Commune

Timeline

 * 5 April - 1 May 1871. Louis Charles Delescluze successfully trades several bishops and members of the Parisian upper class for Louis Auguste Blanqui. Blanqui returns to Paris and is installed as war time chairman of the commitee of public safety and the national guard. Blanqui would pursue several social reforms and would regiment and expand the military.
 * 2 May 1871, Blanqui, now de-facto leader, storms the national bank which severely cripples the French government's ability to call up troops. Leaflets are dropped into the surrounding camps and the anarchists beginning a campaign of bombings. Blanquist, Marxist, and Anarchist literature spread to cities across the country.
 * 28, May 1871. The soldiers of the French government storm the Paris commune. Due to diplomatic manuvering by Blanqui, the Prussians did not intervene. A bloody battle would ensue, and the Commune would survive with heavy casualties. The national guard would massacre the French military leadership and lead to a general breakdown of society. Peasant armies would seize lands from large conservative landowners and the French government would reconstitute itself in Algiers.
 * 29 May - July 5 1871. Blanqui's communal government expands and Blanqui places himself firmly in control by founding the Central Revolutionary Committee. Blanqui would declare the French Socialist Republic. Blanqui establishes a coalition of Proudhonists and some Marxists and Anarchists in his national guard, which essentially governs the country under "popular law". This law functioned via democratically elected people's courts which would try landlords, nobles, businessmen, and other "enemies of the people" are sentenced to various punishments (in classic French style).
 * July 6 1871 - 5 January 1872. The British refuse to recognize the French Socialist Republic. There are several naval battles including a failed British invasion of France. The British occupy Algeria and most former French colonies while the portuguese occupy Guiana. The British and the French "whites" start working together. France holds its own and signs a pact of non-aggression with Belgium, Luxembourg, and Prussia. Blanqui recognizes Prussian control over Alsace-Lorraine.
 * January 6 - March 11 1872. After the assassination of progressive general Juan Prim, King Amadeo would be isolated and desperately hold on to power with the help of aristocrats and the military. On this day, leftist federalists overthrow the king and establish the Spanish socialist republic. Britain and Portugal invade in support of Amadeo and his prime minister, Francisco Serrano, and are stuck in a quagmire in Galicia. Britain establishes a kingdom led by Amadeo in Galicia and a treaty is signed with Spain. France and Spain sign the International Pact.
 * April 21 1872. Federal Spain attempts to stamp out clerical influence across the country, which caused a revolt under the banner of Carlism and started the third Carlist War. The Carlists were supported by Britain and Galicia.
 * April 30 - June 1 1872. France launches an invasion of Italy with the help of Guissippe Garibaldi. The liberal government is ineffectual and much of Italy falls. Garibaldi establishes a republican government joins the internationalist pact. Austria invades and occupies Venice with the help of German tyrolian peasants.
 * June 5 - July 27 1872. Belgium and the Netherlands increasingly bend to France as many politicians begin taking up some aspect of socialism. Bismarckian Germany also strengthens its state socialism and is forced to keep the SPD legal so as not to anger France. The Internationalists sign a truce with Britain, though this is merely a ceasefire between wars.