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[cochramd]

Is there any way to play with what events are eligible to show up in engravings, statues, figurines and decorations? I'm a bit sick of having my fortress covered in engravings of dwarves producing masterwork crafts and the slaughtering of tame animals, and not my military reducing creeping eyes into fine paste.

[NJW2000]

For decorations, search decoration or art in the civ, I'm not sure which. Art: number or something, perhaps, will apply to all art of this kind.

tl;dr the entity, civilisation file will get you what you need after a bit of fiddling.

[scamtank]

Employ amateurs. It seems that the more skilled an engraver/artisan gets, the more he starts going after arbitrary historical events (which can be limited to like two total, it seems) instead of the art dictated by entity settings.

[cochramd]

I've looked at my fort in legend mode, and it appears that every tame animal I've ever had is a historical figure, and the production of every masterwork ever was recorded as a historical event. So maybe my problem can be solved by changing what events and figures get recorded as historical events and figures; is there any way to change that?

[Jay]

So maybe my problem can be solved by changing what events and figures get recorded as historical events and figures; is there any way to change that?

Nope, that's hardcoded.
Fortress members are recorded as historical figures so you can see what happens to them as the world continues on/view history of what happened to them. Tamed animals should only be included if they get named by some means (becoming a pet, usually), to my knowledge, though.

The real problem you're facing isn't that those are historical events, it's that the other things aren't.
Dwarves don't care about some random creeping eyes. They would care about a dragon, though.
Get a siege or two and you'll start getting plenty of images of dwarves fighting with goblins.