Event may refer to:

Gatherings of people

* Ceremony, an event of ritual significance, performed on a special occasion * Convention (meeting), a gathering of individuals engaged in some common interest *

Event management Event management is the application of project management to the creation and development of small and/or large-scale personal or corporate events such as festivals, conferences, ceremonies, weddings, formal parties, concerts, or conventions. ...

, the organization of events *

Festival A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival ...

, an event that celebrates some unique aspect of a community * Happening, a type of artistic performance *

Media event A media event, also known as a pseudo-event, is an event, activity, or experience conducted for the purpose of media publicity. It may also include any event that is covered in the mass media or was hosted largely with the media in mind. In media ...

, an event created for publicity *

Party A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion. A party will often featur ...

, a social, recreational or corporate events held * Sporting event, at which athletic competition takes place * Virtual event, a gathering of individuals within a virtual environment

Science, technology, and mathematics

* Event (computing), a software message indicating that something has happened, such as a keystroke or mouse click * Event (philosophy), an object in time, or an instantiation of a property in an object * Event (probability theory), a set of outcomes to which a probability is assigned * Event (relativity), a point in space at an instant in time, i.e. a location in spacetime * Event (synchronization primitive), a type of synchronization mechanism * Event (UML), in Unified Modeling Language, a notable occurrence at a particular point in time * Event (particle physics), refers to the results just after a fundamental interaction took place between subatomic particles * Event horizon, a boundary in spacetime, typically surrounding a black hole, beyond which events cannot affect an exterior observer * Extinction event, a sharp decrease in the number of extant species in a short period of time * Impact event, in which an extraterrestrial object impacts planet * Mental event, something that happens in the mind, such as a thought

Arts and entertainment

* ''The Event'', an American conspiracy thriller television series for NBC * The Event (2003 film), ''The Event'' (2003 film), directed by Thom Fitzgerald * The Event (2015 film), ''The Event'' (2015 film), directed by Sergei Loznitsa * ''Derren Brown: The Events'', a Channel 4 television series featuring the illusionist Derren Brown * ''Event'', a literary magazine published by Douglas College

Business

* Event Communications, a London-based museum design consultancy

* Competition, a contest between organisms, animals, individuals, groups, etc. * Disaster, an event causing significant damage or destruction, loss of life, or change to the environment * Event chain methodology, in project management * Eventing, an equestrian event comprising dressage, cross-country and show-jumping * Eventive (disambiguation) * Grouped Events, in philosophy, the experience of two or more events that occur in sequence or concurrently that can be subsequently categorized * Event (yacht), ''Event'' (yacht), a yacht built by Amels Holland B.V. * News, new information or information on current events * Phenomenon, any observable occurrence * Portal:Current events, (Wikipedia portal) * Sequence of events * Sustainable event management or Event Greening * The Event (disambiguation) {{Disambiguation

Gatherings of people

Science, technology, and mathematics

Arts and entertainment

Business

See also