diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 9a287d9ee2d99b04edf66badcd3e000344a64f51..97b7197be323212a29615efbf14dc1e416fab6f9 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -9,10 +9,6 @@
 	path = third_party/protobuf
 	url = https://github.com/google/protobuf.git
 	branch = v3.0.0-alpha-1
-[submodule "third_party/libevent"]
-	path = third_party/libevent
-	url = https://github.com/libevent/libevent.git
-	branch = patches-2.0
 [submodule "third_party/gflags"]
 	path = third_party/gflags
 	url = https://code.google.com/p/gflags
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 20e27c1b805499d880d7805631ea72f9f5884769..a9b0b58aa6e0db3888dd00985c4b0ca4b9c0907a 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@ Note that the Makefile makes it much easier for you to compile from sources
 if you were to clone recursively our git repository.
 
 
-grpc core currently depends on zlib and OpenSSL 1.0.2beta3, and also requires
-libevent2 for the Linux port.
+grpc core currently depends on zlib and OpenSSL 1.0.2beta3.
 
 grpc++'s tests depends on protobuf 3.0.0, gtests and gflags.
 
@@ -46,7 +45,7 @@ and let the Makefile build them itself.
 You may also install the dependencies yourself, from the sources, or from
 your distribution's package manager.
 
-The development packages needed for grpc are libevent2 under Linux, and zlib.
+The only development package needed for grpc is zlib.
 The development packages needed for grpc++'s tests are gtests, and gflags.
 
 To the best of our knowledge, no distribution has an OpenSSL package that
diff --git a/third_party/libevent b/third_party/libevent
deleted file mode 160000
index f7d92c63928a1460f3d99b9bc418bd3b686a0dca..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/third_party/libevent
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit f7d92c63928a1460f3d99b9bc418bd3b686a0dca