We're using TEC on an Austrian traditional costume club <a href="http://goldhauben.neuhofen-ybbs.at/">website</a> both for announcing upcoming events and for tracking past ones in some sort of chronicle. To that end, I've hacked TEC v2.0.10 a bit to be able to have URLs like http://goldhauben.neuhofen-ybbs.at/events/2011/ that yield a descending…

yearlist.patch

diff --recursive -u the-events-calendar-orig/lib/the-events-calendar.class.php the-events-calendar/lib/the-events-calendar.class.php
--- the-events-calendar-orig/lib/the-events-calendar.class.php  2012-12-11 00:35:12.000000000 +0100
+++ the-events-calendar/lib/the-events-calendar.class.php	2012-12-26 16:53:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -1461,6 +1461,7 @@
 			$newRules[$base . $upcoming] = 'index.php?post_type=' . self::POSTTYPE . '&eventDisplay=upcoming';
 			$newRules[$base . $past . '/page/(\d+)'] = 'index.php?post_type=' . self::POSTTYPE . '&eventDisplay=past&paged=' . $wp_rewrite->preg_index(1);
 			$newRules[$base . $past] = 'index.php?post_type=' . self::POSTTYPE . '&eventDisplay=past';
+			$newRules[$base . '(\d{4})$'] = 'index.php?post_type=' . self::POSTTYPE . '&eventDisplay=year' .'&eventDate=' . $wp_rewrite->preg_index(1);
 			$newRules[$base . '(\d{4}-\d{2})$'] = 'index.php?post_type=' . self::POSTTYPE . '&eventDisplay=month' .'&eventDate=' . $wp_rewrite->preg_index(1);
 			$newRules[$base . '(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})$'] = 'index.php?post_type=' . self::POSTTYPE . '&eventDisplay=day' .'&eventDate=' . $wp_rewrite->preg_index(1);
 			$newRules[$base . 'feed/?$'] = 'index.php?eventDisplay=upcoming&post_type=' . self::POSTTYPE . '&feed=rss2';
@@ -2455,6 +2456,27 @@
 		}
 
 		/**
+		 * Given a date (YYYY-MM-DD), returns the first of the next year
+		 *
+		 * @param date
+		 * @return date
+		 */
+		public function nextYear( $date ) {
+			$dateParts = split( '-', $date );
+			return ++$dateParts[0] . '-01-01';
+		}
+		/**
+		 * Given a date (YYYY-MM-DD), return the last day of the previous year
+		 *
+		 * @param date
+		 * @return date
+		 */
+		public function previousYear( $date ) {
+			$dateParts = split( '-', $date );
+			return --$dateParts[0] . '-12-31';
+		}
+
+		/**
 		 * Callback for adding the Meta box to the admin page
 		 * @return void
 		 */
@@ -2871,4 +2893,4 @@
 
 	} // end TribeEvents class
 
-} // end if !class_exists TribeEvents
\ Kein Zeilenumbruch am Dateiende.
+} // end if !class_exists TribeEvents
diff --recursive -u the-events-calendar-orig/lib/tribe-event-query.class.php the-events-calendar/lib/tribe-event-query.class.php
--- the-events-calendar-orig/lib/tribe-event-query.class.php	2012-12-11 00:35:12.000000000 +0100
+++ the-events-calendar/lib/tribe-event-query.class.php	2012-12-26 16:51:43.000000000 +0100
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@
                   		break;				
                		case "month":
                   		$query = self::setMonthDisplayTypeArgs($query);				
+                        break;
+               		case "year":
+                  		$query = self::setYearDisplayTypeArgs($query);	
             	}
          	} else if ( is_single() ) {
 				$args = &$query->query_vars;
@@ -186,6 +189,27 @@
 		
 			return $query;		
 		}
+
+		// year functions
+		public static function setYearDisplayTypeArgs($query) {
+			global $wp_query;
+			$tribe_ecp = TribeEvents::instance();
+			$args = &$query->query_vars;		
+		
+			$args['posts_per_page'] = -1; // show ALL month posts
+			$args['start_date'] = date_i18n( TribeDateUtils::DBDATEFORMAT );
+			$args['start_date'] = substr_replace( $args['start_date'], '01-01', -5 );
+
+			if ( isset ( $wp_query->query_vars['eventDate'] ) )
+				$args['start_date'] = $wp_query->query_vars['eventDate'] . "-01-01";
+
+			$args['eventDate'] = $args['start_date'];		
+			$args['end_date'] = date( 'Y-m-d', strtotime( $tribe_ecp->nextYear($args['start_date']) ) -(24*3600) );
+			$args['orderby'] = 'event_date';
+			$args['order'] = "DESC";
+		
+			return $query;		
+		}
 
 		public static function addEventConditions($where, $cur_query) {
 			global $wpdb;
diff --recursive -u the-events-calendar-orig/lib/tribe-templates.class.php the-events-calendar/lib/tribe-templates.class.php
--- the-events-calendar-orig/lib/tribe-templates.class.php	2012-12-11 00:35:12.000000000 +0100
+++ the-events-calendar/lib/tribe-templates.class.php	2012-12-26 16:06:26.000000000 +0100
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
 				$template = TribeEventsTemplates::getTemplateHierarchy('single');
 			}
 			// list view
-			elseif ( tribe_is_upcoming() || tribe_is_past() || tribe_is_day() || (is_single() && tribe_is_showing_all()) ) {
+			elseif ( tribe_is_upcoming() || tribe_is_past() || tribe_is_day() || tribe_is_year() || (is_single() && tribe_is_showing_all()) ) {
 				$template = TribeEventsTemplates::getTemplateHierarchy('list');
 			}
 			// grid view
diff --recursive -u the-events-calendar-orig/public/template-tags/loop.php the-events-calendar/public/template-tags/loop.php
--- the-events-calendar-orig/public/template-tags/loop.php	2012-12-11 00:35:12.000000000 +0100
+++ the-events-calendar/public/template-tags/loop.php	2012-12-26 16:04:52.000000000 +0100
@@ -50,6 +50,18 @@
 		return ($tribe_ecp->displaying == 'day') ? true : false;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Single Year Test
+	 *
+	 * Returns true if the query is set for single year, false otherwise
+	 * 
+	 * @return bool
+	 * @since 2.0
+	 */
+	function tribe_is_year()  {
+		$tribe_ecp = TribeEvents::instance();
+		return ($tribe_ecp->displaying == 'year') ? true : false;
+	}
 
 	/**
 	 * Past Loop View Test
@@ -175,4 +187,4 @@
 	}
 
 }
-?>
\ Kein Zeilenumbruch am Dateiende.
+?>