
Home > Library > Caches > com.apple.ical
Home > Library > Calendars > Calendar Cache, Cache, Cache 1, 2, 3, etc. (Do not remove Sync Cache or Theme Cache if present)
Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.ical (There may be more than one of these. Remove them all.)
---NOTE: Removing these files may remove any shared (CalDAV) calendars you may have access to. You will have to re-add those calendars to iCal > Preferences > Accounts.
2. Launch iCal and test.
Hope that helps.

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