diff --git a/tornado_eventsource/__init__.py b/tornado_eventsource/__init__.py
index 044347c..1777df5 100644
--- a/tornado_eventsource/__init__.py
+++ b/tornado_eventsource/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
-__version__ = '2.0.0rc2'
+__version__ = '2.0.0rc3'
diff --git a/tornado_eventsource/event_source_client.py b/tornado_eventsource/event_source_client.py
index 92127fe..914d443 100644
--- a/tornado_eventsource/event_source_client.py
+++ b/tornado_eventsource/event_source_client.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import logging
 import collections
 import re
+import datetime
 
 from tornado import simple_httpclient
 from tornado.ioloop import IOLoop
@@ -38,6 +39,9 @@ def __init__(self):
         self.data = None
         self.id = None
         self.retry = None
+        self.timestamp = int(
+            datetime.datetime.utcnow().timestamp() * 1000
+        )
 
     def __repr__(self):
         return "Event<%s,%s,%s>" % (str(self.id), str(self.name), str(self.data))