diff --git a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer/OtOpcUaNodeManager.cs b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer/OtOpcUaNodeManager.cs
index bee425d6..80d601a1 100644
--- a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer/OtOpcUaNodeManager.cs
+++ b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer/OtOpcUaNodeManager.cs
@@ -1055,11 +1055,12 @@ public sealed class OtOpcUaNodeManager : CustomNodeManager2
     // it validates handles under Lock, builds `nodesToProcess` (a NodeHandle list for nodes WE own
     // that carry the HistoryRead access bit), validates the timestamp args, handles
     // `releaseContinuationPoints`, and dispatches by `details` runtime type to the per-details
-    // protected virtuals below. We override the three variable-history virtuals; HistoryReadEvents is
-    // left to the base (Task 4 adds it). Each override receives the pre-filtered handles and fills
-    // results[handle.Index] / errors[handle.Index] — handle.Index is the original index into the
-    // service-level results/errors lists, seeded by the base. The base pre-seeds every handle's error
-    // to BadHistoryOperationUnsupported, so a handle we don't recognise stays "unsupported" by default.
+    // protected virtuals below. We override all four arms: the three variable-history virtuals
+    // (Raw/Processed/AtTime) and the event-history arm (HistoryReadEvents, Task 4). Each override
+    // receives the pre-filtered handles and fills results[handle.Index] / errors[handle.Index] —
+    // handle.Index is the original index into the service-level results/errors lists, seeded by the
+    // base. The base pre-seeds every handle's error to BadHistoryOperationUnsupported, so a handle
+    // we don't recognise stays "unsupported" by default.
     //
     // NOTE: unlike OnWriteValue, the SDK does NOT hold the node-manager Lock while invoking these, so
     // block-bridging the async data source (GetAwaiter().GetResult()) is safe — it can't freeze the
@@ -1196,8 +1197,10 @@ public sealed class OtOpcUaNodeManager : CustomNodeManager2
             if (idString is null || !_eventNotifierSources.TryGetValue(idString, out var sourceName))
             {
                 // Not a registered event-history source (plain folder / Null-source promotion) ⇒ unsupported.
-                // (The base pre-seeds this same status; set it explicitly so the contract is local + obvious.)
+                // Set both errors and results explicitly on every bad path — don't rely on the SDK base
+                // pre-seeding results[i], so every path is self-contained and the contract is obvious.
                 errors[handle.Index] = StatusCodes.BadHistoryOperationUnsupported;
+                results[handle.Index] = new SdkHistoryReadResult { StatusCode = StatusCodes.BadHistoryOperationUnsupported };
                 continue;
             }
 
@@ -1231,6 +1234,7 @@ public sealed class OtOpcUaNodeManager : CustomNodeManager2
                 Utils.LogError(ex, "OtOpcUaNodeManager: HistoryReadEvents failed for node {0}", handle.NodeId);
 #pragma warning restore CS0618
                 errors[handle.Index] = StatusCodes.BadHistoryOperationUnsupported;
+                results[handle.Index] = new SdkHistoryReadResult { StatusCode = StatusCodes.BadHistoryOperationUnsupported };
             }
         }
     }
@@ -1289,7 +1293,7 @@ public sealed class OtOpcUaNodeManager : CustomNodeManager2
         {
             // BaseEventType/EventId is a ByteString — encode the driver-specific string id as UTF-8 bytes.
             "EventId" => new Variant(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(evt.EventId ?? string.Empty)),
-            "SourceName" => new Variant(evt.SourceName), // string; null ⇒ Variant.Null
+            "SourceName" => evt.SourceName is null ? Variant.Null : new Variant(evt.SourceName),
             "Time" => new Variant(evt.EventTimeUtc),
             "ReceiveTime" => new Variant(evt.ReceivedTimeUtc),
             "Message" => new Variant(new LocalizedText(evt.Message ?? string.Empty)),
diff --git a/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer.Tests/NodeManagerHistoryReadEventsTests.cs b/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer.Tests/NodeManagerHistoryReadEventsTests.cs
index 6c4f20d7..17c92570 100644
--- a/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer.Tests/NodeManagerHistoryReadEventsTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer.Tests/NodeManagerHistoryReadEventsTests.cs
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ public sealed class NodeManagerHistoryReadEventsTests : IDisposable
     /// <summary>Happy path: the fake receives (sourceName == the equipment-folder id, StartTime, EndTime,
     /// maxEvents), and each returned event decodes to a HistoryEventFieldList whose EventFields are in
     /// SelectClause ORDER with correctly-typed Variants (EventId ByteString, SourceName string, Time
-    /// DateTime, Message LocalizedText, Severity UInt16). StatusCode is Good when events are present.</summary>
+    /// DateTime, ReceiveTime DateTime, Message LocalizedText, Severity UInt16). StatusCode is Good when
+    /// events are present.</summary>
     [Fact]
     public async Task Events_dispatches_to_source_and_projects_fields_in_select_order()
     {
@@ -57,7 +58,8 @@ public sealed class NodeManagerHistoryReadEventsTests : IDisposable
             StartTime = start,
             EndTime = end,
             NumValuesPerNode = 50,
-            Filter = SelectFilter("EventId", "SourceName", "Time", "Message", "Severity"),
+            // ReceiveTime is included to verify it projects evt.ReceivedTimeUtc at index 3.
+            Filter = SelectFilter("EventId", "SourceName", "Time", "ReceiveTime", "Message", "Severity"),
         };
 
         var (results, errors) = InvokeHistoryRead(server, nm, details, notifierNodeId);
@@ -74,18 +76,20 @@ public sealed class NodeManagerHistoryReadEventsTests : IDisposable
         var history = (HistoryEvent)ExtensionObject.ToEncodeable(results[0].HistoryData);
         history.Events.Count.ShouldBe(1);
         var fields = history.Events[0].EventFields;
-        fields.Count.ShouldBe(5);
+        fields.Count.ShouldBe(6);
 
         // EventId ⇒ ByteString (UTF-8 of "evt-42").
         fields[0].Value.ShouldBeOfType<byte[]>().ShouldBe(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("evt-42"));
         // SourceName ⇒ string.
         fields[1].Value.ShouldBe("Pump_001");
-        // Time ⇒ DateTime.
+        // Time ⇒ DateTime (event occurrence time).
         fields[2].Value.ShouldBe(evtTime);
+        // ReceiveTime ⇒ DateTime (server receipt time = ReceivedTimeUtc).
+        fields[3].Value.ShouldBe(rcvTime);
         // Message ⇒ LocalizedText.
-        fields[3].Value.ShouldBeOfType<LocalizedText>().Text.ShouldBe("Pump tripped");
+        fields[4].Value.ShouldBeOfType<LocalizedText>().Text.ShouldBe("Pump tripped");
         // Severity ⇒ UInt16.
-        fields[4].Value.ShouldBe((ushort)700);
+        fields[5].Value.ShouldBe((ushort)700);
 
         await host.DisposeAsync();
     }
@@ -204,8 +208,20 @@ public sealed class NodeManagerHistoryReadEventsTests : IDisposable
         await host.DisposeAsync();
     }
 
-    /// <summary>A node we own that is NOT a registered event-notifier source (a plain variable node) ⇒
-    /// BadHistoryOperationUnsupported; the source is never invoked.</summary>
+    /// <summary>A variable node targeted by a HistoryReadEvents request ⇒ BadHistoryOperationUnsupported;
+    /// the source is never invoked.
+    /// <para>
+    ///     NOTE — what this test actually pins: the SDK base (CustomNodeManager2.HistoryRead) filters
+    ///     event-history reads by the <c>EventNotifier.HistoryRead</c> bit, NOT by
+    ///     <c>AccessLevel.HistoryRead</c>. A variable node carries <c>AccessLevel.HistoryRead</c> (for
+    ///     variable-history reads) but <c>EventNotifier = None</c> (no event-notifier bits at all). The
+    ///     SDK base therefore rejects it and does NOT pass it to our <c>HistoryReadEvents</c> override;
+    ///     the Bad result comes from the base's pre-seeding, not from our source-guard. This test pins
+    ///     that base-level rejection of variable nodes for event reads.
+    ///     The override's own source-guard (miss in <c>_eventNotifierSources</c>) is exercised by the
+    ///     <c>Events_folder_promoted_without_source_yields_BadHistoryOperationUnsupported</c> test instead.
+    /// </para>
+    /// </summary>
     [Fact]
     public async Task Events_non_source_node_yields_BadHistoryOperationUnsupported()
     {
@@ -214,8 +230,8 @@ public sealed class NodeManagerHistoryReadEventsTests : IDisposable
         var fake = new RecordingHistorianDataSource();
         nm.HistorianDataSource = fake;
 
-        // A historized variable node — owns the HistoryRead bit (so the base hands it to us) but is NOT an
-        // event-notifier source, so the Events arm must reject it.
+        // A historized variable node — has AccessLevel.HistoryRead (variable-history reads) but
+        // EventNotifier=None (no event-notifier bit). The SDK base rejects it before our override runs.
         nm.EnsureVariable("eq-1/temp", parentFolderNodeId: null, displayName: "Temp", dataType: "Float",
             writable: false, historianTagname: "WW.Temp");
         var nodeId = nm.TryGetVariable("eq-1/temp")!.NodeId;
@@ -237,7 +253,9 @@ public sealed class NodeManagerHistoryReadEventsTests : IDisposable
     }
 
     /// <summary>A backend that throws ⇒ that node's error is Bad and no exception escapes the
-    /// HistoryRead call.</summary>
+    /// HistoryRead call. The fake source MUST be invoked (proving we reached the bridge) and threw;
+    /// the production catch now sets BOTH errors and results explicitly, so both are asserted here
+    /// rather than relying on the SDK base pre-seeding results[i].</summary>
     [Fact]
     public async Task Events_backend_throw_yields_bad_status_and_does_not_escape()
     {
@@ -262,9 +280,16 @@ public sealed class NodeManagerHistoryReadEventsTests : IDisposable
         // The call must not throw even though the backend does.
         var (results, errors) = InvokeHistoryRead(server, nm, details, notifierNodeId);
 
-        StatusCode.IsBad(errors[0].StatusCode).ShouldBeTrue();
+        // Authoritative per-node signal: errors[0] must be Bad.
+        ServiceResult.IsBad(errors[0]).ShouldBeTrue();
         errors[0].StatusCode.Code.ShouldBe(StatusCodes.BadHistoryOperationUnsupported);
-        (results[0].StatusCode.Code == StatusCodes.GoodNoData).ShouldBeFalse();
+        // The production catch now sets results[0] explicitly — assert it directly (not relying on base seeding).
+        results[0].ShouldNotBeNull();
+        results[0].StatusCode.Code.ShouldBe(StatusCodes.BadHistoryOperationUnsupported);
+        // The source WAS entered (proving the override reached the bridge and the throw was swallowed).
+        fake.EventsEntered.ShouldBeTrue();
+        // ThrowOnRead fires before EventsCalled/LastSourceName are set — that's the throw path.
+        fake.EventsCalled.ShouldBeFalse();
 
         await host.DisposeAsync();
     }
@@ -319,6 +344,9 @@ public sealed class NodeManagerHistoryReadEventsTests : IDisposable
         public HistoricalEventsResult EventsResult { get; set; } =
             new(Array.Empty<HistoricalEvent>(), null);
 
+        /// <summary>Set on every ReadEventsAsync entry, even when ThrowOnRead causes it to throw
+        /// before EventsCalled is set — proves the override reached the bridge.</summary>
+        public bool EventsEntered { get; private set; }
         public bool EventsCalled { get; private set; }
         public string? LastSourceName { get; private set; }
         public DateTime LastStart { get; private set; }
@@ -343,6 +371,7 @@ public sealed class NodeManagerHistoryReadEventsTests : IDisposable
             string? sourceName, DateTime startUtc, DateTime endUtc, int maxEvents,
             CancellationToken cancellationToken)
         {
+            EventsEntered = true;
             if (ThrowOnRead) throw new InvalidOperationException("backend boom for events");
             EventsCalled = true;
             LastSourceName = sourceName;