Why can't I go back in time to replace lost info in iCal.app

I lost all my info in my iCal proram. I went back in the time machine to get where I knew the data would be. However when I brought the old iCal back, there was no data there. What might I have done wrong??
Thanks
Dan Page
Hawaii

hey danpage.
there are a couple of things to check here: first, you mentioned you restored iCal.app - that leads me to believe you restored the application itself, rather than your actual user files from ~/Library/
second, if these calendar events were not stored locally (i.e. they were stored with iCloud, or Gmail, Yahoo, etc rather than "On my Mac"), then restoring from time machine will not resolve the issue, as the data was actually stored on external servers. I do not know what happened that led to the data loss, but if they were stored in a cloud service, you may be able to contact that company for information on data recovery (i.e. contact Apple if iCloud was used, Google if Gmail was used).

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