Question

what is a person's explanation for a past event known as

Answer 1

no idea but recover or phylosopher may be

Answer 2

A person’s explanation for a past event is known as historical interpretation.

Historical interpretation is someone’s specific idea regarding past events.

These interpretations of an individual answers questions like 'how' or 'why' an event has taken place in past.

Through this process a historian usually formulates various interpretations and they construct their view on historical events.