The first convoy of Commune deportees leaves France

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.

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

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.