📅 26 March 1871
Parisian voters elected representatives to a municipal council. The results gave influence to Jacobins, Blanquists, Internationalists, socialists and other republican revolutionaries, although...
📅 29 March 1871
The Council organized its administration through commissions responsible for war, finance, justice, security, labour, public services, education, food, external relations and executive coordination.
📅 15 May 1871
Members opposing the Committee of Public Safety announced that they would withdraw from council meetings and work in their districts. They objected to concentrating power in an executive committee.
📅 26 May 1871
A crowd of guards and civilians killed clergy, gendarmes and other prisoners in the Rue Haxo amid the collapse of Commune authority. Commune members including Eugène Varlin attempted unsuccessfully to...
📅 28 May 1871
Eugène Varlin, a labour organizer and member of the Commune, was recognized, beaten and shot at Montmartre without trial.
