Events change history.
The truth often lies somewhere between the telling of the events and the re-telling over time as the exaggerated testimony of witnesses proven as well as unproven, thus making for entangled tales that require unknotting and deciphering until a credible narrative emerges that is consistent with the individual and collective memories that compRise a cultural phenomenon, or a war or a momentous chang.
And the telling of events often also changesHistory.
Events make history.
Events change history