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Full Idea
Events are not basic items in the universe; they should not be included in any fundamental ontology...all the truths about them are entailed by and explained and made true by truths that do not involve the event concept.
Gist of Idea
Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology
Source
Jonathan Bennett (Events and Their Names [1988], p.12), quoted by Peter Simons - Events 3.1
Book Ref
'The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics', ed/tr. Loux,M /Zimmerman,D [OUP 2005], p.369
A Reaction
Given the variable time spans of events, their ability to coincide, their ability to contain no motion, their blatantly conventional component, and their recalcitrance to individuation, I say Bennett is right.