Paris Riots and Contributing Global Revolutions 1968

By MYER
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    Paris Riots during May 1968

  • Courses Suspended at Nanterre

    Prime Minister Georges Pompidou leaves for official visits to Iran and Afghanistan. Courses at the faculty of letters are suspended at Nanterre after incidents there.

  • Protests in the Latin Quarter-596 arrested

    Police clear the courtyard at the Sorbonne. Violence in the Quartier Latin results in more than 100 injured and 596 arrested.

  • ALL courses suspended at the Sorbonne University

    1. May - Courses at the Sorbonne are suspended. The UNEF and the Snesup call for unlimited strikes.

  • Protestors Jailed

    Courts convict 13 demonstrators and four are given jail terms.

  • 422 Arrests, 345 police and 600 students are hurt.

    Battles in the Quartier Latin: Students at universities throughout France pledge support and fellow defence.

  • The Minister of Education forbids the re-opening of the faculties.

  • Night of the Barricades

    Riots in Latin Quarter: police assault 60 barricades. 367 are hospitalized of which 251 are police; 720 others hurt and 468 arrested. Cars burned were 60 and 188 others were damaged.

  • Unions call for general strike on 13th May

    The major unions demand for a general strike on 13. May.. George Pomidou announces the re-opening of the Sorbonne for the 13th of May.

  • General Strike: Sorbonne occupied by students.

    The general strike means hundreds of thousands of students/workers in the streets of Paris; the Sorbonne is occupied by students.

  • Strikes hit factories

    Strikes hit other factories throughout France, air transport, the RATP and the SNCF. Newspapers have stopped being distributed.

  • Cannes Film Festival is closed

  • 10 million workers are on strike: France Paralysed

  • Agreements made between unions, empolyee's and the government.

    Minimum wage is to be raised, working hours cut, reduction in the age of retirement. Workers at big firms refuse to return to work.

  • Georges Pompidou resigns from Minister of Education

  • President Charles de Gualle in defence

    By radio, President de Gaulle dissolves National Assembly and insists Georges Pompidou remain Prime Minister. An law is made that force will be used to maintain order, if necessary. Tens of thousands of government supporters march from Concorde to the Etoile.