Creating events programatically

Hello, I’m wondering if there is a tool to programmatically create events. Basically, this tool would do exactly what the event manager plugin does but is able to be triggered through a script so that we can have the event created on a schedule or when some other sort of event happens. I understand how it could technically be done through MySQL queries, but we wanted to see if there was something available before moving forward on that.

Thanks!
John