Use Subquery Or Group By?

Some what of a SQL noobie here, I'm struggling with how to create the statement.

I have two tables,

Event
EventDates

it's a 0ne to many relationship each event can have several dates, problem is I want to get only one instance (distinct) of every event but I have to have it sorted by the date. So I have to inner join the two, I"ve done that with the following statement,

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SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT dbo.tblEventsDates.*, dbo.tblEvent.IDEventRef AS idEventRef
FROM dbo.tblEvent INNER JOIN
dbo.tblEventsDates ON dbo.tblEvent.IDEvents = dbo.tblEventsDates.IDEvents
WHERE (dbo.tblEvent.IDEventRef = 0) AND (dbo.tblEvent.fldStatusWorkflow = 3) AND (dbo.tblEvent.fldStatus = 1) AND (dbo.tblEventsDates.fldStatus = 1)
ORDER BY dbo.tblEventsDates.fldDateStart
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But how do I weed out the duplicate events while still maintaining the correct sort order? I wrapped that with a select disctinct, then did a select * from by table events where IDEvents in, but I lose my sort order.

TIA,
John