diff --git a/R/event.R b/R/event.R
index 073201f..0bd0cf1 100644
--- a/R/event.R
+++ b/R/event.R
@@ -44,17 +44,26 @@ dyEvent <- function(dygraph,
     warning("Argument 'date' is deprecated, please use argument 'x' instead")
   }
   
-  # create event
-  event <- list()
-  event$pos <- ifelse(dygraph$x$format == "date", asISO8601Time(x), x)
-  event$label <- label
-  event$labelLoc <- match.arg(labelLoc)
-  event$color <- color
-  event$strokePattern <- resolveStrokePattern(strokePattern)
-  event$axis <- "x"
+  # create events
+  if (!is.null(label) && length(x) != length(label))
+    stop("Length of 'x' and 'label' does not match")
+  events <-
+    lapply(
+      seq_along(x), function(i)
+      {
+        list(
+          pos = ifelse(dygraph$x$format == "date", asISO8601Time(x[i]), x[i])
+         ,label = ifelse(is.null(label),NULL, label[i] )
+         ,labelLoc = match.arg(labelLoc, c("top", "bottom"))
+         ,color = color
+         ,strokePattern = resolveStrokePattern(strokePattern)
+         ,axis = "x"
+        )
+      }
+    )
  
   # add it to list of events
-  dygraph$x$events[[length(dygraph$x$events) + 1]] <- event
+  dygraph$x$events <- c(dygraph$x$events, events)
   
   # return modified dygraph
   dygraph
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-event.R b/tests/testthat/test-event.R
index 90e0ddf..76dd3b8 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-event.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-event.R
@@ -4,8 +4,11 @@ context("dyEvent")
 test_that("event creation", {
   d <- dygraph(presidents, main = "Presidential Approval") %>%
          dyEvent(x = "1950-6-30", "Korea", labelLoc = "bottom") %>%
-         dyEvent(x = "1965-2-09", "Vietnam", labelLoc = "bottom")   
+         dyEvent(x = "1965-2-09", "Vietnam", labelLoc = "bottom")
+  dd <- dygraph(presidents, main = "Presidential Approval") %>%
+         dyEvent(x = c("1950-6-30", "1965-2-09"), c("Korea", "Vietnam"), labelLoc = "bottom")
   expect_equal(length(d$x$events), 2)
+  expect_identical(d, dd)
   expect_identical(d$x$events[[1]]$label, "Korea")
   expect_identical(d$x$events[[2]]$label, "Vietnam")
 })