Fort Vincennes surrenders after the fall of the Commune

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.

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.

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.

Thousands gathered at the Mur des Fédérés in Père-Lachaise Cemetery to honour those killed during the Bloody Week. The event established a lasting tradition in the French labour and socialist...

Parliament approved a complete amnesty for people prosecuted for participation in the Commune, enabling surviving prisoners and exiles to return and re-enter public life.