diff --git a/Doc/library/http.client.rst b/Doc/library/http.client.rst
index 56f4c0a0d772f4..e605f7b8b14172 100644
--- a/Doc/library/http.client.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/http.client.rst
@@ -368,6 +368,8 @@ HTTPConnection Objects
    this is called automatically when making a request if the client does not
    already have a connection.
 
+   .. audit-event:: http.client.connect self,host,port http.client.HTTPConnection.connect
+
 
 .. method:: HTTPConnection.close()
 
@@ -437,6 +439,8 @@ also send your request step by step, by using the four functions below.
    :meth:`endheaders` method has been called and before :meth:`getresponse` is
    called.
 
+   .. audit-event:: http.client.send self,data http.client.HTTPConnection.send
+
 
 .. _httpresponse-objects:
 
diff --git a/Lib/http/client.py b/Lib/http/client.py
index c526380dcabfc9..4b1f692844474f 100644
--- a/Lib/http/client.py
+++ b/Lib/http/client.py
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
 import io
 import re
 import socket
+import sys
 import collections.abc
 from urllib.parse import urlsplit
 
@@ -931,6 +932,7 @@ def _tunnel(self):
 
     def connect(self):
         """Connect to the host and port specified in __init__."""
+        sys.audit("http.client.connect", self, self.host, self.port)
         self.sock = self._create_connection(
             (self.host,self.port), self.timeout, self.source_address)
         self.sock.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_TCP, socket.TCP_NODELAY, 1)
@@ -978,8 +980,10 @@ def send(self, data):
                     break
                 if encode:
                     datablock = datablock.encode("iso-8859-1")
+                sys.audit("http.client.send", self, datablock)
                 self.sock.sendall(datablock)
             return
+        sys.audit("http.client.send", self, data)
         try:
             self.sock.sendall(data)
         except TypeError:
diff --git a/Lib/test/audit-tests.py b/Lib/test/audit-tests.py
index 8e66594e52429b..2addf9762eae49 100644
--- a/Lib/test/audit-tests.py
+++ b/Lib/test/audit-tests.py
@@ -341,6 +341,24 @@ def hook(event, args):
     gc.get_referents(y)
 
 
+def test_http_client():
+    import http.client
+
+    def hook(event, args):
+        if event.startswith("http.client."):
+            print(event, *args[1:])
+
+    sys.addaudithook(hook)
+
+    conn = http.client.HTTPConnection('www.python.org')
+    try:
+        conn.request('GET', '/')
+    except OSError:
+        print('http.client.send', '[cannot send]')
+    finally:
+        conn.close()
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     from test.support import suppress_msvcrt_asserts
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_audit.py b/Lib/test/test_audit.py
index 58180e147a49a3..456a5daceb9f10 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_audit.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_audit.py
@@ -130,6 +130,20 @@ def test_gc(self):
             ["gc.get_objects", "gc.get_referrers", "gc.get_referents"]
         )
 
+    def test_http(self):
+        import_helper.import_module("http.client")
+        returncode, events, stderr = self.run_python("test_http_client")
+        if returncode:
+            self.fail(stderr)
+
+        if support.verbose:
+            print(*events, sep='\n')
+        self.assertEqual(events[0][0], "http.client.connect")
+        self.assertEqual(events[0][2], "www.python.org 80")
+        self.assertEqual(events[1][0], "http.client.send")
+        if events[1][2] != '[cannot send]':
+            self.assertIn('HTTP', events[1][2])
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2020-07-04-22-14-46.bpo-37363.NDjHNw.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2020-07-04-22-14-46.bpo-37363.NDjHNw.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..539084836dc4e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2020-07-04-22-14-46.bpo-37363.NDjHNw.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add audit events to the :mod:`http.client` module.
\ No newline at end of file