Chronology of the Paris Commune

List of events during the 1871 revolutionary government

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This chronology of the Paris Commune lists major events that occurred during and surrounding the Paris Commune, a revolutionary government that controlled Paris between March and May 1871.

1871

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January 22: Uprising in Paris at the city hall ends with five dead
January 28: Armistice of Versailles signed, de facto French surrender to the Prussians
February 26: Treaty of Versailles ends the Franco-Prussian War
March 1: Germans parade through Paris; National Guard Central Committee protests
March 10: Assembly decides to move to Versailles, snubbing Paris
March 18: Failed attempt to seize Monmartre cannons begins the Paris Commune
March 22: Second Lyon Commune
March 26: Elections replace the National Guard Central Committee governance with that of the Commune Council
March 28: Proclamation of the Commune
March 30: First skirmish between Communards and Versaillais at Courbevoie
April 2: Versaillais return for Battle of Courbevoie, ending in Communard retreat
April 3:
- Battle of Rueil
- Battle of Meudon
April 10: Commune Council makes legitimate and illegitimate children equally eligible for National Guard pensions^[1]
April 11: Women's Union founded^[1]
April 16: Commune approves worker takeover of abandoned workshops
April 19: Commune program established in the Declaration to the French People^[1]
April 24: Unions invited to organize abandoned workshops^[2]
April 25 – May 9: Battle of Fort d'Issy
April 28:
- Committee of Public Safety discussions begin^[3]
- Commune bans baker night work^[3]
May 1:
- Commune's third phase begins as Commune forms Committee of Public Safety^[3]
- Louis Rossel replaces Gustave Paul Cluseret as Communard Delegate for War (defense minister)^[3]
May 7: Commune banned pawnshop sale of vital pawned professions; paid for some possessions to be returned to their owners^[4]
May 9: Louis Rossel steps down as Delegate for War^[3]
May 10: Louis Charles Delescluze becomes Delegate for War^[3]
May 15: Minority declaration of the Committee of Public Safety shows schism^[5]
May 16: Vendome Column destroyed^[3]
May 21: Commune Council's last session^[3]
May 22–28: Semaine sanglante (Bloody Week)^[3]
May 23: Jarosław Dąbrowski dies^[3]
May 24:
- Hostages executed^[3]
- Battle of Butte-aux-Cailles
May 25: Louis Charles Delescluze dies^[3]
May 28: Final barricades vanquished; Commune ends^[3]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c Gluckstein 2006, p. 235.
^ Gluckstein 2006, pp. 235–236.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Gluckstein 2006, p. 236.
^ Gluckstein 2006, pp. 236, 25.
^ Gluckstein 2006, p. 236, 159.

References

Abidor, Mitchell (2015). Voices of the Paris Commune. PM Press. p. 13–. ISBN 978-1-62963-182-0.
Bruhat, Jean; Dautry, Jean; Tersen, Emile (1970). "Chronologie". La Commune de 1871 (in French) (2nd ed.). Paris: Éditions sociales. pp. 386–390. OCLC 567909369.
Fermer, Douglas (2011). "Chronology". France at Bay, 1870–1871: The Struggle for Paris. Casemate Publishers. pp. 222–234. ISBN 978-1-84468-904-0.
Gluckstein, Donny (2006). "Chronology". The Paris Commune: A Revolutionary Democracy. Bookmarks. pp. 234–236. ISBN 978-1-905192-14-4.
Lefebvre, Henri (1965). "Tableau chronologique". La proclamation de la commune, 26 mars 1871. Trente journées qui ont fait la France (in French). Paris: Gallimard. pp. 453–460.