See our Event webmaster docs for full explanation of the Event type, and how to encode Event data in RDFa, microformats or microdata. This page exists to contain a machine-readable microdata description of the Event type itself (at the URI http://data-vocabulary.org/Event).
An item with the item type http://data-vocabulary.org/Event represents an event such as a concert, lecture, class, etc. The following are the type's defined property names

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Property	Description
summary	Required. The name of the event.
url	Link to the event details page.
location	The location or venue of the event. Can optionally be represented by nested Organization data, or nested Address data. Recommended (unless the page containing the markup is a page about the venue, and the location is the same for every event.) More information about nested entities.
description	A description of the event.
startDate (dtstart)	Required. The starting date and time of the event in ISO date format.
endDate (dtend)	The ending date and time of the event in ISO date format.
duration	The duration date of the event in ISO duration format.
eventType (category)	The category of the event, such as "Festival", "Concert", "Lecture".
geo	Specifies the geographical coordinates of the location. Includes two elements: latitude and longitude. Optional.
photo	A link to a photo or image related to the event.