Generals Lecomte and Clément-Thomas are killed

A council of ministers led by Adolphe Thiers ordered the army to remove cannons held by the National Guard in working-class districts and to arrest leading revolutionaries. The decision prepared the...

Government troops tried to remove National Guard artillery from Montmartre and Belleville. Residents and guards resisted, many soldiers fraternized with the crowd, and the operation collapsed. The...

With the national government established at Versailles, the Central Committee of the National Guard announced elections for a new communal government and presented its rule as temporary.

Supporters of the Versailles government marched against the Central Committee. A confrontation near the Place Vendôme ended in gunfire and casualties, deepening the division between revolutionary...

Parisian voters elected representatives to a municipal council. The results gave influence to Jacobins, Blanquists, Internationalists, socialists and other republican revolutionaries, although...

The newly elected Council of the Commune began its work. The Central Committee of the National Guard prepared to transfer governmental authority to the elected council.

Before a large crowd at the Hôtel de Ville, the elected Commune was formally proclaimed. The red flag became the symbol of the new revolutionary municipal government.