diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index bef5d050..49e584f2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Changes in current version:
  o move EV_PERSIST handling out of the event backends
  o small improvements to evhttp documentation
  o always generate Date and Content-Length headers for HTTP/1.1 replies
-
+ o set the correct event base for HTTP close events
 
 Changes in 1.4.0:
  o allow \r or \n individually to separate HTTP headers instead of the standard "\r\n"; from Charles Kerr.
diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index 38c0379d..77bfb8f1 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ evhttp_connection_start_detectclose(struct evhttp_connection *evcon)
 		event_del(&evcon->close_ev);
 	event_set(&evcon->close_ev, evcon->fd, EV_READ,
 	    evhttp_detect_close_cb, evcon);
-	EVHTTP_BASE_SET(evcon, &evcon->ev);
+	EVHTTP_BASE_SET(evcon, &evcon->close_ev);
 	event_add(&evcon->close_ev, NULL);
 }