Facebook revamps Events with Calendar and List views

With an expansion of the social network's Events page, users can now see friends' birthdays, parties, and all other events far in advance.

The Calendar view in Facebook's redesigned Events page.

What started out as a Facebook hackathon project has led to the social network's new-fangled Events page design.

Starting today, Facebook is rolling out its redesigned Events page, which comes with Calendar and List views. Now users can see birthdays, parties, RSVPs, and all other events up to several months in advance of the current date.

Spearheaded by Facebook software engineer Bob Baldwin, who created the homepage Events permalink at an earlier hackathon, the new Events design was fashioned to make it easier for users to organize their events, make plans, and see their friends' birthdays.

"Before a recent hackathon, a few of us created a Facebook group called 'Social Calendar Dreamers' to spark discussion around making Events more visual," Baldwin wrote in a blog post today. "At the next hackathon, engineers from the events, photos, messages, and other teams hacked through the night to build a better way to view events. By 6 a.m., we had a prototype that worked."