Chronology of the Paris Commune

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

 * 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
 * April 11: Women's Union founded
 * April 16: Commune approves worker takeover of abandoned workshops
 * April 19: Commune program established in the Declaration to the French People
 * April 24: Unions invited to organize abandoned workshops
 * April 25 – May 9: Battle of Fort d'Issy
 * April 28:
 * Committee of Public Safety discussions begin
 * Commune bans baker night work
 * May 1:
 * Commune's third phase begins as Commune forms Committee of Public Safety
 * Louis Rossel replaces Gustave Paul Cluseret as Communard Delegate for War (defense minister)
 * May 7: Commune banned pawnshop sale of vital pawned professions; paid for some possessions to be returned to their owners
 * May 9: Louis Rossel steps down as Delegate for War
 * May 10: Louis Charles Delescluze becomes Delegate for War
 * May 15: Minority declaration of the Committee of Public Safety shows schism
 * May 16: Vendome Column destroyed
 * May 21: Commune Council's last session
 * May 22–28: Semaine sanglante (Bloody Week)
 * May 23: Jarosław Dąbrowski dies
 * May 24:
 * Hostages executed
 * Battle of Butte-aux-Cailles
 * May 25: Louis Charles Delescluze dies
 * May 28: Final barricades vanquished; Commune ends