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Storming of the Bastille in Paris
Prise de la Bastille -
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French Revolution
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Haitian Revolution
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First French Empire
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Bourbon Restoration in France
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Revolution of 1830 in France
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Revolution of 1848 in France
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French Second Empire
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Napoleon III declares war on Prussia
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Battle of Sedan
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Napoleon III surrenders at Sedan
Thomas Jones Barker, Surrender of Napoleon III at Sedan, 1870, Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery -
France's Third Republic proclaimed; Govt of National Defense
Le gouvernement provisoire d'Adolphe Thiers 1870-1871. Photo (montage) d'Ernest-Eugène Appert, noms manuscrits. -
Siege of Paris begins
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Parisian workers following Louis Blanqui demonstrate, call for the government's overthrow & for an independent municipal government: a Commune
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Adolphe Thiers becomes Chief Executive
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Preliminary Treaty of Versailles signed by Adolphe Thiers & Otto von Bismarck
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Battle of Bordj Bou Arreridjj & beginning of the Mokrani Revolt in Algeria led by Mohamed Amokrane/Cheik Mokrani
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Thiers sends troops to disarm the capital; the people of Paris resist
Exposition La Commune de Paris à l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris (18 mars - 28 mai 2011) - Arrivée des canons repris à l'armée devant la mairie du 18 e arrondissement, le 18 mars 1871 - Gravure de J. Gaildrau pour L'Illustration du 25 mars 1871. -
The Central Committee (est. 18 March) lifts the state of siege
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French National Assembly meets at opera house in Versailles
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Shooting in the rue de la Paix on 22 March
A group calling itself the "Friends of Order" demonstrates vs. the Central Committee & the ensuing confrontation w/the National Guard leads to the death of 12-30 people near Place Vendôme. -
Second Commune of Lyon begins
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The Commune of Narbonne begins
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Voters in Paris elect a Commune Council
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The Commune is proclaimed!
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The Commune repeals legislation (passed by the authority based in Versailles) calling for the payment of rent arrears & debts that had been suspended during the siege.
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The Commune declares that the highest salary paid to any one of its members will be 6000 francs
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Second "Siege of Paris" begins as Versailles moves on the capital
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The Commune separates Church & State
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Commune de Marseille declared in solidarity with Paris
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The Commune passes the "Decree on Hostages"
The decree authorizes the arrest of any person thought to be loyal to the French government in Versailles, those arrested were to be held as "hostages of the people of Paris". -
Members of the 137th battalion of the Commune's National Guard publicly burn the guillotine in the Place Voltaire (now Place Léon Blum) in the 11th arrondissement of Paris
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Council of the Order of Freemasons issues a "Manifesto" addressed to the government in Versailles & to the Commune
"STOP THE SPILLING OF PRECIOUS BLOOD THAT FLOWS ON BOTH SIDES, and lay down the basis for a definitive peace that will be THE DAWN OF A NEW FUTURE." -
"Union des Femmes" founded by Elisabeth Dmitrieff & Nathalie Lemel
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Gustave Courbet authorized to reestablish museums and open galleries in Paris
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The Commission des Barricades outlines the appropriate form for a barricade
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Manifesto of the Federation of Aritsts
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The Commune takes up abandoned workshops to address unemployment & production
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The Commune reopens parks, gardens & other public spaces
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Déclaration au peuple français
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The Commune abolishes night baking
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Landing outside at the Hôtel de Ville
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Thiers refuses to exchange Louis-Auguste Blanqui for the Archbishop Darboy held by the Commune.
The Archbishop is executed in May. -
The Bibliothèque Nationale's reading rooms, closed since September 1870, are reopened in Paris
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Governor General of "French Algeria" declares a "state of siege"
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Mass rally of Freemasons in Paris hoping to reconcile the Commune and Versailles
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The Commune orders closing of pawn shops
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The Commune orders the destruction of the Chapel Expiatoire built after the execution of Louis XVI
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Manifesto of the Central Committee of L'UNION DES FEMMES POUR LA DÉFENSE DE PARIS ET LES SOINS AUX BLESSÉS
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The Commune adopts the French Revolutionary Calendar
For 18 days from May 6-23, 1871 (16 Floréal–3 Prairial Year 79), the Commune adopts the French Republican Calendar used from 1793-1805. -
The Versaillais take the Fort d'Issy
One of the forts outside the main wall of Paris. The struggle had begun on April 25th. Hundreds died over the course of the battle and the fort itself is left in ruins. -
France (under Thiers) & Germany sign the Treaty of Frankfurt
The treaty includes: the German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine, continued occupation in some areas of France & terms for the payment of war reparations. -
The Commune's Committee of Public Safety decides to destroy the Paris home of Adolphe Thiers
The residence is located in the Place Saint-Georges in the 9th arrondissement. -
The Appeal to Working Women
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The Palais de Justice on fire
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La Semaine Sanglante / Bloody Week
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Communards set fire to the Palais des Tuileries
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The Hôtel de Ville goes up in flames
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The Commune executes more than 50 hostages, including several priests & Versailles soldiers
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Final battles as the last barricades of the Commune fall to Versailles
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The French capture Cheik Mokrani's brother, Boumezrag
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Surviving leaders of Mokrani revolt are tried by Assize Court of Algiers
Some are executed, others sentenced to forced labour. Many are deported to New Caledonia in the Pacific