diff --git a/app.js b/app.js
index 8c75a02..385888c 100644
--- a/app.js
+++ b/app.js
@@ -5,14 +5,20 @@ var logger = require('morgan');
 var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
 var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
 var cors = require('cors')
+var db = require('./model/db');
+
+
 
 // route imports
 var index = require('./routes/index');
 var events = require('./routes/events');
 
+<<<<<<< HEAD
 
 
 
+=======
+>>>>>>> add events route and fetching from the database
 // TODO: add your route file here:
 var events = require('./routes/events');
 
diff --git a/data/myevents.js b/data/myevents.js
index 11be410..c0d0266 100644
--- a/data/myevents.js
+++ b/data/myevents.js
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ title: "Test3",
 subtitle: "This is a subtitle",
 date: "17/Dec/2017 12:00",
 location: "Athens, Greece",
-shortdescription: "Hello421",
 organizer: "IEEE ATEITH SB",
 image:image,
 description: "Greatly hearted has who believe. Drift allow green son walls"+
@@ -24,7 +23,6 @@ title: "Test4",
 subtitle: "",
 date: "22/Dec/2017 13:00",
 location: "Athens, Greece",
-shortdescription: "Hello235",
 organizer: "IEEE ATEITH SB",
 image:"./img/ReactJS.png",
 description: "Greatly hearted has who believe. Drift allow green son walls"+
@@ -43,7 +41,6 @@ title: "Test5",
 subtitle: "This is a subtitle",
 date: "29/Dec/2017 14:30",
 location: "Athens, Greece",
-shortdescription: "Hello63278",
 organizer: "IEEE ATEITH SB",
 image:"./img/ReactJS.png",
 description: "Greatly hearted has who believe. Drift allow green son walls"+
@@ -62,7 +59,6 @@ title: "Test1",
 subtitle: "This is a subtitle",
 date: "10/Dec/2016 15:00",
 location: "Thessaloniki, Greece",
-shortdescription: "Hello",
 organizer: "IEEE ATEITH SB",
 image:"./img/ReactJS.png",
 description: "Greatly hearted has who believe. Drift allow green son walls"+
@@ -81,7 +77,6 @@ title: "Test2",
 subtitle: "This is a subtitle",
 date: "15/Dec/2016 16:00",
 location: "Athens, Greece",
-shortdescription: "Hello3",
 organizer: "IEEE ATEITH SB",
 image:"./img/ReactJS.png",
 description: "Greatly hearted has who believe. Drift allow green son walls"+
diff --git a/model/db.js b/model/db.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ae7c150
--- /dev/null
+++ b/model/db.js
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+var mongoose = require('mongoose')
+
+var user = encodeURIComponent('branch_webpage');
+var passwd = encodeURIComponent('passwd');
+var authMechanism = 'DEFAULT';
+
+var url = `mongodb://${user}:${passwd}@cluster0-shard-00-00-vyvir.mongodb.net:27017,cluster0-shard-00-01-vyvir.mongodb.net:27017,cluster0-shard-00-02-vyvir.mongodb.net:27017/test?ssl=true&replicaSet=Cluster0-shard-0&authSource=admin`;
+mongoose.connect(url);
+
+var connection = mongoose.connection;
+connection.on('error', console.error.bind(console, 'connection error:'));
+connection.once('open', function() {
+  console.log("Connected to the database");
+  console.log(`using ${user} and ${passwd}`);
+});
diff --git a/model/event.js b/model/event.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8df64b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/model/event.js
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+var mongoose = require('mongoose');
+
+const eventSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
+  title: {type: String, default: 'empty_title', trim: true},
+  body: {type: String, default: 'empty_body', trim: true}
+});
+
+var EventData = mongoose.model('Event', eventSchema);
+
+var exports = module.exports = {
+  mongoose,
+  EventData
+};
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 7953955..799679e 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
     "debug": "~2.6.9",
     "ejs": "~2.5.7",
     "express": "~4.15.5",
+    "mongoose": "^5.0.7",
     "morgan": "~1.9.0",
     "serve-favicon": "~2.4.5"
   }
diff --git a/public/images/expressjs.jpg b/public/images/expressjs.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4ee55e9
Binary files /dev/null and b/public/images/expressjs.jpg differ
diff --git a/routes/events.js b/routes/events.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5def312
--- /dev/null
+++ b/routes/events.js
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+var  eventsData = require('./../data/myevents');
+
+var express = require('express');
+var router = express.Router();
+
+var EventModel = require('./../model/event.js');
+var EventData = EventModel.EventData;
+
+
+/* GET home page. */
+router.get('/', function(req, res, next) {
+  console.log("this is a line");
+  const empty = {empty: "error"}
+
+  EventData.find((err, lalas)=>{
+    if (err) return console.error(err);
+      res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
+      res.send(lalas);
+  })
+  //res.send(empty);
+});
+
+module.exports = router;
diff --git a/views/error.ejs b/views/error.ejs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7cf94ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/views/error.ejs
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+<h1><%= message %></h1>
+<h2><%= error.status %></h2>
+<pre><%= error.stack %></pre>