Portal:Anarchism/Anniversaries/October/October 5

Mikhail Bakunin and his wife, circa 1861

• 1839 – Future internationalist anarchist and elected member of the Paris Commune of 1871 Eugène Varlin is born in the vicinity of Paris.
• 1858 – While exiled in Tomsk, Siberia, "Godfather of anarchism" Mikhail Bakunin weds the daughter of a Polish merchant, Antonia Ksaverievna Kwiatkowska (couple pictured)
• 1917 – Mother Earth Bulletin is published for the first time by a collective including Emma Goldman
• 1923 – Swedish anarcho-syndicalist playwright and novelist Stig Dagerman (d. 1954) is born
• 1934 – Surrealist and anarchist filmmaker Jean Vigo (b. 1905) dies