Fighting reaches Père-Lachaise Cemetery

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.

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...

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

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.

A military firing squad executed Louis Rossel, Théophile Ferré and Sergeant Pierre Bourgeois after courts-martial connected with the Commune.

The first group sentenced to deportation departed for the penal colony of New Caledonia. Deportation separated thousands of prisoners from their families and extended the repression far beyond Paris.