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11 July 1880 France Paris Commune France grants a full amnesty to the Communards
23 May 1880 France Paris Commune Supporters hold the first commemoration at the Communards’ Wall
3 May 1872 France Paris Commune The first convoy of Commune deportees leaves France
28 November 1871 France Paris Commune Rossel, Ferré and Bourgeois are executed at Satory
29 May 1871 France Paris Commune Fort Vincennes surrenders after the fall of the Commune
28 May 1871 France Paris Commune Eugène Varlin is captured and killed
28 May 1871 France Paris Commune The last major Commune resistance is defeated
27 May 1871 France Paris Commune Fighting reaches Père-Lachaise Cemetery
26 May 1871 France Paris Commune Jean-Baptiste Millière is summarily executed
26 May 1871 France Paris Commune Hostages are killed in the Rue Haxo
25 May 1871 France Paris Commune Charles Delescluze is killed at a barricade
25 May 1871 France Paris Commune Communards defend the Butte-aux-Cailles
24 May 1871 France Paris Commune The Hôtel de Ville burns during the fighting
24 May 1871 France Paris Commune Archbishop Darboy and other hostages are executed
23 May 1871 France Paris Commune Montmartre falls to the Versailles Army
22 May 1871 France Paris Commune Barricades spread as Versailles forces advance
21 May 1871 France Paris Commune Versailles troops enter Paris
19 May 1871 France Paris Commune The Commune orders the secularization of education
17 May 1871 France Paris Commune An explosion destroys the Avenue Rapp ammunition factory
16 May 1871 France Paris Commune The Vendôme Column is pulled down
15 May 1871 France Paris Commune A minority withdraws from the Commune’s council
15 May 1871 France Paris Commune The Commune appeals to the major cities of France
10 May 1871 France Paris Commune France and Germany sign the Treaty of Frankfurt
10 May 1871 France Paris Commune Rossel resigns as delegate for war
9 May 1871 France Paris Commune Versailles troops capture Fort Issy
7 May 1871 France Paris Commune The Commune authorizes free recovery of low-value pawned goods
1 May 1871 France Paris Commune The Commune creates a Committee of Public Safety
30 April 1871 France Paris Commune Cluseret resigns as delegate for war
28 April 1871 France Paris Commune A commission is formed for secular and vocational education
28 April 1871 France Paris Commune The Commune schedules the end of night work in bakeries
28 April 1871 France Paris Commune The Commune appeals to rural France
27 April 1871 France Paris Commune The Commune prohibits workplace fines and wage deductions
24 April 1871 France Paris Commune The Commune requisitions vacant housing
19 April 1871 France Paris Commune The Commune adopts the Declaration to the French People
17 April 1871 France Paris Commune The Commune extends the moratorium on commercial bills
16 April 1871 France Paris Commune Paris holds supplementary Commune elections
16 April 1871 France Paris Commune The Commune orders workers to organize abandoned workshops
12 April 1871 France Paris Commune Courbet is authorized to reopen the city’s museums
12 April 1871 France Paris Commune The Commune suspends debt collection proceedings
11 April 1871 France Paris Commune Women organize the Union for the Defence of Paris
6 April 1871 France Paris Commune The Commune adopts the Decree on Hostages
6 April 1871 France Paris Commune MacMahon takes command of the Versailles Army
6 April 1871 France Paris Commune Dąbrowski becomes commander of the defence of Paris
3 April 1871 France Paris Commune Communard forces launch an unsuccessful offensive
3 April 1871 France Paris Commune The Commune decrees the separation of church and state
2 April 1871 France Paris Commune Versailles forces attack at Courbevoie
29 March 1871 France Paris Commune The Commune cancels three quarters of unpaid rent
29 March 1871 France Paris Commune The Commune abolishes conscription and the standing army
29 March 1871 France Paris Commune The Commune creates ten governing commissions
28 March 1871 France Paris Commune The Paris Commune is publicly proclaimed
27 March 1871 France Paris Commune The elected Commune takes office
26 March 1871 France Paris Commune Paris elects the Council of the Commune
22 March 1871 France Paris Commune A hostile demonstration confronts the National Guard
19 March 1871 France Paris Commune The Central Committee announces municipal elections
18 March 1871 France Paris Commune Generals Lecomte and Clément-Thomas are killed
18 March 1871 France Paris Commune Paris rises after the army attempts to seize the cannons
17 March 1871 France Paris Commune The government decides to seize the National Guard’s cannons