The Siege of Paris 1870-71 (In Our Time)
1870 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian war and the social unrest that followed, as the French capital was cut off from the rest of the country and food was scarce. When the French government surrendered Paris to the Prussians, power gravitated to the National Guard in the city and to radical socialists, and a Commune established in March 1871 with the red flag replacing the trilcoleur.
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Around 1870
- American Civil War (1861)
- Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- German unification (1871)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Bismarck's chancellorship (1871)