Hostages are killed in the Rue Haxo

Government troops captured Montmartre, the district where the uprising had begun. Jarosław Dąbrowski was mortally wounded during the fighting as the Commune lost much of northern and western Paris.

As government forces advanced, fires destroyed the Hôtel de Ville and other public buildings. Responsibility for individual fires and their military purpose became a major subject of political...

Communard officials executed Archbishop Georges Darboy and several other hostages in La Roquette prison while government forces carried out mass executions of captured Communards.

Several thousand Communards resisted a much larger government force around the Butte-aux-Cailles. Versailles troops eventually took the position and continued eastward.

Charles Delescluze, the Commune’s delegate for war, walked unarmed toward a barricade at the Place du Château-d’Eau and was killed by government fire.

Versailles troops arrested republican deputy and journalist Jean-Baptiste Millière and shot him on the steps of the Panthéon without trial.

Communards fought government troops among the tombs of Père-Lachaise. Captured defenders were later shot near the wall remembered as the Mur des Fédérés.

Government forces overcame the final organized barricades in eastern Paris. The defeat ended the Commune after seventy-two days, while arrests and summary executions continued.

Eugène Varlin, a labour organizer and member of the Commune, was recognized, beaten and shot at Montmartre without trial.

The remaining Communard garrison at Fort Vincennes surrendered. Government forces executed several officers, marking the end of the last fortified position held in the name of the Commune.