diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-collector/src/transform.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-collector/src/transform.ts
index 7080713ff77..ee627621591 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-collector/src/transform.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-collector/src/transform.ts
@@ -19,12 +19,11 @@ import {
   Link,
   SpanKind,
   SpanStatus,
-  TimedEvent,
   TraceState,
 } from '@opentelemetry/api';
 import * as core from '@opentelemetry/core';
 import { Resource } from '@opentelemetry/resources';
-import { ReadableSpan } from '@opentelemetry/tracing';
+import { ReadableSpan, TimedEvent } from '@opentelemetry/tracing';
 import { CollectorExporterBase } from './CollectorExporterBase';
 import {
   COLLECTOR_SPAN_KIND_MAPPING,
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/src/transform.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/src/transform.ts
index 032227716f9..4f8e3145c69 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/src/transform.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin/src/transform.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
  */
 
 import * as api from '@opentelemetry/api';
-import { ReadableSpan } from '@opentelemetry/tracing';
+import { ReadableSpan, TimedEvent } from '@opentelemetry/tracing';
 import { hrTimeToMicroseconds } from '@opentelemetry/core';
 import * as zipkinTypes from './types';
 import { Resource } from '@opentelemetry/resources';
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ export function _toZipkinTags(
  * Converts OpenTelemetry Events to Zipkin Annotations format.
  */
 export function _toZipkinAnnotations(
-  events: api.TimedEvent[]
+  events: TimedEvent[]
 ): zipkinTypes.Annotation[] {
   return events.map(event => ({
     timestamp: hrTimeToMicroseconds(event.time),
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/src/Span.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/src/Span.ts
index bfaf77b20b9..79ab92544a4 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/src/Span.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/src/Span.ts
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import {
 import { Resource } from '@opentelemetry/resources';
 import { SemanticAttributes } from '@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions';
 import { ReadableSpan } from './export/ReadableSpan';
+import { TimedEvent } from './TimedEvent';
 import { Tracer } from './Tracer';
 import { SpanProcessor } from './SpanProcessor';
 import { TraceParams } from './types';
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ export class Span implements api.Span, ReadableSpan {
   readonly parentSpanId?: string;
   readonly attributes: api.SpanAttributes = {};
   readonly links: api.Link[] = [];
-  readonly events: api.TimedEvent[] = [];
+  readonly events: TimedEvent[] = [];
   readonly startTime: api.HrTime;
   readonly resource: Resource;
   readonly instrumentationLibrary: InstrumentationLibrary;
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/src/TimedEvent.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/src/TimedEvent.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..93cb9b47f3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/src/TimedEvent.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import { HrTime, SpanAttributes } from '@opentelemetry/api';
+
+/**
+ * Represents a timed event.
+ * A timed event is an event with a timestamp.
+ */
+export interface TimedEvent {
+  time: HrTime;
+  /** The name of the event. */
+  name: string;
+  /** The attributes of the event. */
+  attributes?: SpanAttributes;
+}
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/src/export/ReadableSpan.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/src/export/ReadableSpan.ts
index 9813965b0c8..381de674fff 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/src/export/ReadableSpan.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/src/export/ReadableSpan.ts
@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ import {
   HrTime,
   Link,
   SpanContext,
-  TimedEvent,
 } from '@opentelemetry/api';
 import { Resource } from '@opentelemetry/resources';
 import { InstrumentationLibrary } from '@opentelemetry/core';
+import { TimedEvent } from '../TimedEvent';
 
 export interface ReadableSpan {
   readonly name: string;
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/src/index.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/src/index.ts
index 720241a3107..188b5105cec 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-tracing/src/index.ts
@@ -24,4 +24,5 @@ export * from './export/SimpleSpanProcessor';
 export * from './export/SpanExporter';
 export * from './Span';
 export * from './SpanProcessor';
+export * from './TimedEvent';
 export * from './types';