diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f7b8f972a27..56421ef500c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 - Upgrade go-f3 to 0.7.1 to resolve Tipset not found errors when trying to establish instance start time ([filecoin-project/lotus#12651](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/12651)).
 - Try harder in the F3 participation loop to participate using the same lotus node ([filecoin-project/lotus#12664](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/12664)).
 - The mining loop will now correctly "stick" to the same upstream lotus node for all operations pertaining to mining a single block ([filecoin-project/lotus#12665](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/12665)).
+- Make the ordering of event output for `eth_` APIs and `GetActorEventsRaw` consistent, sorting ascending on: epoch, message index, event index and original event entry order. ([filecoin-project/lotus#12623](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/12623))
 
 ## Deps
 
diff --git a/chain/index/events.go b/chain/index/events.go
index 0a1836f7b96..a1eb84a4280 100644
--- a/chain/index/events.go
+++ b/chain/index/events.go
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"math"
-	"sort"
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/ipfs/go-cid"
@@ -418,10 +417,6 @@ func (si *SqliteIndexer) GetEventsForFilter(ctx context.Context, f *EventFilter)
 			return nil, nil
 		}
 
-		// collected event list is in inverted order since we selected only the most recent events
-		// sort it into height order
-		sort.Slice(ces, func(i, j int) bool { return ces[i].Height < ces[j].Height })
-
 		return ces, nil
 	}
 
@@ -597,6 +592,6 @@ func makePrefillFilterQuery(f *EventFilter) ([]any, string, error) {
 	}
 
 	// retain insertion order of event_entry rows
-	s += " ORDER BY tm.height DESC, ee._rowid_ ASC"
+	s += " ORDER BY tm.height ASC, tm.message_index ASC, e.event_index ASC, ee._rowid_ ASC"
 	return values, s, nil
 }