diff --git a/packages/grafana-ui/src/types/data.ts b/packages/grafana-ui/src/types/data.ts
index 69d5261ba3c..fcbf95f9f4a 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-ui/src/types/data.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-ui/src/types/data.ts
@@ -76,3 +76,17 @@ export interface TableData {
   rows: any[][];
   tags?: Tags;
 }
+
+export interface AnnotationEvent {
+  annotation?: any;
+  dashboardId?: number;
+  panelId?: number;
+  userId?: number;
+  time?: number;
+  timeEnd?: number;
+  isRegion?: boolean;
+  title?: string;
+  text?: string;
+  type?: string;
+  tags?: string;
+}
diff --git a/public/app/features/annotations/all.ts b/public/app/features/annotations/all.ts
index d0ef6abf9ed..ed2c65062be 100644
--- a/public/app/features/annotations/all.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/annotations/all.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 import { AnnotationsSrv } from './annotations_srv';
 import { eventEditor } from './event_editor';
 import { EventManager } from './event_manager';
-import { AnnotationEvent } from './event';
 import { annotationTooltipDirective } from './annotation_tooltip';
-
-export { AnnotationsSrv, eventEditor, EventManager, AnnotationEvent, annotationTooltipDirective };
+export { AnnotationsSrv, eventEditor, EventManager, annotationTooltipDirective };
diff --git a/public/app/features/annotations/event.ts b/public/app/features/annotations/event.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index de86b72c7c0..00000000000
--- a/public/app/features/annotations/event.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-export class AnnotationEvent {
-  dashboardId: number;
-  panelId: number;
-  userId: number;
-  time: any;
-  timeEnd: any;
-  isRegion: boolean;
-  text: string;
-  type: string;
-  tags: string;
-}
diff --git a/public/app/features/annotations/event_editor.ts b/public/app/features/annotations/event_editor.ts
index a88cc44a251..a6970790bb3 100644
--- a/public/app/features/annotations/event_editor.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/annotations/event_editor.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import _ from 'lodash';
 import moment from 'moment';
 import { coreModule } from 'app/core/core';
 import { MetricsPanelCtrl } from 'app/plugins/sdk';
-import { AnnotationEvent } from './event';
+import { AnnotationEvent } from '@grafana/ui';
 
 export class EventEditorCtrl {
   panelCtrl: MetricsPanelCtrl;
diff --git a/public/app/features/annotations/event_manager.ts b/public/app/features/annotations/event_manager.ts
index 6966d3cdc82..fbd7897ba92 100644
--- a/public/app/features/annotations/event_manager.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/annotations/event_manager.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import _ from 'lodash';
-import moment from 'moment';
 import tinycolor from 'tinycolor2';
 import {
   OK_COLOR,
@@ -11,7 +10,7 @@ import {
 } from '@grafana/ui';
 
 import { MetricsPanelCtrl } from 'app/plugins/sdk';
-import { AnnotationEvent } from './event';
+import { AnnotationEvent } from '@grafana/ui';
 
 export class EventManager {
   event: AnnotationEvent;
@@ -31,16 +30,17 @@ export class EventManager {
 
   updateTime(range) {
     if (!this.event) {
-      this.event = new AnnotationEvent();
+      this.event = {};
       this.event.dashboardId = this.panelCtrl.dashboard.id;
       this.event.panelId = this.panelCtrl.panel.id;
     }
 
     // update time
-    this.event.time = moment(range.from);
+    this.event.time = range.from;
     this.event.isRegion = false;
+
     if (range.to) {
-      this.event.timeEnd = moment(range.to);
+      this.event.timeEnd = range.to;
       this.event.isRegion = true;
     }
 
@@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ export class EventManager {
         annotations = [
           {
             isRegion: true,
-            min: this.event.time.valueOf(),
-            timeEnd: this.event.timeEnd.valueOf(),
+            min: this.event.time,
+            timeEnd: this.event.timeEnd,
             text: this.event.text,
             eventType: '$__editing',
             editModel: this.event,
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ export class EventManager {
       } else {
         annotations = [
           {
-            min: this.event.time.valueOf(),
+            min: this.event.time,
             text: this.event.text,
             editModel: this.event,
             eventType: '$__editing',
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/datasource.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/datasource.ts
index ecdfcf30612..432a7fd6717 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/datasource.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/datasource.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import { expandRecordingRules } from './language_utils';
 
 // Types
 import { PromQuery } from './types';
-import { DataQueryOptions, DataSourceApi } from '@grafana/ui/src/types';
+import { DataQueryOptions, DataSourceApi, AnnotationEvent } from '@grafana/ui/src/types';
 import { ExploreUrlState } from 'app/types/explore';
 
 export class PrometheusDatasource implements DataSourceApi<PromQuery> {
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ export class PrometheusDatasource implements DataSourceApi<PromQuery> {
         for (const value of series.values) {
           const valueIsTrue = value[1] === '1'; // e.g. ALERTS
           if (valueIsTrue || annotation.useValueForTime) {
-            const event: any = {
+            const event: AnnotationEvent = {
               annotation: annotation,
               title: self.resultTransformer.renderTemplate(titleFormat, series.metric),
               tags: tags,