Wordpress Pagination for archive page

WP Loop with pagination

//Dont forget to set how many items you want on each page in "Settings > Reading > Blog pages show at most"
<?php 
	$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
        // WP_Query arguments
        $args = array (
        	'pagination' => true,
        	'paged' => $paged,
		'order' => 'ASC'
        );

        // The Query
        $query_events = new WP_Query( $args );

        // The Loop
            if ( $query_events->have_posts() ) {
                while ( $query_events->have_posts() ) {
                    $query_events->the_post();
        ?>
            //Do some stuff in the loop
        <?php 
                }
            } else {
                echo 'Nothing going on here boss';
            } ?>
            <div class="nav-previous alignleft"><?php next_posts_link( 'Later Events' ); ?></div>
            <div class="nav-next alignright"><?php previous_posts_link( 'Closer Events' ); ?></div>
            <?php // Restore original Post Data
            wp_reset_postdata(); 
        ?>