Chronology of the Paris Commune

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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]

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