Chronology of the Commune of Paris (1871)

the Commune of Paris lasts from March 18th to May 28th, 1871

September 1870

September 7th: the Gouvernement of National defense names the mayors of districts.
September 13rd: creation of the republican Central committee of the Twenty districts.
September 19th: beginning of the head office of Paris by the Germans.

October

October 8th: Failure of the demonstration of the republican Central committee of the Twenty districts in order to obtain municipal elections in Paris.
October 31st: Failure of the demonstration protesting against the judged policy capitularde of the Government of National defense.

November

November 3rd: the policy of the Gouvernement of National defense is approved by plebiscite.
5 November 8th: course of the municipal elections in Paris.

January 1871

January 7th: Publication of the Red Poster, which asks for the creation of a Commune Paris.
January 19th: In Buzenval (close to Rueil) failure strapping of the offensive against the Germans, that the general Trochu, military governor of Paris and president of the provisional government, imagined for " calmer" Parisian more warmongers.
January 22nd: insurrectionary demonstration place of the Town hall. The soldiers of the general Vinoy draw and make about thirty dead among the demonstrators.
January 26th: the Germans stop the bombardment of Paris.
January 28th: official announcement of the Franco-German armistice.

February

February 8th: with the elections for the National Assembly 4 revolutionary socialist deputies are elected in Paris (on 43 on the whole).
February 19th: formation of the Government Thiers by the National Assembly at this meeting in Bordeaux.
February 24th: 2.000 delegated National guard meet in the Vauxhall. Demonstrations places Bastille.
February 26th: the guns of the National guard are gathered with Belleville and Montmartre.

March

March: the Germans ravel on the Fields-Elysées.
March 3rd: creation of a provisional Executive committee of the National guard.
March 6th: Thiers names the general Aurelle de Paladines, commander-in-chief of the National guard.
March 8th: failure of the governmental attempt to remove the guns of the place Vendôme
March 10th: The National Assembly decides to be transferred from Bordeaux to Versailles. She votes the end of the moratorium of the debts, the commercial drafts and the rents. By the Pact of Bordeaux, the deputies do not hold for asset the maintenance of the Republic.
March 11th: the general Vinoy, commander-in-chief of the army of Paris, suspends 6 republican newspapers. Auguste Blanqui and Gustave Flourens is condemned to death in absentia for their participation in the insurrectionary attempt of October 31st in Paris.
March 15th: Creation of the Central committee of the National guard.
March 16th: Thiers settles in Paris with an aim of " pacifier" the capital. He names the Valentine general with the Police headquarter.
March 17th: Blanqui is stopped in the Batch.
March 18th: Thiers orders the removal of the guns of the National guard. The Parisian ones of the districts Is and Centers raise. Execution of the generals Lecomte and Thomas by their soldiers. Thiers leaves Paris for Versailles.
March 19th: the Central committee of the National guard announces the behavior of elections to create the Council of the Commune.

The government entrusts the administration of Paris to the mayors and to deputies of the capital.

20 March 21st: in Versailles the delegation of the mayors for a conciliation is made hoot by the Parliament. Jules Favre, vice-president of the Council of Ministers insults Paris.
March 21st: the troops of Versailles occupy the Mount-Valérien. Manifestation of the Friendly of the Order boulevard of the Italians, Carries Saint-Denis, street Vivienne and place of the Stock Exchange.
March 22nd: opera in the Vendôme place, failure strapping of the second manifestation of the Friendly of the Order. Part of the population of the fashionable districts (Western) leaves Paris.
March 23rd: creation of a Commune in Marseilles.
March 24th: creation of a Commune with Narbonne, Saint-Etienne and Toulouse.
March 26th: Creation of the Commune in Creusot. Elections for the the Council of the Commune of Paris.
March 28th: installation of the the Council of the Commune of Paris to the Town hall. Proclamation of the Common of Paris
March 29th: the Commune issues that the rents which had since the moratorium of August 13rd, 1870, are cancelled; the sale of the objects deposited with the Mont-de-Piété is suspended. The military conscription and the professional army are abolished.

April

April 2nd: the Commune issues the separation of the Church and the State, the budget of the worships is removed. The salary civils servant will not be able to exceed 6.000 francs annual any more. The Commune issues the committal for trial of the government of Thiers. In Courbevoie the troops of Versailles attack the Communards who fold up themselves on Neuilly.

April 3rd: the Communards launch an attack for Versailles. Gustave Flourens is assassinated with Rueil-Malmaison by a gendarme.
April 4th: the offensive of the Communards fails Châtillon, approximately 1.500 men are taken along prisoners to Versailles. End of the Common of Marseilles. Gustave Paul Cluseret is named delegated to the War.
April 5th: the Commune suspends the Newspaper of DEBATEs and Freedom newspapers pro-of Versailles
April 6th: the Common one votes the decree of the hostages. Arrest of the people accessory to the Thiers government. The Commune issues the disarmament of the national Guards anti-communards.
April 8th: the Commune issues the payment of a pension to all the casualties, it will be extended to the widows, the orphans of the national Guards killed with the combat (April 10th)
April 9th: the Council of the Commune reaffirms the obligation of the preliminary declaration for the press.
April 11th: the Commune decides the creation of a council of war.
April 12th: the Commune decides to suspend the legal proceedings concerning the expiries (rents, commercial drafts…). The archbishop of Paris, Georges Darboy, hostage of the Commune, writing with Thiers to protest against the summary executions captive Communards and to propose his exchange against Auguste Blanqui captive in Morlaix on order of Thiers. The Commune prohibited the Universal Monitor , newspaper considered as pro-of Versailles.
April 13rd: the Commune decides the demolition of the Colonne Vendôme
April 14th: the Commune prohibits the arbitrary arrests. Beginning of the bombardment of Asnières, where are stationed of the troops of the Commune, by the troops of Versailles (it will last until April 17th)
April 16th: the Common one makes count the abandoned workshops and supports the creation of working co-operatives. The Commune decides a three years deadline for the refunding of the expiries and the debts. Elections complementary to the Council of the Commune.
April 18th: the Commune issues that any arrests must be the official report object
April 19th: the Common one makes a Statement with the French people where it makes a statement on its program.

April 20th: the Commune prohibits the night-work in the bakers (applicable 27)
April 21st: the Francs-maçons try a conciliation between the commune and the Thiers government.
April 22nd: the Commune organizes municipal butcheries
April 23rd: Thiers organizes the blockade of the supply of Paris
April 25th: with Beautiful-Spine close to Villejuif, an officer of hunter with horse of the troops of Versailles personally carries out without judgments four soldiers captive communards. The Commune decides the requisition of the vacant housings to place there the victims of the bombardments made by the troops of Versailles. The Commune decides to reorganize the Weights and measures
April 28th: the Commune removes the system of the fines by which the owners penalized their employees.

May

: creation, by the Commune of the Committee of Public Hello (kind of government). Louis Rossel is named Délégué to the War after the revocation of Cluzeret.
May 2nd: the Commune abolishes the political and professional oath for the civils servant
May 4th: the Commune prohibits the office plurality of the treatments.
May 5th: the Commune removes seven Parisian newspapers considered as pro-of Versailles and makes destroy the expiatory vault commemorating the death of Louis XVI
May 6th: Thiers refuses the attempt at conciliation undertaken by the League of republican Union of the Rights of Paris. Decree of the Commune authorizing the free release of the objects deposited with the Pawnshop for less than 6 francs
May 8th: Thiers address an ultimatum to Parisian the
May 9th: the fort of Issy falls to the hands from the troops of Versailles
May 10th: Charles Delescluze is named Délégué to the War to replace Rossel outgoing. Franco-German peace is signed with Frankfurt. The Parisian goods of Thiers are seized.
May 11th: decree of the Commune ordering the demolition of the Parisian house of Thiers. The Commune removes 5 newspapers.
May 13rd: The troops of Versailles occupy the fort of Vanves.
May 14th: Thiers refuses the proposal to exchange the 74 hostages of the Commune against only the Auguste Blanqui imprisoned in Morlaix.
May 15th: open crisis enters the majority and the minority of the Council of the Commune. The minority ones publish a proclamation.
May 16th: demolition of the Column Vendôme
May 17th: a sabotage causes the explosion of the cartridge factory of the avenue rep. the Commune issues the equality of the legitimate or natural children, the wives and the concubines for the perception of the pensions
May 18th: the National Assembly, sitting at Versailles votes the ratification of the Traité of Frankfurt. The Committee of public Hello of the Commune removes ten newspapers.
May 19th: the Commune issues that the civils servant or the suppliers of the Commune who will be accused of misappropriation will be translated before a martial Court where they will risk the capital punishment. Arrest of Dominican of the convent of Arcueil, suspected of helping the troops of Versailles. The republican Central committee of the Twenty districts disappears.
May 21st: thanks to a treason, the troops of Versailles enter Paris by the Door of Saint-Cloud. It is the beginning of the bloody Semaine.
May 22nd: the troops of Versailles control the Fields-Elysées, the Saint-Lazare districts and Montparnasse
May 23rd: the troops of Versailles occupy Montmartre. Beginnings of the large fires which will devastate certain Parisian monuments (Palais of Tileries).
May 24th: The of Versailles ones control the Latin Quarter and multiply the summary executions. The Town hall and the police headquarter are burnt. Communards make carry out six hostages of which the archbishop Georges Darboy.
May 25th: five Dominican of Arcueil and nine employees of the convent are killed in an attempt at escape. Vigorous combat Places Water Tower (current place of the Republic). Died of Charles Delescluze.
May 26th: the Saint-Anthony Suburb is controlled by the of Versailles ones. Street Haxo, crowd massacres 11 monks, 35 gendarmes and four informers of the Second Empire.
May 27th: hard combat in Belleville, with the Cemetery of the Father-Lachaise and the Hillock-Chaumont.
May 28th: at the beginning of fine apèrs-midday of the combat (street Biff) Died of Eugene Varlin.
May 29th: the fort of Vincennes capitulates. End of the Commune of Paris. Lawsuits, executions and deportations of prisoners communards will start.

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