Events in event sourcing hold actual change from the past. This means the sequence of events could be treated as a factual history.

A factual history is something that does not change, and of course happened in the past.

Reference

Hoffman, Kevin. Real-World Event Sourcing: Distribute, Evolve, and Scale Your Elixir Applications. The Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2025. The Pragmatic Programmers.

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