diff --git a/api/server/server.go b/api/server/server.go
index 3f5cc27c0b..d88a1d0882 100644
--- a/api/server/server.go
+++ b/api/server/server.go
@@ -395,6 +395,7 @@ func (s *Server) getEvents(version version.Version, w http.ResponseWriter, r *ht
 		}
 		until = u
 	}
+
 	timer := time.NewTimer(0)
 	timer.Stop()
 	if until > 0 {
@@ -453,6 +454,9 @@ func (s *Server) getEvents(version version.Version, w http.ResponseWriter, r *ht
 	}
 
 	current, l := es.Subscribe()
+	if since == -1 {
+		current = nil
+	}
 	defer es.Evict(l)
 	for _, ev := range current {
 		if ev.Time < since {
diff --git a/docs/man/docker-events.1.md b/docs/man/docker-events.1.md
index 5e7f6e25fa..f854bbc1ad 100644
--- a/docs/man/docker-events.1.md
+++ b/docs/man/docker-events.1.md
@@ -76,7 +76,11 @@ relative to the current time on the client machine:
     2015-05-12T15:53:45.999999999Z07:00  7805c1d35632: (from redis:2.8) die
     2015-05-12T15:54:03.999999999Z07:00  7805c1d35632: (from redis:2.8) stop
 
+If you do not provide the --since option, the command returns only new and/or
+live events.
+
 # HISTORY
 April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot com)
 based on docker.com source material and internal work.
 June 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit <SvenDowideit@home.org.au>
+June 2015, updated by Brian Goff <cpuguy83@gmail.com>
diff --git a/docs/sources/reference/commandline/cli.md b/docs/sources/reference/commandline/cli.md
index e97738e5e6..3b98c6fcd9 100644
--- a/docs/sources/reference/commandline/cli.md
+++ b/docs/sources/reference/commandline/cli.md
@@ -1125,7 +1125,8 @@ and Docker images will report:
 
 The `--since` and `--until` parameters can be Unix timestamps, RFC3339
 dates or Go duration strings (e.g. `10m`, `1h30m`) computed relative to
-client machine’s time.
+client machine’s time. If you do not provide the --since option, the command
+returns only new and/or live events.
 
 #### Filtering
 
diff --git a/integration-cli/docker_cli_events_test.go b/integration-cli/docker_cli_events_test.go
index cba909a9ef..36a8436b94 100644
--- a/integration-cli/docker_cli_events_test.go
+++ b/integration-cli/docker_cli_events_test.go
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ func (s *DockerSuite) TestEventsCommit(c *check.C) {
 		c.Fatalf("Couldn't stop: %s\n%q", out, err)
 	}
 
-	cmd = exec.Command(dockerBinary, "events", "-f", "container="+cID, "--until="+strconv.Itoa(int(since)))
+	cmd = exec.Command(dockerBinary, "events", "--since=0", "-f", "container="+cID, "--until="+strconv.Itoa(int(since)))
 	out, _, err = runCommandWithOutput(cmd)
 	if err != nil {
 		c.Fatalf("Couldn't get events: %s\n%q", out, err)
@@ -628,7 +628,7 @@ func (s *DockerSuite) TestEventsCopy(c *check.C) {
 		c.Fatalf("Failed getting file:%q\n%q", out, err)
 	}
 
-	cmd = exec.Command(dockerBinary, "events", "-f", "container=cptest", "--until="+strconv.Itoa(int(since)))
+	cmd = exec.Command(dockerBinary, "events", "--since=0", "-f", "container=cptest", "--until="+strconv.Itoa(int(since)))
 	out, _, err = runCommandWithOutput(cmd)
 	if err != nil {
 		c.Fatalf("Couldn't get events: %s\n%q", out, err)
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ func (s *DockerSuite) TestEventsResize(c *check.C) {
 		c.Fatalf("Couldn't stop: %s\n%q", out, err)
 	}
 
-	cmd = exec.Command(dockerBinary, "events", "-f", "container="+cID, "--until="+strconv.Itoa(int(since)))
+	cmd = exec.Command(dockerBinary, "events", "--since=0", "-f", "container="+cID, "--until="+strconv.Itoa(int(since)))
 	out, _, err = runCommandWithOutput(cmd)
 	if err != nil {
 		c.Fatalf("Couldn't get events: %s\n%q", out, err)
@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ func (s *DockerSuite) TestEventsAttach(c *check.C) {
 		c.Fatalf("Couldn't stop: %s\n%q", out, err)
 	}
 
-	cmd = exec.Command(dockerBinary, "events", "-f", "container="+cID, "--until="+strconv.Itoa(int(since)))
+	cmd = exec.Command(dockerBinary, "events", "--since=0", "-f", "container="+cID, "--until="+strconv.Itoa(int(since)))
 	out, _, err = runCommandWithOutput(cmd)
 	if err != nil {
 		c.Fatalf("Couldn't get events: %s\n%q", out, err)
@@ -732,7 +732,7 @@ func (s *DockerSuite) TestEventsRename(c *check.C) {
 		c.Fatalf("Couldn't rename: %s\n%q", out, err)
 	}
 
-	cmd := exec.Command(dockerBinary, "events", "-f", "container=newName", "--until="+strconv.Itoa(int(since)))
+	cmd := exec.Command(dockerBinary, "events", "--since=0", "-f", "container=newName", "--until="+strconv.Itoa(int(since)))
 	out, _, err = runCommandWithOutput(cmd)
 	if err != nil {
 		c.Fatalf("Couldn't get events: %s\n%q", out, err)
@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ func (s *DockerSuite) TestEventsTop(c *check.C) {
 		c.Fatalf("Couldn't stop: %s\n%q", out, err)
 	}
 
-	cmd = exec.Command(dockerBinary, "events", "-f", "container="+cID, "--until="+strconv.Itoa(int(since)))
+	cmd = exec.Command(dockerBinary, "events", "--since=0", "-f", "container="+cID, "--until="+strconv.Itoa(int(since)))
 	out, _, err = runCommandWithOutput(cmd)
 	if err != nil {
 		c.Fatalf("Couldn't get events: %s\n%q", out, err)
@@ -776,3 +776,10 @@ func (s *DockerSuite) TestEventsTop(c *check.C) {
 		c.Fatalf("Missing 'top' log event\n%s", out)
 	}
 }
+
+// #13753
+func (s *DockerSuite) TestEventsDefaultEmpty(c *check.C) {
+	dockerCmd(c, "run", "-d", "busybox")
+	out, _ := dockerCmd(c, "events", fmt.Sprintf("--until=%d", daemonTime(c).Unix()))
+	c.Assert(strings.TrimSpace(out), check.Equals, "")
+}