When you make a request to your live Laravel site, you will send the request to www.yourdomain.com/events. You do not need to specify the path of the file of the routes.php file, Laravel does that for you. The docs have some explanation of the request lifecycle in Laravel if you want to know more. When you configure your .htaccess file (for Apache) or your configuration file for nginx, it will point to the index.php file that Laravel uses for bootstrapping your application, which will eventually wind referring to your routes.php file.
