List of coups and coup attempts by country

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This is a list of coups d'état and coup attempts by country, listed in chronological order. A coup is an attempt to illegally overthrow a country's government. Scholars generally consider a coup successful when the usurpers are able to maintain control of the government for at least seven days.

Afghanistan

1. February 20, 1919: Nasrullah Khan overthrew Habibullah Khan.
2. February 28, 1919: Amanullah Khan overthrew Nasrullah Khan.
3. January 17, 1929: Habibullah Kalakani overthrew Inayatullah Khan.
4. October 16, 1929: Mohammed Nadir Shah overthew Habibullāh Kalakāni.
5. July 17, 1973: Mohammed Daoud Khan overthrew Mohammed Zahir Shah.
6. December 9, 1976: Qiyam-i Islami (Islamic Uprising) attemptted failed to overthrow Mohammed Daoud Khan.
7. April 30, 1978: Abdul Qadir overthrew Mohammed Daoud Khan.
8. September 16, 1979: Hafizullah Amin overthrew Nur Muhammad Taraki.
9. December 27, 1979: Babrak Karmal overthrew Hafizullah Amin.
10. March 6, 1990: Shahnawaz Tanai attemptted and failed to overthrow Mohammad Najibullah.

Albania

1. 1914: The Peasant Revolt in Albania, also known as the Islamic Revolt or Muslim Uprising in Albania, was an uprising of peasants from central Albania, mostly Muslims, against the regime of Wilhelm, Prince of Albania in 1914. It was one of the reasons for the prince's withdrawal from the country, which marked the fall of the Principality of Albania. The uprising was led by Muslim leaders Haxhi Qamili, Arif Hiqmeti, Musa Qazimi, and Mustafa Ndroqi.
2. June–December 1924: The June Revolution (Albanian: Kryengritja e Qershoritcode: sqi promoted to code: sq or Lëvizja e Qershoritcode: sqi promoted to code: sq ), also known as the Antibourgeois Democratic Revolution (Albanian: Revolucioni Demokrat Antiborgjezcode: sqi promoted to code: sq ), was a peasant insurgency backed by the parliamentary opposition to the Zogu government, following the 1923 Albanian parliamentary election. Fan Noli became the Prime Minister of Albania.
3. September 14, 1998: The funeral of Azem Hajdari, a Member of Parliment, turns violent as the office of the Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano is attacked, obliging the Nano to hastily flee and step down shortly after. His party remained in power.

Algeria

1. July 3, 1962: Houari Boumédiène and Ahmed Ben Bella overthrew Benyoucef Benkhedda.
2. June 19, 1965: Houari Boumédiène overthrew Ahmed Ben Bella.
3. December 14–16, 1967: Colonel Tahar Zbiri failed to overthrow Houari Boumédiène.
4. January 11, 1992: Khaled Nezzar overthrew Chadli Bendjedid.

Angola

1. 1977 Angolan coup d'état attempt: The Minister of Interior Nito Alves failed to overthrow Agostinho Neto.

Argentina

Main article: Military coups in Argentina

1. September 6, 1930: General José Félix Uriburu and the Nacionalistas overthrew President Hipólito Yrigoyen and suspended the 1853 Constitution.
2. December 18, 1932: failed military uprising against Agustín Pedro Justo by Atilio Cattáneo and the Radical Civic Union.
3. June 4, 1943: the military overthrew president Ramón Castillo.
4. September 28, 1951: failed military revolt against President Juan Perón by Benjamín Menéndez.
5. September 16–23, 1955: the military, led by General Eduardo Lonardi, overthrew president Juan Perón.
6. June 6, 1956: failed military uprising, led by General Juan José Valle, against de facto President Pedro Eugenio Aramburu.
7. June 19, 1959: failed military uprising against Arturo Frondizi by Arturo Ossorio Arana.
8. November 30, 1960: failed military uprising against Arturo Frondizi by Miguel Ángel Iñíguez.
9. March 29, 1962: the military, led by General Raúl Poggi, overthrew President Arturo Frondizi.
10. June 28, 1966: a military uprising led by General Juan Carlos Onganía overthrew president Arturo Umberto Illia.
11. December 18–22, 1975: failed military uprising against Isabel Perón by Jesús Orlando Cappellini.
12. March 24, 1976: Jorge Videla overthrew Isabel Perón and established the National Reorganization Process.

Armenia

1. February 25, 2021: the Armenian military called for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign. Pashinyan accused the military of attempting a coup d'état.

Australia

1. January 26, 1808: the New South Wales Corps overthrew William Bligh, Governor of New South Wales, and installed Major George Johnston as acting lieutenant-governor.

Austria

1. March 15, 1933: Self-coup by Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, which effectively ended democracy and the First Republic.
2. July 25, 1934: the Austrian Nazi Party and the Austrian SS attempted to overthrow the Fatherland Front government in the Federal State of Austria, resulting in the assassination of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss and his succession by Kurt Schuschnigg.

Azerbaijan

1. June 9, 1993: Heydar Aliyev overthrew Abulfaz Elchibey in a political crisis during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War
2. March 13, 1995: Colonel Rovshan Javadov and his unit of OPON troops failed to seize power from President Heydar Aliyev and reinstate his predecessor Abulfaz Elchibey after Turkish President Süleyman Demirel warned Aliyev.
3. May 16, 2023: Alleged Iran-backed coup plot.

Bahrain

1. 1981 Bahraini coup d'état attempt: 73 members of the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain were arrested by the Bahraini government for attempting to orchestrate a coup. The coup was allegedly assisted by Iran, although the Iranian government has denied this claim.

Bangladesh

Main article: Military coups in Bangladesh

1. August 15, 1975: Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad overthrew the BaKSAL government of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
2. November 3, 1975: Khaled Mosharraf overthrew the government set up by the August coup.
3. November 7, 1975: Soldiers from the Bangladesh Army overthrew and killed Khaled Mosharraf just a few days after he took power.
4. May 30, 1981: Soldiers led by Major General Mohammad Abdul Monjur assassinated President Ziaur Rahman. They failed to seize power and were rounded up.
5. March 24, 1982: Hussain Muhammad Ershad overthrew President Abdus Sattar.
6. May 1996: Abu Saleh Mohammad Nasim attempted and failed to overthrow Abdur Rahman Biswas.
7. January 11, 2007: General Moeen U Ahmed pressured President Iajuddin Ahmed into declaring a state of emergency, postponing elections, and appointing a new Chief Advisor to head the caretaker government.
8. December 2011: Rebel army officers attempted and failed to overthrow Sheikh Hasina.

Belgium

Austrian Netherlands

See also: Austrian Netherlands

1. June 18, 1789: The Austrian Imperial Army occupied the Great Market of Brussels, dissolved the States of Brabant and Council of Brabant, and tried to arrest all its members.

United Belgian States

See also: United Belgian States

1. March 1790: Statist coup against the Vonckists.

Benin

1. October 28, 1963: Christophe Soglo overthrew Hubert Maga and the Dahomeyan Unity Party.
2. November 27, 1965: Christophe Soglo overthrew Sourou-Migan Apithy.
3. December 16, 1967: Maurice Kouandété overthrew Christophe Soglo.
4. December 10, 1969: Maurice Kouandété overthrew Emile Derlin Zinsou.
5. October 26, 1972: Mathieu Kérékou overthrew Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin.
6. January 17, 1977: French-led mercenaries attempted to overthrow Mathieu Kérékou and the People's Revolutionary Party of Benin government.
7. March 4, 2013: Failed coup attempt by Colonel Pamphile Zomahoun against President Thomas Boni Yayi.

Bolivia

Main article: Coups d'état in Bolivia

1. April 18, 1828: Military revolt. Antonio José de Sucre was wounded in the arm and resigned.
2. December 31, 1828 to January 1, 1829: President Pedro Blanco Soto was deposed and killed in a coup led by José Ballivián.
3. January 22, 1839: José Miguel de Velasco overthrew Andrés de Santa Cruz.
4. June 10, 1841: Sebastián Ágreda overthrew José Miguel de Velasco.
5. September 22, 1841: José Ballivián overthrew Mariano Enrique Calvo.
6. January 2, 1848: Manuel Isidoro Belzu overthrew Eusebio Guilarte and installed José Miguel de Velasco as president.
7. December 6, 1848: Manuel Isidoro Belzu overthrew José Miguel de Velasco; failed counter-coup by Velasco.
8. 1854: Failed military revolt, with notable participant Mariano Melgarejo, against Manuel Isidoro Belzu.
9. September 9, 1857: José María Linares overthrew Jorge Córdova.
10. January 14, 1861: José María de Achá, Ruperto Fernández, and Manuel Antonio Sánchez overthrew José María Linares.
11. December 28, 1864: Mariano Melgarejo overthrew José María de Achá.
12. January 15, 1871: Agustín Morales overthrew Mariano Melgarejo.
13. May 4, 1876: Hilarión Daza overthrew Tomás Frías.
14. December 28, 1879: Hilarión Daza was declared deposed and, in his absence, Narciso Campero was proclaimed president on January 19, 1880.
15. April 12, 1899: José Manuel Pando overthrew Severo Fernández.
16. August 12, 1920: Bautista Saavedra overthrew José Gutiérrez.
17. June 28, 1930: Carlos Blanco Galindo overthrew Hernando Siles Reyes' ministerial cabinet.
18. November 27, 1934: Military revolt. Germán Busch, under the orders of David Toro and Enrique Peñaranda, overthrew Daniel Salamanca Urey and installed Vice President José Luis Tejada Sorzano as president.
19. May 17, 1936: Germán Busch overthrew José Luis Tejada Sorzano and installed David Toro as president.
20. July 13, 1937: Germán Busch overthrew David Toro.
21. December 20, 1943: Gualberto Villarroel overthrew Enrique Peñaranda.
22. July 21, 1946: An enraged mob lynched Gualberto Villarroel. Néstor Guillén, and then Tomás Monje, were installed as interim presidents.
23. May 16, 1951: Mamerto Urriolagoitía enacted a self-coup and installed General Hugo Ballivián as president to stop President-elect Víctor Paz Estenssoro from taking office.
24. April 11, 1952: Hernán Siles Zuazo overthrew Hugo Ballivián and installed Víctor Paz Estenssoro as president.
25. November 5, 1964: René Barrientos and Alfredo Ovando Candía overthrew Víctor Paz Estenssoro.
26. September 26, 1969: Alfredo Ovando Candía overthrew Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas.
27. October 6, 1970: Military revolt. Three armed forces chiefs overthrow Alfredo Ovando Candía but ruled for less than a day before Ovando loyalists under Juan José Torres took back control. Ovando agreed to entrust the presidency to Torres.
28. August 21, 1971: Hugo Banzer overthrew Juan José Torres.
29. November 7, 1974: Failed military revolt. Hugo Banzer banned all political activity and ruled solely with military support.
30. July 21, 1978: Juan Pereda overthrew the transitional military junta.
31. November 24, 1978: David Padilla overthrew Juan Pereda.
32. November 1, 1979: Alberto Natusch overthrew Wálter Guevara.
33. July 17, 1980: Luis García Meza overthrew Lidia Gueiler Tejada.
34. June 30, 1984: Failed military coup attempt arrests Hernán Siles Zuazo for ten hours.

Brazil

TV Senado video on Lott's 1955 countercoup (eng. subs).

1. July 30, 1832: a failed coup by Diogo Feijó.
2. November 15, 1889: Deodoro da Fonseca and the Imperial Brazilian Army overthrew Pedro II of Brazil and established the First Brazilian Republic.
3. November 3, 1891: Deodoro da Fonseca dissolved the National Congress during the Encilhamento crisis.
4. November 23, 1891: Floriano Peixoto took power without calling for new elections, in violation of the Constitution.
5. November 15, 1904: Attempted military coup during the Vaccine Revolt.
6. December 1915: a coup plot against Venceslau Brás.
7. July 5, 1922: a failed military coup to prevent the inauguration of Arthur Bernardes.
8. November 3, 1930: Getúlio Vargas overthrew Washington Luís and prevented the inauguration of Júlio Prestes.
9. November 10, 1937: Getúlio Vargas dissolved the National Congress, installing the Estado Novo dictatorship.
10. October 29, 1945: A military coup d'état deposed Getúlio Vargas, installing the Second Brazilian Republic.
11. August 24, 1954: Possible coup d'état was averted after Getúlio Vargas committed suicide.
12. November 11, 1955: A coup d'état to prevent Juscelino Kubitschek from assuming the presidency failed after general Henrique Lott carried out a countercoup.
13. February 10, 1956: The Brazilian Air Force revolted against Juscelino Kubitschek in the Revolta de Jacareacanga.
14. December 2, 1959: Air Force military hijacked a civilian airplane and attempted a coup against Juscelino Kubitschek, in the Aragarças Revolt.
15. August 25 to September 7, 1961: Military tried to prevent João Goulart from being sworn into the presidency after Jânio Quadros resigned. After a civilian campaign and support from legalist members of the military, a coup was averted when a parliamentary regime was adopted, curbing presidential powers (later reverted).
16. September 12, 1963: Displeased lower-ranking military personnel rebelled in Brasília after the Supreme Federal Court reaffirmed their ineligibility for legislative posts, in the Sergeants' Revolt.
17. March 31, 1964: Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco overthrew João Goulart, establishing the 21-year-long dictatorship.
18. August 31, 1969: The military prevented Pedro Aleixo, civilian vice-president and legal successor according to the military dictatorship's recently enacted constitution, from assuming power after Costa e Silva suffered a stroke.
19. December 2022: 2022 Brazilian Coup plot.
20. January 8, 2023: Supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the National Congress, Supreme Federal Court and Planalto Palace in Brasília, in an effort to overturn the result of the 2022 Brazilian general election and called for a military coup against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. See also: Planning for a coup d'état after the 2022 Brazilian presidential elections.

Bulgaria

1. April 27, 1881: A self-coup of Knyaz Alexander of Battenberg, who dismissed the government of Petko Karavelov and suspended the Tarnovo Constitution.
2. August 9, 1886: An attempted dethroning of Knyaz Alexander of Battenberg.
3. June 9, 1923: The Military Union overthrew Aleksandar Stamboliyski and installed coup leader Aleksandar Tsankov in power.
4. September 14–29, 1923: Staged in September 1923 by the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) under Comintern pressure, this was an attempt to overthrow Alexander Tsankov's new government that had come to power with the June 9 coup d'état. Other than its communist base, the uprising was also supported by agrarians and anarchists. The uprising's goal was the "establishment of a government of workers and peasants" in Bulgaria.
5. May 19, 1934: Zveno, led by Kimon Georgiev with the help of the Military Union, overthrew the coalition government led by the Democratic Party.
6. September 9, 1944: Zveno and the Fatherland Front, led by Kimon Georgiev, overthrew Konstantin Muraviev after the Soviet invasion of Bulgaria.
7. April 1965: A plot within the Bulgarian Communist Party to overthrow Todor Zhivkov and establish an anti-Soviet Communist government was foiled.
8. November 10, 1989: Todor Zhivkov was ousted in a palace coup within the Bulgarian Communist Party.

Burkina Faso

1. January 3, 1966: Lieutenant Colonel Sangoulé Lamizana overthrew President Maurice Yaméogo.
2. February 8, 1974: A self-coup, orchestrated by President General Sangoulé Lamizana (in office since the 1966 coup), against the RDA-led government of Prime Minister Gérard Kango Ouédraogo.
3. November 25, 1980: Colonel Saye Zerbo overthrew President Sangoulé Lamizana.
4. November 7, 1982: Major Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo overthrew President Saye Zerbo.
5. February 28, 1983: Failed coup attempt against President Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo.
6. August 4, 1983: Captain Blaise Compaoré overthrew President Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, replacing him with Captain Thomas Sankara.
7. October 15, 1987: Blaise Compaoré overthrew Thomas Sankara.
8. September 18, 1989: Alleged failed coup attempt by senior officers against President Compaoré.
9. October 2003: The attempted coup was carried out against long-time strongman President Blaise Compaoré and his CDP regime, and resulted in the imprisonment of several members of the military and political dissidents.
10. October 30, 2014: Lt. Colonel Yacouba Isaac Zida overthrew current President Blaise Compaoré and briefly served as head of state before selecting Michel Kafando as the new president. Days later, Kafando appointed Zida as acting Prime Minister.
11. September 17, 2015: The presidential guard headed by Gilbert Diendéré overthrew Interim President Michel Kafando one month before elections. However, the coup collapsed one week later and Kafando was reinstalled.
12. October 8, 2016: Blaise Compaoré loyalists and former presidential guards failed to overthrow President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré.
13. January 23, 2022: President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré was reported to have been detained by the soldiers at the military camp in the capital. On January 24, the military announced on television that Kaboré had been deposed from his position as president. After the announcement, the military declared that the parliament, government and constitution had been dissolved.
14. September 30, 2022: The coup removed Interim President Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba over his alleged inability to deal with the country's Islamist insurgency. Captain Ibrahim Traoré took over as interim leader.
15. September 26, 2023: failed coup attempt against President Ibrahim Traore.

Burundi

1. October 18–19, 1965: Failed coup against Mwambutsa IV of Burundi.
2. July 8, 1966: Ntare V overthrew Mwambutsa IV.
3. November 28, 1966: Michel Micombero overthrew Ntare V.
4. November 10, 1976: Jean-Baptiste Bagaza overthrew Michel Micombero.
5. September 3, 1987: Pierre Buyoya overthrew Jean-Baptiste Bagaza.
6. October 21 to November 1993: Failed coup that led to the assassination of Melchior Ndadaye.
7. July 25, 1996: Pierre Buyoya overthrew Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
8. April 18, 2001: Failed coup against Pierre Buyoya.
9. May 13–15, 2015: Failed coup d'état led by General Godefroid Niyombare against President Pierre Nkurunziza.

Cambodia

1. 1959: Bangkok Plot.
2. March 18, 1970: Lon Nol overthrew Norodom Sihanouk.
3. July 5, 1997: Hun Sen overthrew Norodom Ranariddh.

Cameroon

1. April 6, 1984: Presidential palace guards failed to overthrow president Paul Biya.

Central African Republic

1. January 1, 1966: Jean-Bédel Bokassa overthrew David Dacko.
2. 1974: General Martin Lingoupou attempted to overthrow Bokassa.
3. 1975: There was an attempt to overthrow Bokassa.
4. 1976: Groups of soldiers try to overthrow Bokassa.
5. September 21, 1979: David Dacko overthrew Jean-Bédel Bokassa with French military support.
6. September 1, 1981: André Kolingba overthrew David Dacko.
7. 1982: Ange-Félix Patassé, François Bozizé, and Alphonse Mbaïkoua, attempted to overthrow André Kolingba.
8. 1996: Soldiers attempted to overthrow Patassé.
9. May 27–28, 2001: There was a failed coup attempt against Ange-Félix Patassé.
10. October 25–28, 2002: François Bozizé attempted to overthrow Patassé.
11. March 15, 2003: François Bozizé overthrew Ange-Félix Patassé.
12. March 24, 2013: Michel Djotodia overthrew François Bozizé.
13. September 26 to October 3, 2015: Failed attempt by Haroun Gaye and Eugene Ngaïkosset to overthrow Catherine Samba-Panza.
14. January 13, 2021: A coup attempt by rebel groups, led by former President François Bozizé, against Faustin-Archange Touadéra fails.

Chad

1. April 13, 1975: Noël Milarew Odingar overthrew François Tombalbaye.
2. June 7, 1982: Hissène Habré overthrew Goukouni Oueddei.
3. December 1, 1990: Idriss Déby overthrew Hissène Habré.
4. May 16, 2004: Failed coup against President Idriss Déby.
5. March 14, 2006: Failed coup against President Idriss Déby.
6. May 1, 2013: Failed coup against Idriss Déby.

Chile

For a more comprehensive list, see List of Chilean coups d'état.

1. 1781: A failed attempt to declare Chile an independent republic.
2. September 18, 1810: A successful coup in favor of home rule in Chile.
3. April 1, 1811: A failed attempt to restore royal power in Chile.
4. September 4, 1811: A successful coup in favor of José Miguel Carrera.
5. 1827: A failed attempt to destroy the opposition to the federalist system.
6. June 1828: San Fernando mutiny, led by Pedro Urriola, José Antonio Vidaurre, and the Maipo Battalion.
7. 1829: An armed conflict between conservatives and liberals over the constitutional regime.
8. 1831: Arauco rebellion led by Pedro Barnechea and Captain Uriarte.
9. 1832: Rebellion of Cazadores de Quechereguas Regiment, under Captain Eusebio Ruiz.
10. 1833: Arteaga Conspiracy led by General Zenteno and Coronel Picarte.
11. 1833: Cotapos revolution, led by José Antonio Pérez de Cotapos.
12. 1836: An invasion of Chiloé Island and failed attempt to depose the government.
13. 1837: A failed attempt to depose the government that resulted in the death of Diego Portales.
14. 1851: An armed rebellion by liberals against the conservative President Manuel Montt.
15. 1859: A rekindling of the armed rebellion by liberals against the conservative President Manuel Montt that began in 1851.
16. 1891: An armed conflict between forces supporting National Congress and forces supporting President José Manuel Balmaceda.
17. 1891–94: Several Balmacedist plots, planned by Hernán Abos-Padilla, Nicanor Donoso, Diego Bahamondes, Luis Leclerc, Herminio Euth, José Domingo Briceño, Edmundo Pinto, Manuel and Emilio Rodríguez, Virgilio Talquino, and Anselmo Blanlot against the new government.
18. 1912: A failed plot against President Ramon Barros Luco. In September, Gonzalo Bulnes the appointed leader of the plot, desisted.
19. 1919: A failed plot by Generals Guillermo Armstrong and Manuel Moore against President Juan Luis Sanfuentes.
20. September 5, 1924: A successful coup against President Arturo Alessandri.
21. January 23, 1925: A successful coup in which Carlos Ibáñez del Campo and Marmaduke Grove overthrew Luis Altamirano to return President Arturo Alessandri to office.
22. September 21, 1930: A failed attempt against President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo by Marmaduke Grove.
23. July 26, 1931: Fall of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, successful rebellion against Ibañez.
24. September 1931: A rebellion in the Chilean Navy against Vice-president Manuel Trucco that ended with the fleet being bombed from the air.
25. December 25, 1931: A failed Communist push against President Juan Esteban Montero.
26. June 4, 1932: A successful coup that resulted in the instauration of the Socialist Republic of Chile, in which Carlos Dávila overthrew Juan Esteban Montero.
27. September 27, 1932: A successful coup of General Pedro Vignola that resulted in the resignation of President Bartolomé Blanche and a return to civilian rule.
28. 1933: A failed plot against President Arturo Alessandri. Commander-in-Chief of the army, Pedro Vignola, called "to resist the Milicia Republicana by any means."
29. 1935: Humberto Videla's plot, failed rebellion of NCOs.
30. 1936: plot against Alessandri by René Silva Espejo and Alejandro Lagos.
31. September 5, 1938: A failed National Socialist attempt in favor of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo that resulted in the murder of 59 young party members.
32. August 25, 1939: A failed attempt by Ariosto Herrera against President Pedro Aguirre Cerda.
33. 1948: A failed plot against President Gabriel González Videla.
34. 1954: A failed plot to allow President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo to assume dictatorial powers.
35. June 29, 1973: A failed coup against President Salvador Allende.
36. September 11, 1973: A successful coup against President Salvador Allende (resulting in his suicide), in favor of Augusto Pinochet.

China

Imperial China

1. February 2, 249: Sima Yi initiated a coup against the Cao Wei regent Cao Shuang.
2. July 2, 626: During the Xuanwu Gate Incident, Prince Li Shimin and his close followers killed Crown Prince Li Jiancheng and Prince Li Yuanji before taking complete control of the Tang government from Emperor Gaozu.
3. February 960 – Coup at Chen Bridge: during the Later Zhou dynasty, one of its distinguished military generals, Zhao Kuangyin, staged a coup d'état, forcing the last ruler of the dynasty, Emperor Gong, to abdicate the throne in his favor. Thus the general Zhao Kuangyin became Emperor Taizu who founded the Song Dynasty, reigning from 960 until his death in 976.
4. September 4, 1323: Coup d'état at Nanpo against Gegeen Khan (alias Emperor Yingzong of Yuan, or Shidibala).
5. 1856 – The Taiping rebellion: East King Yang Xiuqing attempts to take control of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, but he and his followers are killed.
6. 1861: With the help of Prince Gong, Empress Dowager Cixi ousted eight regents (led by Sushun) whom the Xianfeng Emperor had appointed on his deathbed to rule for the child Tongzhi Emperor.
7. September 21, 1898 – Wuxu Coup: In response to the Hundred Days' Reform, Empress Dowager Cixi took power from the Guangxu Emperor.
8. February 12, 1912: Qing general Yuan Shikai, by agreement with Sun Yat-sen and his Provisional Government, forced Emperor Puyi to abdicate and established the Beiyang government, ending the Qing Dynasty.

Republic of China

1. Late 1913 to January 1914: Yuan Shikai crackdown on the Chinese National Assembly.
2. December 12, 1915: Yuan Shikai launches a self-coup by establishing the Empire of China, with himself as the Emperor of China.
3. June 14, 1917: Qing-loyalist general Zhang Xun overthrew Chinese President Li Yuanhong and later proclaim the restoration of the Qing Empire with Puyi as emperor.
4. July 12, 1917: Brief restoration attempt was crushed by troops loyal to warlord Duan Qirui.
5. July 19, 1920: Cao Kun and Zhang Zuolin overthrew Duan Qirui.
6. January 25, 1922: Wu Peifu overthrew Liang Shiyi causing the First Zhili-Fengtian War.
7. October 23, 1924: Feng Yuxiang overthrew Cao Kun.
8. April 18, 1926: Zhang Xueliang and Wu Peifu captured the capital, Beijing, and then sacked the city, leading to the collapse of the Beiyang government and the near destruction of Guominjun faction.
9. April 12, 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders a purge of communists in his Kuomintang party to ensure right-wing dominance in the party.
10. June 2, 1928: Yan Xishan (allied with Chiang Kai-shek) overthrew Zhang Zuolin.
11. April 1930: Yan Xishan expeled Chiang Kai-shek's supporters from Beijing, starting the Central Plains War.
12. December 12, 1936 to December 25, 1936: Zhang Xueliang kidnapped Chiang Kai-shek in an attempt to seize power and establish a united Anti-Japanese front with the Communist Party against the Japanese occupation of Manchuria.

People's Republic of China

1. 1971: A failed coup plot to overthrow Mao Zedong.
2. October 6, 1976: the Gang of Four, which allegedly tried to take over the government after the death of chairman Mao Zedong in September, is arrested.

Colombia

Gran Colombia

1. August 27, 1828: After the failure of the Convention of Ocaña, Simón Bolívar performs a self-coup by declaring a dictatorship under the title of "President-Liberator."
2. September 25, 1828: A failed conspiracy that attempted to assassinate Simón Bolívar.
3. September 4, 1830: Rafael Urdaneta overthrew Joaquín Mosquera.

Modern State

1. April 17, 1854: José María Melo overthrew José María Obando.
2. July 18, 1861: Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera overthrew Julio Arboleda Pombo.
3. May 23, 1867: Santos Acosta overthrew Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera.
4. July 31, 1900: Vice President José Manuel Marroquín overthrew Manuel Antonio Sanclemente.
5. July 4, 1909: Failed coup against Jorge Holguín.
6. July 10, 1944: coup attempt against Alfonso López Pumarejo by some soldiers.
7. June 13, 1953: Gustavo Rojas Pinilla overthrew Laureano Gómez.

Comoros

1. August 3, 1975: Said Mohamed Jaffar and Bob Denard overthrew Ahmed Abdallah.
2. May 23, 1978: Ahmed Abdallah and Bob Denard overthrew Ali Soilih.
3. November 26, 1989: Said Mohamed Djohar and Bob Denard overthrew Ahmed Abdallah.
4. September 28, 1995: Bob Denard overthrew Said Mohamed Djohar for seven days.
5. April 30, 1999: Azali Assoumani overthrew Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde.
6. April 20, 2013: A failed coup against President Ikililou Dhoinine.

Congo, Democratic Republic of the

1. September 14, 1960: Joseph-Désiré Mobutu (later Mobutu Sese Seko) overthrew Patrice Lumumba.
2. November 25, 1965: Joseph-Désiré Mobutu (later Mobutu Sese Seko) overthrew Joseph Kasa-Vubu.
3. May 16, 1997: Laurent-Désiré Kabila overthrew Mobutu Sese Seko, leading to the First Congo War.
4. February 27, 2011: Coup attempt against Joseph Kabila.
5. May 19, 2024: members of the New Zaire Movement attempted to overthrow Félix Tshisekedi.

Congo, Republic of the

1. August 15, 1963: Alphonse Massamba-Débat overthrew Fulbert Youlou.
2. September 4, 1968: Marien Ngouabi overthrew Alphonse Massamba-Débat.
3. February 8, 1979: Denis Sassou Nguesso overthrew Joachim Yhombi-Opango.
4. October 25, 1997: Denis Sassou Nguesso overthrew Pascal Lissouba.

Costa Rica

1. March 29, 1823: Joaquín de Oreamuno overthrew Rafael Francisco Osejo.
2. April 27, 1870: Bruno Carranza overthrew Jesús Jiménez Zamora.
3. July 30, 1876: Vicente Herrera Zeledón overthrew Aniceto Esquivel Sáenz.
4. January 27, 1917: Federico Tinoco Granados overthrew Alfredo González Flores.
5. April 24, 1948: José Figueres Ferrer overthrew Teodoro Picado Michalski.
6. January 1955: Failed attempt to overthrow José Figueres Ferrer.

Cuba

1. September 3, 1933: Fulgencio Batista ousted Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada.
2. March 10, 1952: Batista overthrew Carlos Prío Socarrás.
3. January 1, 1959: Fidel Castro and his communist revolutionaries overthrew the Fulgencio Batista government.

Curaçao

1. December 1, 1796: Johann Lauffer overthrew Jan Jacob Beaujon as governor.

Cyprus

1. 1972–1973: Three bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church attempted to overthrow Archbishop Makarios III as President of Cyprus.
2. July 15, 1974: Nikos Sampson, with support from EOKA B and the National Guard, overthrew Makarios III.

Czechoslovakia

1. 1926–28 Gajda Affair: Rumored coup plots by Radola Gajda and the Czechoslovak Army against President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk's government.
2. 1938: Failed coup by Konrad Henlein.
3. February 25, 1948: the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia under Klement Gottwald eliminates all democratic elements from power.
4. May 17, 1949: Failed coup by Květoslav Prokeš.

Denmark

1. 1660: Frederick III of Denmark declared a state of emergency after the Dano-Swedish War to forcibly implement an absolute hereditary monarchy .
2. 1772: Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, her advisor Ove Høegh-Guldberg, and her son Hereditary Prince Frederick threw a palace coup against Queen Caroline Matilda of Great Britain and her lover Johann Friedrich Struensee, who had come to dominate the Danish court due to the mental illness of King Christian VII.
3. 1784: Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark overthrew Juliana Maria's clique. The Crown Prince became regent.

Dominica

1. April 27, 1981: Failed coup attempt by American and Canadian Neo-Nazi white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan leaders James Alexander McQuirter and Don Black to overthrow Prime Minister Eugenia Charles and restore Prime Minister Patrick John.

Dominican Republic

1. May 29, 1849: Pedro Santana overthrew Manuel Jimenes.
2. August 4, 1865: José María Cabral overthrew Pedro Antonio Pimentel.
3. October 5, 1876: Ignacio María González overthrew Ulises Francisco Espaillat.
4. 1878: Buenaventura Báez was overthrown.
5. December 6, 1879: Gregorio Luperón overthrew Cesáreo Guillermo.
6. May 2, 1902: Horacio Vásquez overthrew Juan Isidro Jimenes.
7. March 23, 1903: Alejandro Woss y Gil overthrew Horacio Vásquez.
8. November 24, 1903: Carlos Morales Languasco overthrew Alejandro Woss y Gil.
9. March 3, 1930: Rafael Trujillo and Rafael Estrella Ureña overthrew Horacio Vásquez.
10. September 25, 1963: Elías Wessin y Wessin overthrew Juan Bosch, leading to the Dominican Civil War.

Ecuador

1. 1925: Coup by Luis Telmo Paz y Miño.
2. 1935: Coup by Federico Páez.
3. 1963: Coup by Ramón Castro Jijón.
4. 1972: Coup by Guillermo Rodríguez.
5. 1975: failed attempt by General Raúl González Alvear.
6. 2000: Coup by Lucio Gutiérrez.
7. 2010: Coup by the National Police of Ecuador.

Egypt

1. 1879: Nationalist Revolution. Beginning of the British Occupation of Egypt.
2. 1919: Attempt to stop the British Occupation of Egypt. The Kingdom of Egypt is established and recognised as an independent state.
3. 1952: Muhammad Naguib and the Free Officers Movement overthrew Farouk of Egypt, ending the Kingdom of Egypt.
4. February 27, 1954: Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrew Muhammad Naguib.
5. December 1957: Prince Muhammad Abdel Moneim attempted to overthrow Nasser and restore the monarchy.
6. 2011: Hosni Mubarak was overthrown.
7. 2013: Mohamed Morsi was overthrown by General Abdel Fattah El Sisi.

El Salvador

1. December 2, 1931 by Maximiliano Hernández Martínez.
2. April 2, 1944: Failed military coup attempt.
3. October 20, 1944: Coup by Osmín Aguirre y Salinas.
4. December 14, 1948: Coup by Manuel de Jesús Córdova.
5. October 26, 1960: A bloodless coup overthrew President José María Lemus.
6. January 25, 1961: A coup overthrew the junta established just a few months before.
7. March 25–26, 1972: Failed military coup attempt.
8. October 15, 1979: A coup d'état brought the Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador to power.

England

1. 1569: Rising of the North.
2. 1571: Ridolfi Plot.
3. 1583: Throckmorton Plot.
4. 1586: Babington Plot.
5. 1603: Alleged Spanish-funded plot by courtiers led by Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham to overthrow King James I and replace him with his cousin Lady Arbella Stuart.
6. November 5, 1605: Failed plot by a group of provincial English Catholics, including Guy Fawkes, who attempted to kill King James I and much of the Protestant aristocracy by blowing up the Houses of Parliament during the State Opening of Parliament.
7. 1641: Alleged and real Royalist plans by King Charles I to suppress the English Parliament before the First English Civil War; exposed by Parliamentarians such as John Pym.
8. 1648: Parliamentarian troops under Colonel Thomas Pride purge the Long Parliament of those opposed to trying King Charles I for treason after the English Civil War, turning it into the republican Rump Parliament and leading directly to the abolition of the monarchy.
9. April 20, 1653: Oliver Cromwell, with 40 musketeers under the command of Charles Worsley, entered the House of Commons and forcibly dissolved the Rump Parliament, leading to Cromwell becoming Lord Protector and instigating military rule.
10. 1654: Abortive Royalist conspiracy to assassinate Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell.
11. 1688–1689: William III of Orange invades England at the invitation of the country's powerful Protestants, deposing the Catholic James II of England.

Equatorial Guinea

1. August 3, 1979: Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo overthrew Francisco Macías Nguema.
2. March 7, 2004: A coup attempt is stopped before the plotters can arrive in country.

Eritrea

1. January 21, 2013: An attempted coup against Isaias Afwerki failed.

Estonia

1. December 1, 1924: failed Communist coup attempt.
2. March 12, 1934: Konstantin Päts conducted a self-coup and established authoritarian rule.

Ethiopia

1. 1910: Ras Tessema Nadew and Fitawrawi Habte Giyorgis overthrew Empress Taytu, regent of the incapacitated Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia.
2. 1916: A group of aristocrats, including Fitawrawi Habte Giyorgis and Ras Tafari Makonnen, overthrow Emperor Iyasu V.
3. 1928 Ethiopian coup d'état attempt: Supporters of Empress Zewditu and Gugsa Wale attempted to remove Tafari Makonnen from the line of succession.
4. December 13, 1960: A group failed to overthrow Emperor Haile Selassie during a state visit.
5. September 12, 1974: Aman Mikael Andom overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie I, establishing the Derg.
6. November 17, 1974: Tafari Benti overthrew Aman Mikael Andom.
7. February 3, 1977: Mengistu Haile Mariam overthrew Tafari Benti.
8. May 16, 1989: A failed coup attempt to overthrow Mengistu Haile Mariam.
9. June 22, 2019: Failed coup against the regional government in Amhara Region resulted in the death of several prominent Ethiopian civil and military officials.

Fiji

1. May 14, 1987: Sitiveni Rabuka overthrew Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra.
2. September 28, 1987: Sitiveni Rabuka overthrew Governor General Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau and Queen Elizabeth II. Fiji is proclaimed a republic.
3. May 19, 2000: George Speight overthrew Mahendra Chaudhry.
4. December 5, 2006: Frank Bainimarama overthrew Laisenia Qarase.

Finland

1. January 27, 1918: The radical left-wing Labour Movement failed to overthrow the Finnish Senate.
2. February 27 to March 6, 1932: The radical nationalist Lapua Movement failed to overthrow the Finnish government.

France

Ancien Régime

1. 1567: A failed plot by Louis, Prince of Condé to kidnap King Charles IX, caused the Second French War of Religion.

Revolutionary France and First Republic

1. August 10, 1792: The Paris Commune rallied Republican fédérés and National Guard troops to storm the Tuileries Palace, effectively deposing the French monarchy and imprisoning King Louis XVI.
2. May 31 to June 2, 1793: Montagnard-aligned sans-culottes arrested all leading Girondin ministers and deputies and executed them.
3. July 26–28, 1794: A conspiracy of anti-Robespierrist Montagnards formed an alliance to have de facto dictator Robespierre and his associates arrested and executed; they escaped but were arrested again and executed.
4. April 1, 1795: Unarmed citizens occupied the National Convention, but were driven out by the National Guard without bloodshed.
5. October 5, 1795: A royalist attempt to seize power in Paris during the Vendée rebellion was crushed by the French Revolutionary Army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte.
6. May 1796: A radical attempt to overthrow the Directory led by Gracchus Babeuf failed.
7. September 4, 1797: The French Directory, with the support of the military, deposed the royalists.
8. May 11, 1798: The French Directory dismissed 106 Jacobin deputies from the Council of Five Hundred.
9. June 18, 1799: The Councils obtained the removal of three out of the five members of the French Directory through military pressure, leaving Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès as the dominant member of the French government.
10. November 9, 1799: Napoleon Bonaparte overthrew the French Directory and installed the French Consulate.
11. February 1804: A foiled royalist plot to overthrow the Napoleonic Consulate.

First Empire

1. October 23, 1812: General Claude François de Malet failed to remove Napoleon from power while he was away on the Russian Campaign.

Second Republic

1. December 2, 1851: Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, then president of France, dissolved the National Assembly and became the sole ruler of the country. In the following year, he restored the French Empire after a referendum.

Third Republic

1. February 23, 1899: Paul Déroulède attempted to overthrow the French Third Republic.

Fourth Republic

1. May 13, 1958: A partial coup d'état led by Pierre Lagaillarde, after which Charles de Gaulle was brought back to power and established the French Fifth Republic.

Fifth Republic

1. April 21–26, 1961: A failed coup d'état against President Charles de Gaulle intended to prevent a withdrawal from French Algeria
2. 2021: under the coordination of a conspirationist leader, around 300 followers (including policemen and military forces) aimed to overthrow Emmanuel Macron.

Gabon

1. February 17–18, 1964: A group of Gabonese officers overthrew President Leon Mba.
2. January 7, 2019: Gabonese soldiers seized the national radio in an attempted coup against Ali Bongo Ondimba.
3. August 30, 2023: Gabonese officers overthrew President Ali Bongo Ondimba after his recent victory on the 2023 Gabonese general election.

The Gambia

1. July 30 to August 4, 1981: attempted coup by Gambia Socialist Revolutionary party was foiled after Senegal intervened.
2. July 22, 1994: Yahya Jammeh overthrew Dawda Jawara.
3. December 30, 2014: a failed coup against Yahya Jammeh, led by Former head of the presidential guards Lamin Sanneh.
4. December 20, 2022: A few soldiers allegedly tried to overthrow the government of President Adama Barrow.

Georgia

1. 1832: A plot by Georgian nobles to assassinate members of the Russian local administration of Georgia and restore political independence under Bagrationi monarchy failed.
2. May 3, 1920: A Bolshevik coup against the Democratic Republic of Georgia failed.
3. December 22, 1991 to January 6, 1992: Warlords Tengiz Kitovani and Jaba Ioseliani overthrew President Zviad Gamsakhurdia.

Germany

Weimar Republic

1. January 1919: The Spartacus League attempted to overthrow the Social Democratic-dominated Council of People's Deputies, but suppressed by the Reichswehr and the Freikorps.
2. March 1920: Various Freikorps led by Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz attempted to overthrow Weimar Republic. They seized control of Berlin but were suppressed with a general strike.
3. November 8, 1923: A failed attempt by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler with Erich Ludendorff to seize control of Bavaria and overthrow Gustav Ritter von Kahr's state government in Munich was suppressed by the Reichswehr and the police.

Third Reich

See also: List of assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler

1. March 23, 1933: By the Enabling Act of 1933, the Chancellor Adolf Hitler assumed full powers in a self-coup.
2. 1938: Oster conspiracy: Plan by Hans Oster and other high-ranking members of the Wehrmacht to overthrow the Nazi dictatorship and crown Prince William of Prussia as Emperor of a revived Hohenzollern Dynasty if Germany went to war with Czechoslovakia over the Sudetenland was never carried out due to the Munich Agreement.
3. July 20, 1944: Members of the German resistance led by Claus von Stauffenberg attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler and seize control from the Nazi Party. They bombed the Wolf's Lair in Rastenburg, East Prussia, but failed to kill Hitler.

Federal Republic

1. December 7, 2022: Police arrested 25 people for allegedly planning a coup. Part of the alleged plot included storming the Bundestag, the German parliament building.

Ghana

1. February 24, 1966: Joseph Arthur Ankrah overthrew Kwame Nkrumah.
2. April 17, 1967: Failed military coup.
3. January 13, 1972: Ignatius Kutu Acheampong overthrew Kofi Abrefa Busia.
4. July 5, 1978: Fred Akuffo overthrew Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.
5. June 4, 1979: Jerry John Rawlings overthrew Fred Akuffo.
6. December 31, 1981: Jerry John Rawlings overthrew Hilla Limann.

Greece

1. 1831: A naval mutiny organized by Andreas Miaoulis against the government of Ioannis Kapodistrias led to the burning of the fleet on August 13 in the port of Poros.
2. 1831: After the assassination of Kapodistrias, a revolt against his brother Augustinos forced the Senate to take refuge in Astros.
3. September 3, 1843: King Otto was forced to grant Greece its first Constitution.
4. October 23, 1862: A coup led to the departure of King Otto and his queen in the first step towards the 1862 Greek head of state referendum, which resulted in Prince William of Denmark becoming George I, the King of the Hellenes.
5. August 15, 1909: The Goudi coup was staged against the government of Dimitrios Rallis, which brought Eleftherios Venizelos to the Greek political scene.
6. August 17, 1916: The National Defence coup d'état of Venizelos supporters in Thessaloniki led to the establishment of the Provisional Government of National Defence.
7. September 11, 1922: A coup led by Colonels Nikolaos Plastiras and Stylianos Gonatas and Commander Dimitrios Phokas, culminated in the abdication of King Constantine I.
8. October 11, 1923: Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt led by royalist officers.
9. June 25, 1925: A coup d'état brought General Theodoros Pangalos to power.
10. August 22, 1926: General Georgios Kondylis overthrew General Pangalos.
11. March 6, 1933: Republican General Nikolaos Plastiras led an attempted coup.
12. March 1, 1935: General Plastiras and Venizelos attempted a coup d'état.
13. October 10, 1935: A coup, led by General Kondylis, signaled the end of the Second Hellenic Republic and led to the restoration of King George II to the throne, according to a referendum.
14. August 4, 1936: General Ioannis Metaxas established the 4th of August Regime.
15. July 28, 1938: A coup d'état attempt rebellion in Crete against the 4th of August Regime.
16. May 31, 1951: Attempted coup d'état of a group of right-wing officers named Sacred Link of Greek Officers (IDEA).
17. April 21, 1967: A coup d'état, performed by a group of right-wing army officers led by Brigadier General Stylianos Pattakos and Colonels Georgios Papadopoulos and Nikolaos Makarezos, established the Regime of the Colonels.
18. December 13, 1967: Greek counter-coup attempt led by King Constantine II against the Regime of the Colonels. The failure of the counter-coup forced the King to leave Greece definitively.
19. May 23, 1973: The Velos mutiny against the Regime of the Colonels. The crew of the destroyer HNS Velos (D-16), under the command of Nikolaos Pappas, demanded political asylum in Italy, while the rest of the mutiny in Greek territory was suppressed.
20. November 25, 1973: The aftermath of the Athens Polytechnic uprising. The coup resulted in overthrowing Colonel Papadopoulos by hardliners around General Dimitrios Ioannidis.
21. February 24, 1975: A coup attempt by certain officers to overthrow the government of Konstantinos Karamanlis.

Grenada

1. March 13, 1979: Maurice Bishop overthrew Eric Gairy.
2. October 14, 1983: Bernard Coard overthrew Maurice Bishop.
3. October 19, 1983: Hudson Austin overthrew Bernard Coard.

Guam

1. 1898: José Sisto overthrew Francisco Portusach Martínez as Governor of Guam after Martinez received the position following the American capture of Guam during the Spanish–American War.
2. 1898: Venancio Roberto and several islanders overthrew José Sisto, who was eventually reappointed to his old position by the U.S. federal government.

Guatemala

1. June 27, 1954: Carlos Castillo Armas overthrew Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán's Revolutionary Action Party government; assisted by the CIA in Operation PBSUCCESS.
2. March 31, 1963: under Enrique Peralta Azurdia.
3. March 23, 1982: under Efraín Ríos Montt.

Guinea

1. April 3, 1984: Lansana Conté overthrew Louis Lansana Beavogui.
2. December 24, 2008: Moussa Dadis Camara overthrew Aboubacar Somparé in what became known as the Christmas Coup.
3. September 5, 2021: Mamady Doumbouya overthrew Alpha Condé.

Guinea-Bissau

1. November 14, 1980: João Bernardo Vieira overthrew Luís Cabral.
2. June 6, 1998: An attempted coup d'état against the government of President João Bernardo Vieira was led by Brigadier General Ansumane Mané.
3. May 7, 1999: Ansumane Mané overthrew João Bernardo Vieira.
4. September 14, 2003: Veríssimo Correia Seabra overthrew Kumba Ialá.
5. December 27, 2011: Attempted coup.
6. April 12, 2012: Mutinous troops overthrew the interim government.
7. February 1, 2022: An attempt to overthrow the government failed.
8. November 30, 2023: An attempted coup d'etat was led by army officers against President Umaro Sissoco Embaló.

Haiti

1. October 17, 1806: Henri Christophe and Alexandre Pétion overthrew Emperor Jacques I.
2. February 13, 1843: Charles Rivière-Hérard overthrew Jean-Pierre Boyer.
3. May 3, 1844: Philippe Guerrier overthrew Charles Rivière-Hérard.
4. March 1, 1846: Jean-Baptiste Riché overthrew Jean-Louis Pierrot.
5. January 15, 1859: Fabre Geffrard overthrew Emperor Faustin I.
6. August 26, 1867: Sylvain Salnave overthrew Fabre Geffrard.
7. December 27, 1869: Nissage Saget overthrew Sylvain Salnave.
8. April 16, 1876: Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal overthrew Michel Domingue.
9. October 2–3, 1879: Lysius Salomon overthrew Joseph Lamothe.
10. October 19, 1888: François Denys Légitime overthrew Lysius Salomon.
11. October 17, 1889: Florvil Hyppolite overthrew François Denys Légitime.
12. December 21, 1902: Pierre Nord Alexis overthrew Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal.
13. December 2, 1908: François C. Antoine Simon overthrew Pierre Nord Alexis.
14. August 3, 1911: Cincinnatus Leconte overthrew Antoine Simon.
15. January 27, 1914: Oreste Zamor overthrew Michel Oreste.
16. October 29, 1914: Joseph Davilmar Théodore overthrew Oreste Zamor.
17. February 25, 1915: Vilbrun Guillaume Sam overthrew Joseph Davilmar Théodore.
18. July 28, 1915: The Mulatto uprising overthrew and killed Vilbrun Guillaume Sam.
19. January 11, 1946: The military junta overthrew Élie Lescot.
20. May 10, 1950: Paul Eugène Magloire led a coup against Dumarsais Estimé.
21. April 2, 1957: Léon Cantave overthrew Franck Sylvain.
22. June 14, 1957: Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau overthrew Daniel Fignolé.
23. July 28–29, 1958: A coup attempt led by Alix Pasquet against Francois Duvalier failed.
24. February 6, 1986: Jean Claude Duvalier went into exile. He was replaced by the National Governing Council.
25. June 20, 1988: Henri Namphy overthrew Leslie Manigat.
26. September 17, 1988: Prosper Avril overthrew Henri Namphy.
27. September 30, 1991: Raoul Cédras overthrew Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
28. February 5–29, 2004: President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted during his second term.

Hawaii

1. January 17, 1893: A coup d'état against Queen Liliʻuokalani on the island of Oahu by subjects of the Hawaiian Kingdom, United States citizens, and foreign residents residing in Honolulu. A majority of the insurgents were foreigners. They prevailed upon American minister John L. Stevens to call in the U.S. Marines to protect United States' interests, an action that effectively buttressed the rebellion. The revolutionaries established the Republic of Hawaii, but their ultimate goal was the annexation of the islands to the United States, which occurred in 1898.

Honduras

1. May 10, 1827: José Justo Milla overthrew Dionisio de Herrera.
2. October 21, 1956: The military junta led a peaceful military coup against President Julio Lozano Díaz in 1956.
3. October 3, 1963: Coup Oswaldo López Arellano.
4. December 4, 1972: Coup under Oswaldo López Arellano.
5. April 22, 1975: Coup under Juan Alberto Melgar Castro.
6. August 7, 1978: Coup under Policarpo Paz García.
7. June 28, 2009: Manuel Zelaya was overthrown by the Honduran military.

Hungary

1. 1669: An attempt by Hungarian and Croat nobles to overthrow the Habsburgs.
2. March 21–22, 1919: Establishment of the Hungarian Soviet Republic with Mihály Károlyi removed as head of state.
3. August 7, 1919: István Friedrich overthrew the MSZDP government of Gyula Peidl.
4. October 15–16, 1944: Ferenc Szálasi and the Arrow Cross Party, supported by the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS, overthrew Regent Miklós Horthy to prevent him from signing an armistice with the Allied Powers.
5. May 28–31, 1947: Mátyás Rákosi and the Hungarian Communist Party overthrew Ferenc Nagy's government by arresting members of the National Assembly .
6. November 4, 1956: the Soviet Army invaded Hungary and overthrew Imre Nagy, replacing him with János Kádár.

Indonesia

1. July 3, 1946: The Prime Minister, Sutan Sjahrir, was kidnapped by factions within the military opposing the Republic’s negotiations with the Dutch during the Indonesian National Revolution. It ended with the release of Sjahrir and a re-structure of both the Republican government and the army.
2. March 3, 1947: An attempted coup against the Indonesian republican administration in West Sumatra during the Indonesian National Revolution by Islamic militias. The coup failed and its leaders were arrested
3. January 22–23, 1950: A coup d'état by Raymond Westerling's Legion of the Just Ruler (APRA) to capture Bandung and Jakarta, with the aim to overthrow Sukarno's unitary Republic of Indonesia. Westerling's forces succeeded in capturing Bandung in the early hours of January 23, 1950.
4. July 5, 1959: The Presidential Decree of 5 July 1959 was issued by President Sukarno in the face of the inability of the Constitutional Assembly of Indonesia to achieve the two-thirds majority to reimpose the 1945 Constitution. Army chief of staff Abdul Haris Nasution concluded that this would be the only way to bring about the reintroduction of a constitution that paved the way for the military to play a greater role in the running of the state, ushering in the period known as the "guided democracy" (1959–1966).
5. September 30, 1965: A failed coup attempt that is blamed on the Communist Party of Indonesia.
6. March 11, 1966: General Suharto seized power and slowly overthrew President Sukarno until 1967 (see Transition to the New Order).

Iran

Achaemenid Empire

1. 552 BC: Persian Revolt: Cyrus the Great led the Persis to declare independence from and then conquer the Median Empire, establishing the Achaemenid Empire.
2. 522 BC: Darius I's revolt against Bardiya.
3. 338 BC: Assassination of Artaxerxes III and his family by Bagoas. Artaxerxes IV became the new King of Kings.
4. 336 BC: Bagoas kills Artaxerxes IV by poison. Darius III ascends to the throne.

Sassanid Empire

1. 309: Assassination of Adur Narseh by the nobles. His infant brother, Shapur II, became the new King of Kings.
2. 420: The nobles assassinate and depose Yazdegerd I.
3. 488: Sukhra deposes Balash in favor of the shah's nephew, Kavad I.
4. 496: The nobles depose Kavad I and install Jamasp as the new shah of shahs of Iran and Aniran.
5. 590: Coup d'état by Vistahm and Vinduyih against Hormizd IV, in favor of his son, Khosrow II.
6. 590: General Bahram Chobin revolted against the Sassanian government and captured Ctesiphon. Khosrow II fled to Constantinople.
7. 628: Kavad II overthrew his father, Khosrow II.
8. April 27, 639: Siege of Ctesiphon by the military commander Shahrbaraz. King Ardashir III is executed.
9. 631: Rostam Farrokhzad captured Ctesiphon, killed Azarmidokht, and installed Boran as the queen of queens of Iran and Aniran.

Safavid Empire

1. 1732: Nader Shah overthrew Tahmasp II.
2. 1733: Governor of the Kuhgiluyeh's rebels against the Safavid Empire.
3. 1736: Abbas III, the nominal ruler of Iran, is deposed by Nader Shah. This marks the official end of the Safavid dynasty of Iran.

Afsharid dynasty

1. 1744: Beylerbey of Fars province's rebels against Nader Shah.
2. 1747: Nader Shah is assassinated in support of Adil Shah.
3. 1748: Ebrahim Afshar (brother of Adil Shah) defeated and blinded him and took the throne.
4. 1748: Ebrahim Afshar assassinated on Shahrukh Afshar's orders.

Qajar Dynasty

1. 1798: Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar assassinated in support of Sadiq Khan Shaqaqi.
2. 1908: The Majlis were bombared by Vladimir Liakhov in support of Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar.

Pahlavi Iran

1. 1921: Coup d'état by Reza Khan Mirpanj (later Reza Shah Pahlavi) and Zia'eddin Tabatabaee during the reign of Ahmad Shah Qajar.
2. 1953: Coup d'état against Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh in support of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi; sponsored by the CIA and MI6.

Islamic Republic of Iran

1. 1980: A coup d'état by a group of Iranian Armed Forces officers against the newly established Islamic regime failed.

Iraq

1. October 20, 1936: Bakr Sidqi overthrew Yasin al-Hashimi.
2. April 1, 1941: Rashid Ali al-Gaylani overthrew 'Abd al-Ilah with the support of the Axis Powers, leading to the Anglo-Iraqi War.
3. July 14, 1958: Abdul-Karim Qassim overthrew King Faisal II, ending the Hashemite monarchy in Iraq.
4. March 8, 1959: Abd al-Wahab al-Shawaf overthrew premier Abdul-Karim Qassim, and was supported by the United Arab Republic.
5. February 8, 1963: Abdul Salam Arif and Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr overthrew Abdul-Karim Qassim.
6. November 11, 1963: Pro-Nasserist officers of the Iraqi Armed Forces ousted the Ba'ath Party from government.
7. July 17, 1968: Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr overthrew Abdul Rahman Arif, establishing the Ba'athist dictatorship.
8. June 1996: A failed US-backed coup to overthrow Saddam Hussein.

Italy

1. October 28–31, 1922: Fascist coup d'état in which Benito Mussolini and his National Fascist Party's Blackshirt militias attempted to overthrow Prime Minister Luigi Facta with an insurrection in Rome; it was successful when King Victor Emmanuel III refused to allow Facta to declare a state of martial law.
2. July 24, 1943: Coup to remove Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy and replace him with Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Count Dino Grandi and the Grand Council of Fascism voted overwhelmingly to ask King Victor Emmanuel to resume his full constitutional powers and, on the following day, the king summoned Mussolini to his palace and dismissed him
3. 1964: Alleged coup attempted by military groups.
4. December 7–8, 1970: Coup attempt by neo-fascist groups led by Junio Valerio Borghese, a former Italian Royal Navy commander of World War II, failed after the CIA and NATO refused to support it.
5. 1974: A planned coup by former Italian Partisan Edgardo Sogno.

Ivory Coast

1. December 24, 1999: Robert Guéï overthrew Henri Konan Bédie.

Japan

1. Lunar August, 456 AD: Historical texts state that Mayuwa no Ōkimi (ja:眉輪王) assassinated reigning Ōkimi Emperor Ankō (安康天皇) over the alleged killing of his father. According to Nihonshiki, the influential Ōomi Katsuragi no Tsubura was also killed by arson, whereas the Kojiki says he killed himself. This potentially could have been a coup attempt because the two most senior statesmen were targeted and eliminated, nevertheless there is no indication that the plotter wanted to assume the throne, instead Emperor Yuryaku ascended three months later.
2. 479 AD: An attempt by Prince Hoshikawa to gain the throne failed.
3. 498 AD: Ōomi Heguri no Matori takes over Yamato Japan's government in a briefly successful coup upon the death of Emperor Ninken, before being defeated and killed by Otomo no Kanamura, who raised Emperor Buretsu to the throne.

Over a century later, in 632 A.D. the title Ōkimi was posthumously reassigned to the term Tenno. This term is currently equated with Emperor.

1. 645 AD: Soga no Iruka was assassinated in a successful coup, with one of the coup plotters becoming the next Emperor (Taika Reform).
2. 764 AD: A coup, led by Fujiwara no Nakamaro, to overthrow Retired Empress Kōken and the monk Dōkyō failed.
3. 1156: Emperor Go-Shirakawa defeated his rival Jōkō Emperor Sutoku.
4. 1160: The Minamoto clan took up arms against the Taira clan. The Taira clan emerged victorious.
5. 1184: Amidst the Genpei War, Kiso Yoshinaka ambushed Hōjūjidono, confining Emperor Go-Toba and Cloistered Emperor Go-Shirakawa.
6. 1551: Sue Takafusa (later known as Sue Harukata) launched a rebellion against Ōuchi Yoshitaka, hegemon daimyō of western Japan, leading the latter to commit seppuku.
7. 1864–65: The Mito Rebellion of Takeda Kōunsai was a rebellion in the Mito Domain in support of the sonnō jōi policy.
8. 1866–68: A Samurai uprising led to the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the establishment of a "modern" parliamentary, Western-style system under the Meiji era.
9. March 1931: An aborted coup by the Sakurakai to overthrow Prime Minister Osachi Hamaguchi and form a new government was led by Army Minister Kazushige Ugaki.
10. October 21, 1931: An aborted coup by the Sakurakai.
11. May 15, 1932: A failed coup by members of the Imperial Japanese Navy resulted in the assassination of Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi.
12. November 1934: A coup by members of the Imperial Japanese Army failed to achieve a Shōwa Restoration.
13. February 26, 1936: A failed coup was led by the Imperial Way Faction in the Imperial Japanese Army against Prime Minister Keisuke Okada's government.
14. August 14–15, 1945: A coup against the Emperor Hirohito by members of the Japanese War Ministry and the Imperial Guard opposed to surrendering to the Allied Powers at the end of World War II failed after they were unable to convince the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff and the Eastern District Army to join.
15. August 24, 1945: A failed coup by dissidents opposed to surrender was led by Isao Okazaki in Matsue.
16. December 12, 1961: A coup attempt by retired right wing members of the Imperial Japanese Army was aborted through a police raid.
17. November 25, 1970: An coup by author Yukio Mishima, who attempted to convince the Japan Self-Defense Forces to overturn the 1947 Constitution, was aborted.

Jordan

1. 1970: A Palestine Liberation Organization coup attempt against King Hussein failed. King Hussein retaliated with Black September conflict, driving the PLO to Lebanon.
2. 2021: A coup attempt by Prince Hamzah bin Hussein to overthrow his half-brother, King Abdullah II, failed.

Kenya

1. August 1, 1982: An attempted coup was led by Kenya Air Force personnel to overthrow the Daniel arap Moi government. They captured Eastleigh Air Base and parts of Nairobi before collapsing.

Korea, North

1. ca. 1967: Attempt by faction of former anti-Japanese guerrillas was led by Pak Kum-chol to overthrow Kim Il-sung to end the cult of personality, and introduce economic reforms. This led to a crackdown and purges in the Korean Workers' Party, as well as the implementation of the Ten Principles for the Establishment of a Monolithic Ideological System.

Korea, South

1. May 16, 1961: Park Chung Hee overthrew the Second Republic of Korea led by Yun Po-seon and replaced it with the Supreme Council for National Reconstruction.
2. October 17, 1972: President Park Chung Hee led a coup to restore total presidential authority after his party underperformed in elections, creating the Fourth Republic of Korea.
3. December 12, 1979: Major General Chun Doo-hwan of the Defense Security Command arrested Republic of Korea Army Chief of Staff Jeong Seung-hwa and his allies, creating the Fifth Republic of Korea.
4. May 17, 1980: General Chun Doo-Hwan extended martial law, banned political activities, and forced universities to close.

Laos

1. December 25, 1959: A coup by Captain Kong Le established General Phoumi Nosavan's leadership.
2. August 9, 1960: Captain Kong Le overthrew General Phoumi.
3. December 16, 1960: General Phoumi won the counter-coup in the Battle of Vientiane.
4. April 18, 1964: Police General Siho Lamphouthacoul seized power for five days.
5. August 4, 1964: General Phoumi's attempted coup failed.
6. January 31, 1965: Colonel Bounleut Saycocie and General Phoumi's independent attempts both failed.
7. 1966: General Thao Ma's coup by air strike failed.
8. 1973: General Thao Ma's coup via air strike failed.
9. 2007: General Vang Pao's coup failed.

Latvia

1. May 15, 1934: Kārlis Ulmanis dissolved the Saeima (Latvia's parliament) and established a dictatorship.

Lebanon

1. December 31, 1961: A failed coup attempt was conducted by the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party.

Lesotho

1. January 30, 1970: A self-coup was conducted by Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan.
2. January 20, 1986: Justin Metsing Lekhanya overthrew Leabua Jonathan.
3. November 12, 1990: Justin Metsing Lekhanya overthrew King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho.
4. April 30, 1991: Elias Phisoana Ramaema overthrew Justin Metsing Lekhanya.
5. August 30, 2014: A failed coup attempt.

Liberia

1. October 26, 1871: President Edward James Roye was deposed by the people of Monrovia.
2. April 12, 1980: Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe overthrew President William R. Tolbert, Jr.
3. September 9, 1990: Prince Johnson overthrew President Samuel K. Doe.

Libya

1. September 1, 1969: Muammar Gaddafi overthrew King Idris I of Libya and established a republic.
2. 1993: A coup was attempted against Muammar Gaddafi.
3. April 17, 2013: A Libyan coup against Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was attempted by Muammar Gaddafi loyalists.
4. October 10, 2013: a second attempt Libyan coup was led by Abdel-Moneim al-Hour against Prime Minister Ali Zeidan.
5. April and October 2014: Coup against Prime Minister Ali Zeidan (the first coup) and against Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani (the second coup) by Major General Khalifa Haftar failed.
6. October 14, 2016: A failed coup against Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj was led by ex-Prime Minister Khalifa al-Ghawil.

Liechtenstein

1. November 7, 1918: Wilhelm Beck, Fritz Walser, and Martin Ritter overthrew the government of Leopold Freiherr von Imhof and installed the Provisional Executive Committee.
2. March 24, 1939: Liechtenstein Nazi Movement launched an unsuccessful coup to provoke a possible annexation by Germany.

Lithuania

There are estimated to be over 10 unsuccessful coups during the period of 1919–1940 in Lithuania.

1. August to September 1919: A failed attempt by Polish Chief of State Józef Piłsudski to overthrow the existing Lithuanian government of Prime Minister Mykolas Sleževičius, and install a pro-Polish cabinet that would agree to a union with Poland.
2. December 17, 1926: President Kazys Grinius was overthrown and Antanas Smetona became the head of state.
3. September 9, 1927: An attempt to overthrow the Lithuanian Nationalist Union and to re-establish the previous government failed.
4. June 6–7, 1934: A failed coup d'état was led by the fascist Iron Wolf.
5. July 31 to September 22, 1993: This was a stand-off that occurred in summer 1993 in Lithuania near Kaunas between a group of about 150 men from the Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces (then known as Savanoriškoji krašto apsaugos tarnyba or SKAT) and the Lithuanian government.

Luxembourg

1. November 1918 to January 1919: A series of riots and mutinies failed to overthrow the Luxembourg government due to lack of support.

Madagascar

Kingdom of Madagascar (Imerina)

1. May 12, 1863: Prime Minister Rainivoninahitriniony successfully deposed king Radama II, who was (supposedly) killed and succeeded by his wife, Queen Rasoherina.
2. March 27, 1868: An attempted coup to reinstate Rainivoninahitriniony as prime minister failed.

Republic of Madagascar

1. October 11, 1972: Gabriel Ramanantsoa overthrew Philibert Tsiranana.
2. February 5, 1975: Richard Ratsimandrava overthrew Gabriel Ramanantsoa.
3. November 18, 2006: An alleged Coup attempt took place when retired army General Andrianafidisoa, also known as Fidy (and a previous Director General of OMNIS), declared military rule.
4. March 17, 2009: Andry Rajoelina overthrew Marc Ravalomanana.

Maldives

1. 1980: Former president Nassir, along with his brother in law Ahmed Naseem, the health minister Mohammed Mustafa Hussain and a leading businessman Khua Mohammed Yusuf, allegedly hired a group of nine former members of Britain's elite Special Air Service commandos and sent them to assassinate President Gayoom. The mercenaries used Sri Lanka as their base and carried out several reconnaissance trips. They were also provided arms to carry out their mission and promised an inducement of $60,000 each. The attempt was called off by the SAS members because they started having second thoughts.
2. 1988: Abdullah Luthufi, assisted by PLOTE, staged a coup to overthrow the government of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. They seized control of the capital until the Indian Navy retook the city from the rebels.

Mali

1. November 19, 1968: Moussa Traoré overthrew Modibo Keïta.
2. March 26, 1991: Amadou Toumani Touré overthrew Moussa Traoré.
3. March 22, 2012: The military overthrew Amadou Toumani Touré.
4. August 18, 2020: The military overthrew Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta.
5. 2021: The military overthrew Bah N'daw.
6. May 17, 2022: Malian Military Junta claimed to have stopped a coup attempt led by an "unnamed NATO country."

Mauritania

1. July 10, 1978: Mustafa Ould Salek overthrew Moktar Ould Daddah .
2. April 6, 1979: Ahmed Ould Bouceif and Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla overthrew Mustafa Ould Salek .
3. January 4, 1980: Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla overthrew Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly .
4. December 12, 1984: Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya overthrew Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla .
5. August 3, 2005: Ely Ould Mohamed Vall overthrew Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya .
6. August 6, 2008: Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz overthrew Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

Mexico

Prior to independence

1. 1799: Criollo civil servants plotted to overthrow the Spanish Empire and establish an independent republic; regarded as a precursor to the War of Mexican Independence.
2. 1808: Gabriel J. de Yermo overthrew the viceroy of New Spain José de Iturrigaray.

Mexican Empire

1. May 18, 1822: Regent Agustín de Iturbide performed a self-coup with army support, proclaiming himself emperor. The Congress, upon which this proclamation was imposed, was dissolved after a few months.
2. 1823: Antonio López de Santa Anna launched a republican rebellion, culminating in the abdication of Agustín I and the end of the First Mexican Empire.

Mexican Republic

1. December 1827: A coup attempt by Vice President Nicolás Bravo against Guadalupe Victoria failed.
2. 1828: Vicente Guerrero led a successful coup against President-elect Manuel Gómez Pedraza.
3. December 1829: Vice President Anastasio Bustamante overthrew Vicente Guerrero.
4. 1832: Santa Anna's led his first coup against Anastasio Bustamante.
5. 1834: Antonio López de Santa Anna led a self-coup by dissolving the Congress. He removed his vice president, Valentín Gómez Farías.
6. 1841: Santa Anna's led his second coup against Anastasio Bustamante.
7. December 6, 1844: Congressional forces overthrew Valentín Canalizo and Antonio López de Santa Anna, handing the presidency over to José Joaquín de Herrera.
8. December 30, 1845: Mariano Paredes overthrew José Joaquín de Herrera.
9. August 4, 1846: José Mariano Salas overthrew Vice President Nicolás Bravo and the absent President Mariano Paredes.
10. March 1847: Antonio López de Santa Anna overthrew Valentín Gómez Farías.
11. 1852–1853: Santanistas launched a rebellion that overthrew Mariano Arista.
12. 1854–1855: Juan Álvarez overthrew Antonio López de Santa Anna.
13. December 17, 1857: Ignacio Comonfort conducts a self-coup by nullifying the 1857 Constitution.
14. October 19, 1871: A coup attempt against Benito Juárez fails.
15. 1876: Porfirio Díaz overthrew Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada.

Revolutionary period

1. 1911: Francisco I. Madero led a coup against Porfirio Díaz (and Francisco León de la Barra).
2. February 19, 1913: Victoriano Huerta overthrew Francisco I. Madero.
3. May 21, 1920: Sonoran generals Álvaro Obregón, Plutarco Elías Calles, and Adolfo de la Huerta launched a rebellion that culminated in the overthrow and death of Venustiano Carranza.
4. 1929: A coup attempt by José Gonzalo Escobar against Emilio Portes Gil and Plutarco Elías Calles failed.
5. 1938: A coup attempt by Saturnino Cedillo against Lázaro Cárdenas failed.
6. 1940: Juan Andreu Almazán attempted a coup to prevent the inauguration of president-elect Manuel Ávila Camacho.

Moldova

1. February 13, 2023: There are allegations of a Russia-backed coup attempt.

Montenegro

1. October 16, 2016: There was an attempted coup by opposition and Russian agents against the government of Milo Đukanović on the day of parliamentary election.

Morocco

1. July 10, 1971: A coup attempt by M'hamed Ababou and Mohamed Medbouh against Hassan II of Morocco failed.
2. August 16, 1972: A coup by Mohamed Oufkir against Hassan II of Morocco failed.

Myanmar (Burma)

1. 1837: King Bagyidaw was deposed by a coup led by his brother Tharrawaddy Min.
2. 1853: King Pagan Min was deposed by a coup led by his brother Mindon Min.
3. October 1958: A split within the AFPFL threatened to provoke a coup from field officers. To settle the situation, U Nu invited the military to form a caretaker government. From 1958 to 1960, the caretaker government under General Ne Win was formed. The caretaker government initially appeared to be interested in building state capacity. It reduced corruption, improved bureaucratic efficiency, and managed to deal with the pocket armies.
4. March 1, 1962: Ne Win overthrew U Nu.
5. September 18, 1988: Saw Maung overthrew Maung Maung Kha.
6. February 1, 2021: Min Aung Hlaing overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi.

Nepal

1. 1559: Drabya Shah killed the Khadka, Raja by his own hand with a sword and began the rule of his dynasty under Shahas.
2. October 31, 1846: A political massacre organized by Jung Bahadur Rana reduced the Shah Monarch to a figurehead and made Prime Minister and other powers hereditary to Ranas.
3. 1882: Chautariya Colonel Ambar Bikram Shah and his Gorkhali aide attempted to assassinate Ranodip Singh. They failed and were killed in Teku by the Ranas.
4. November 2, 1885: Ranodip Singh Kunwar was assassinated by Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana.
5. December 15, 1960: King Mahendra dismissed the parliament of Nepal, arrested then-Prime Minister B. P. Koirala, and outlawed political parties.
6. February 1, 2005: King Gyanendra dismissed the parliament of Nepal and declared a state of emergency, assuming direct rule.

Netherlands

Habsburg Netherlands

1. July 24, 1577: The capture of the Namur citadel by Don Juan of Austria has been considered a coup against the States-General of the Netherlands.
2. October 28, 1577: A coup was led by radical Calvinists Jan van Hembyse and François van Ryhove against the stadtholder of Flanders, Philippe III de Croÿ (Duke of Aarschot). They founded the Calvinist Republic of Ghent.
3. September 7, 1578: A coup d'état was led by Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg against the Hof van Gelre en Zutphen.
4. January 23, 1579: A coup d'état was led by Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg and four Gueldrian noblemen against the Hof van Gelre en Zutphen.

Dutch Republic

1. August 1618: Coup d'état was led by Maurice, Prince of Orange.
2. July–August 1650: Attack on Amsterdam and imprisonment of rival regenten was led by William II, Prince of Orange.
3. August 20, 1672: An Orangist coup was carried out against the Loevestein government.

Batavian Republic

1. January 22, 1798: Uitvoerend Bewind led a coup against the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic.
2. June 12, 1798: Herman Willem Daendels led a coup against Pieter Vreede.
3. September 19, 1801: Napoleon Bonaparte led a coup against Uitvoerend Bewind.

Kingdom of the Netherlands

1. November 27, 1856: William III of the Netherlands, the reigning Grand Duke of Luxembourg, undertook a reactionary revision of the Luxembourg constitution.
2. November 9–14, 1918: A failed coup attempt was led by Troelstra against the Dutch government.

Nicaragua

1. 1856: A coup was led by William Walker.
2. June 6–9, 1936: Anastasio Somoza García overthrew Juan Bautista Sacasa.
3. 1947 by Anastasio Somoza García led a coup in favor of Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa against Leonardo Argüello Barreto.

Niger

1. April 15, 1974: Seyni Kountché overthrew Hamani Diori.
2. January 27, 1996: Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara overthrew Mahamane Ousmane.
3. April 9, 1999: Daouda Malam Wanké overthrew Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara.
4. February 18, 2010: Salou Djibo overthrew Mamadou Tandja.
5. March 31, 2021: An attempt by Captain Sani Saley Gourouza to overthrow Mahamadou Issoufou failed.
6. July 26, 2023: Mohamed Bazoum is detained.

Nigeria

Main article: Military coups in Nigeria

1. January 15–16, 1966: Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu overthrew Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.
2. July 29, 1966: Yakubu Gowon overthrew Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi.
3. July 29, 1975: Murtala Mohammed overthrew Yakubu Gowon.
4. February 13, 1976: Buka Suka Dimka led a failed coup that resulted in the death of the head of state Murtala Mohammed.
5. December 31, 1983: Muhammadu Buhari overthrew Shehu Shagari.
6. August 27, 1985: Ibrahim Babangida overthrew Muhammadu Buhari.
7. April 22, 1990: Gideon Orkar failed to topple president Ibrahim Babangida.
8. November 17, 1993: Sani Abacha overthrew Ernest Shonekan.

Norway

1. 1537: King Christian III overthrew Regent Olav Engelbrektsson and the Rigsraad, leading to the Norwegian Reformation, and forcibly implemented a hereditary monarchy.
2. April 9, 1940: Vidkun Quisling announced a fascist government by radio broadcast in an attempt to overthrow the legally elected Labour government of Johan Nygaardsvold while Nazi Germany invaded the country. His coup was rejected as illegitimate by King Haakon VII and Quisling would hold little power during the Nazi occupation.

Oman

1. July 23, 1970: Qaboos bin Said overthrew his father Said bin Taimur during the Dhofar Rebellion.

Panama

1. January 3, 1931:A coup was led by Arnulfo Arias Madrid and Harmodio Arias Madrid against Florencio Harmodio Arosemena.
2. October 9, 1941: A coupe was led by Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango against Arnulfo Arias Madrid.
3. May 9, 1951: A coup was led by Colonel José Antonio Remón Cantera against Arnulfo Arias Madrid.
4. October 11, 1968: A coup was led by Omar Torrijos against President Arnulfo Arias Madrid.
5. 1989 coup attempt: Moises Giroldi attempted to overthrow President Manuel Antonio Noriega to prevent the U.S. invasion of Panama.

Pakistan

Main article: Military coups in Pakistan

1. March 9, 1951: Major General Akbar Khan led a coup against the Muslim League government of Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan in protest of the government's acceptance of a ceasefire in the First Indo-Pakistani War. This was the first attempted military coup in Pakistan's history.
2. 1953: A constitutional coup was launched by Malik Ghulam Muhammad.
3. October 27, 1958: Field Marshal Ayub Khan overthrew Iskander Mirza in response to his suspension of the Pakistani Constitution and declaration of martial law.
4. March 25, 1969: A coup was by General Yahya Khan. Ayub Khan resigned.
5. 1973: A coup to overthrow Zulfikar Ali Bhutto failed.
6. July 4, 1977: General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and the Pakistan National Alliance overthrew Zulfikar Ali Bhutto after a contested general election.
7. March 1980: The first coup attempt to overthrow Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq failed.
8. 1984: The second coup attempt to overthrow Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq failed.
9. 1995: A group of Pakistani Armed Forces officers, led by Zahirul Islam Abbasi, plotted to overthrow the Pakistan People's Party government of Benazir Bhutto.
10. October 12, 1999: General Pervez Musharraf overthrew the PML-N government Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and suspended the writ of the Constitution due to Sharif's intent to relieve him as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Papua New Guinea

1. March 16 1990: Coup attempt by police commissioner Paul Tohian against Prime Minister Rabbie Namaliu was caused by the situation in Bougainville and Tohian being drunk.
2. January 26 2012: A coup attempt was led by retired colonel Yaura Sasa against disputed Prime Minister Peter O'Neill. This coup occurred amid the Papuan constitutional crisis.

Paraguay

1. September 4, 1880: Bernardino Caballero was appointed as interim president by Congress after the death of the President Cándido Bareiro and the forced resignation by a coup of Vice president Adolfo Saguier.
2. June 9, 1894: Juan Bautista Egusquiza overthrew Juan Gualberto González. Congress appointed Marcos Morínigo as interim president.
3. January 9, 1902: Bernardino Caballero overthrew Emilio Aceval. Congress appointed Andrés Héctor Carvallo as interim president.
4. December 19, 1904: Juan Antonio Escurra was deposed. Congress appointed Juan Bautista Gaona as interim president.
5. December 9, 1905: Juan Bautista Gaona was deposed. Congress appointed Cecilio Báez as interim president.
6. July 4, 1908: Benigno Ferreira was deposed.
7. January 17, 1911: Albino Jara overthrew Manuel Gondra.
8. January 14, 1912: Marcos Caballero Codas, Mario Uscher, and Alfredo Aponte overthrew Liberato Marcial Rojas.
9. February 28, 1912: Liberato Marcial Rojas was deposed. Congress appointed Pedro Pablo Peña as interim president Congress.
10. March 22, 1912: Pedro Pablo Peña was deposed. Congress appointed Emiliano González Navero as interim president.
11. February 17, 1936: Rafael Franco overthrew Eusebio Ayala.
12. August 13, 1937: Félix Paiva overthrew Rafael Franco.
13. February 18, 1940: José Félix Estigarribia conducts a self-coup.
14. June 3, 1948: Higinio Morínigo was deposed. Congress appointed Juan Manuel Frutos as interim president.
15. January 30, 1949: Juan Natalicio González was deposed. Congress appointed Raimundo Rolón appointed as interim president.
16. February 26, 1949: Felipe Molas López overthrew Raimundo Rolón.
17. September 11, 1949: Felipe Molas López was deposed. Congress appointed Federico Chaves as interim president.
18. May 4, 1954: Alfredo Stroessner overthrew Federico Chaves. Congress appointed Tomás Romero Pereira as interim president.
19. February 3, 1989: Andrés Rodríguez and the Paraguayan Army overthrew Alfredo Stroessner.
20. April 22–25, 1996: General Lino Oviedo attempted to depose Juan Carlos Wasmoy.
21. 2000: An attempted coup against Luis Ángel González Macchi failed.

Peru

Main article: List of Peruvian coups d'état

1. 1823: José de la Riva-Agüero led a coup against the Supreme Governing Junta of Peru.
2. 1829: Agustín Gamarra led a coup against José de La Mar.
3. 1835: Felipe Santiago Salaverry led a coup against Luis José de Orbegoso.
4. 1842: Juan Crisóstomo Torrico led a coup against Manuel Menéndez.
5. 1865: Mariano Ignacio Prado led a coup against Pedro Diez Canseco.
6. 1872: Tomás Gutiérrez led a coup against José Balta.
7. 1879: Nicolás de Piérola led a coup against Mariano Ignacio Prado.
8. 1909: Carlos de Piérola led a coup against Augusto B. Leguía.
9. 1914: Óscar Benavides led a coup against Guillermo Billinghurst.
10. 1919: Augusto B. Leguía y Salcedo led a coup against José Pardo y Barreda.
11. 1930: Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro led a coup against Augusto B. Leguía y Salcedo.
12. 1948: Manuel A. Odría led a coup against José Luis Bustamante y Rivero.
13. 1962: Ricardo Pérez Godoy led a coup against Manuel Prado Ugarteche.
14. 1968: Juan Velasco Alvarado led a coup against Fernando Belaúnde Terry.
15. February 1975: A coup attempt against Juan Velasco Alvarado failed.
16. August 1975: Francisco Morales-Bermúdez led a coup against Juan Velasco Alvarado.
17. April 1992: Alberto Fujimori conducts a self-coup.
18. November 1992: Jaime Salinas Sedó led a coup against Alberto Fujimori.
19. 2000: Ollanta Humala led a coup against Alberto Fujimori.
20. 2005: A coup attempt led by Antauro Humala against Alejandro Toledo fails.
21. 2022: Pedro Castillo attemts a self-coup.

Philippines

From the 1565 Spanish conquest until 1898, there were more than 20 failed Philippine revolts against Spain, including the Chinese revolts (1603, 1662), Dagohoy rebellion (1744–1825), Silang rebellion (1762–1763), and Pule revolt (1840–1841), all crushed by the Spanish colonial government. Most of these were due to redress personal grievances (land use, unjust taxation, forced labor) and were not aimed to overthrow the government in Manila. The following list includes plots that did aim to overthrow the national government.

Prior to Independence

1. 1587–1588: The failed Tondo Conspiracy was crushed by the Spanish colonial government.
2. October 11, 1719: Successful overthrow and assassination of Governor-General Fernando Manuel de Bustillo Bustamante y Rueda by supporters of Manila Archbishop Francisco de la Cuesta.
3. June 1, 1823: A failed revolt by Andrés Novales and Creole members of the Spanish Army was crushed by the Spanish colonial government.
4. 1828: The failed Palmero Conspiracy was thwarted by the Spanish colonial government.
5. January 20, 1872: The failed Cavite mutiny was crushed by the Spanish colonial government.
6. December 5, 1896: The failed Manila mutiny, crushed by the Spanish colonial government.

Commonwealth of the Philippines

1. May 2, 1935: The failed Sakdalista Rebellion against United States was crushed by the American colonial government.

Third Republic

1. 1942–1954: The failed Hukbalahap Rebellion against Japan and, later, the government of the Philippines, ended with the surrender of the Huks.

Marcos Era

1. May 21, 1967: A failed overthrow by Lapiang Malaya of the Third Philippine Republic was led by President Ferdinand Marcos. It ended with government forces killing and arresting the participants.
2. January 26 to March 17, 1970: A series of massive protests are carried out against Ferdinand Marcos.
3. September 21, 1972: Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law in a self-coup.
4. February 22–25, 1986: The People Power Revolution, a civilian-backed military coup led by Juan Ponce Enrile and Fidel V. Ramos overthrew Marcos as president.

Fifth Republic

1. July 6–8, 1986: A failed coup attempt, by former senator and vice presidential candidate Arturo Tolentino together with 490 armed soldiers and 15,000 civilians loyal to former President Ferdinand Marcos, was crushed by the Philippine government.
2. November 11, 1986: A failed coup attempt, led by Juan Ponce Enrile, ended with the removal of Enrile and re-organization of her cabinet.
3. January 27–29, 1987: A failed coup attempt, led by Colonel Oscar Canlas, ended with one rebel soldier killed, and 35 others injured.
4. April 18, 1987: A failed coup attempt ended with one rebel soldier killed.
5. July 13, 1987: An alleged coup attempt ended with four officers being sued in military court.
6. August 28–29, 1987: A failed coup attempt, led by Colonel Gregorio Honasan, was crushed by the Philippine government.
7. December 1–9, 1989: A failed coup attempt, led by Colonel Gregorio Honasan together with soldiers loyal to former President Marcos, was crushed by the Philippine government.
8. March 4, 1990: Government troops under Brigadier General Oscar Florendo fought against rebel forces led by suspended Cagayan Governor Rodolfo "Agi" Aguinaldo and were crushed by the Philippine government.
9. October 4–6, 1990: Mutinying soldiers staged a dawn raid on an army base in Mindanao, and were defeated by the government.
10. January 17–20, 2001: A four-day political protest, held in EDSA, peacefully overthrew the government of President Joseph Estrada
11. April 25 to May 1, 2001: A seven-day political protest was held. also in EDSA, in a failed attempt to bring Joseph Estrada back to power.
12. July 27, 2003: A failed coup attempt saw the surrender of mutinous soldiers after taking over the Oakwood condominiums in the Makati Central Business District.
13. February 24, 2006: A state of emergency was declared to forestall alleged coup against the government
14. November 29, 2007: Mutinous soldiers occupied the Peninsula Manila Hotel, but later surrendered to the government.

Alleged plots that have not been attempted yet:

1. 2018–2021: Allegations of ouster plot against President Rodrigo Duterte were first publicized by the military. The allegations mainly implicated the opposition figures and the critics of the Duterte administration of involvement in the plot.

Rebellions that have not yet led to the point where the rebels had a chance of overthrowing the government:

1. 1565–1898: Spain failed to subjugate the Moros until the cession of the Spanish East Indies to the United States.
2. 1899–1913: The United States defeated the Moros and annexed their territories to the Philippine Islands.
3. 1969–2019: The Tripoli Agreement with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in 1976, Final Peace Agreement with the MNLF in 1996, peace deal with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in 2014, and established the Bangsamoro in 2019.
4. 1969–present: The ongiong communist rebellion in the Philippines is primarily led by the New People's Army (NPA). NPA breakaway groups have had peace deals with the Philippine government: with the Cordillera People's Liberation Army in 1986, and with the Revolutionary Proletarian Army in 2000.

Attempts to wrest control of a chamber of Congress are plots, not coups, because the do not the definition of "removal of an existing government from power" because the head of state and government are not at stake (The Philippines uses the presidential system of government with separation of powers). There had been several instances of this, the latest of which were in 2020 in the House of Representatives and in 2018 in the Senate. One example was in March to April 1952 when the Senate presidency changed three times.

Poland

1. 1919: National Democratic attempt was led by Marian Januszajtis-Żegota and Prince Eustachy Sapieha to overthrow Jędrzej Moraczewski and Józef Piłsudski's left-wing government.
2. May 1926: Józef Piłsudski overthrew the Chjeno-Piast government of President Stanisław Wojciechowski and Prime Minister Wincenty Witos, appointing Kazimierz Bartel as the new Prime Minister and beginning the Sanation regime.
3. December 13, 1981: General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law and banned the Solidarity union, forming the Military Council of National Salvation.

Portugal

1. 1820: This Portuguese political revolution began with a military insurrection in the city of Porto that quickly and peacefully spread to the rest of the country. The Revolution resulted in the return in 1821 of the Portuguese court to Portugal from Brazil, where it had fled during the Peninsular War, and initiated a constitutional period in which the 1822 Constitution was ratified and implemented.
2. April 1824: This absolutist political revolt that took place in the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves.
3. November 1836: Queen Maria II of Portugal and her husband Ferdinand II attempted a coup to remove the liberal government established by the September Revolution and reinstate the Constitutional Charter of 1826.
4. 1837: This was an unsuccessful Chartist military coup in Portugal against the Setembrist government of António Dias de Oliveira led by marshals Saldanha and Terceira.
5. 1842: Coup of Costa Cabral.
6. October 6, 1846: A palace coup by which queen Maria II deposed the government presided over by Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela, that had been installed on May 20 that year as a result of the Revolution of Maria da Fonte.
7. 1846–1847: The Patuleia occurred after the Revolution of Maria da Fonte. It was caused by the nomination, as a result of the palace coup of October 6, 1846, known as the "Emboscada," to set up a clearly Cartista government presided over by marshal João Oliveira e Daun, Duque de Saldanha.
8. 1851: Revolt of João Carlos de Saldanha (beginning of Regeneração).
9. July 22, 1872: A coup by Caetano Gaspar de Almeida e Noronha against Fontes Pereira de Melo failed.
10. October 5, 1910: A republican coup d'état deposed King Manuel II of Portugal and established the Portuguese First Republic.
11. May 14, 1915: An uprising overthrew Pimenta de Castro's government.
12. December 1917: A coup d'état led to Sidónio Pais' dictatorship.
13. October 1921: A coup led António Granjo's government to resign, but President António José de Almeida resisted appointing the rebels' government.
14. April 18, 1925: The military failed to carry out a coup.
15. July 19, 1925: A Revolt against Mendes Cabecadas failed.
16. May 28, 1926: General Manuel Gomes da Costa and the Portuguese Armed Forces overthrew the First Portuguese Republic, establishing the Ditadura Nacional.
17. February 3, 1927: A failed coup attempt was led by Mendes dos Reis, Agatão Lança, Câmara Lente, and Filipe Mendes.
18. Jul 20, 1928: A failed coup attempt was led by Liga de Paris and Major Sarmento Beires.
19. August 26, 1931: A failed coup attempt was led by Hélder Ribeiro, Utra Machado, Jaime Batista, Dias Antunes, and Sarmento Beires.
20. 1974: The Movimento das Forças Armadas overthrew the Estado Novo Military dictatorship led by President Américo Tomás, founding the National Salvation Junta.
21. March 11, 1975: A coup led by right wing army units failed.
22. 1975: After the Carnation Revolution a coup led by far-left militants who hoped to establish a Communist government in Portugal failed.

Qatar

1. February 22, 1972: Heir-apparent Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani deposed Emir Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani.
2. June 27, 1995: Heir-apparent Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposed Emir Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani.
3. February 14, 1996: Hamad bin Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani attempted and failed to depose Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.

Romania

1. 1866: The "monstrous coalition" of Liberals and Conservatives conducted a coup against Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza.
2. 1938: King Carol II of Romania led a coup against Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and the Iron Guard.
3. 1940: Horia Sima and Ion Antonescu overthrew Carol II of Romania and created the National Legionary State.
4. 1941: The Iron Guard unsuccessfully revolted against Ion Antonescu, leading to the suppression of the Iron Guard and a major pogrom in Bucharest.
5. 1944: King Michael I of Romania and Constantin Sănătescu removed Ion Antonescu's government from power due to the Soviet invasion of Romania.
6. 1947: Prime Minister Petru Groza forced King Michael I to abdicate, forming the Socialist Republic of Romania.
7. 1984: Coup attempt against Nicolae Ceausescu was led by the army.
8. 1989: Ion Iliescu and his National Salvation Front overthrew Nicolae Ceasescu alongside civil unrest and a series of uprisings, ending the Romanian Communist Party's rule.

Russia

Russian Empire

1. 1741: Elizabeth Petrovna overthrew her infant cousin Ivan VI of Russia and his mother Anna Leopoldovna.
2. 1762: A coup by Catherine the Great forced the abdication of Peter III of Russia.
3. December 1825: The Decembrist revolt attempted to depose Tsar Nicholas I of Russia in favor of his brother, Grand Duke Konstantin by military coup.
4. June 1907: A self-coup was carried out by Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin, with the dissolution of the Second Duma.
5. March 15, 1917: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was forced to abdicate in favor of the Russian Provisional Government, ending the Romanov dynasty.

Revolutionary Russia

1. September 1917: Lavr Kornilov attempted to march into Petrograd, overthrow the Provisional Government, dissolve the Petrograd Soviet and possibly establish a military dictatorship after being appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army by Alexander Kerensky. The coup failed because of a lack of support and mass resistance, but it eroded the Provisional Government's legitimacy and revived the Bolsheviks. It also resulted in the provisional government formally abolishing the Russian monarchy and proclaiming the Russian Republic.
2. November 7, 1917: The Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and forms the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, leading to the Russian Civil War and the formation of the Soviet Union.
3. 1918: An attempt by Sidney Reilly et al. to remove the Bolsheviks from power failed.
4. August 2, 1918: Captain Georgi Chaplin deposed the Bolshevik government of Arkhangelsk, establishing the Supreme Administration of the Northern Region, led by Nikolai Tchaikovsky.
5. September 6, 1918: Captain Georgi Chaplin attempted a second coup in Arkhangelsk, dispatching Popular Socialists' Cabinet to Solovetsky Islands, but his coup fails because of a lack of support and mass resistance.
6. November 18, 1918: Admiral Alexander Kolchak deposed the Omsk Directory, then headed by Nikolai Avksentiev, and proclaimed himself Supreme Ruler of Russia.
7. May 26, 1921: White army coup established Provisional Priamurye Government.

Soviet Union

1. June 1957: The "Anti-Party Group" unsuccessfully attempted to remove Nikita Khrushchev from power.
2. October 13, 1964: Nikita Khrushchev was forced to resign, handing power to Leonid Brezhnev.
3. August 19–21, 1991: A group of Soviet Communist Party hardliners form the State Committee on the State of Emergency attempted to overthrow President Mikhail Gorbachev to reverse his reforms. The coup was suppressed by RSFSR President Boris Yeltsin, weakening the Communist Party's authority and accelerating the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Russian Federation

1. September 21 to October 4, 1993: Russian President Boris Yeltsin, aided by the Russian Armed Forces, extralegally dissolved the Supreme Soviet and suspended the constitution in response to impeachment proceedings against him.

Rwanda

1. December 1896: A royal coup overthrew Mibambwe IV Rutarindwa and replaced him with Yuhi V Musinga.
2. January 28, 1961: The monarchy in Rwanda, then a part of the Belgian mandate of Ruanda-Urundi, was abolished and replaced with a republican political system.
3. July 5, 1973: Juvénal Habyarimana overthrew Grégoire Kayibanda.

São Tomé and Príncipe

1. March 8, 1988: Afonso dos Santos failed to overthrow Manuel Pinto da Costa.
2. August 15, 1995: Manuel Quintas de Almeida overthrew Miguel Trovoada for six days.
3. July 16, 2003: Fernando Pereira (major) overthrew Fradique de Menezes for seven days.
4. November 24–25, 2022: A few men, including Delfim Neves, president of the outgoing National Assembly, allegedly tried to overthrow the government.

Saudi Arabia

1. November 1964: At the request of Crown Prince Faisal (Ibn Saud's third son), his brother Muhammad bin Abdulaziz (Ibn Saud's fourth son) led a palace coup that ousted King Saud (Ibn Saud's second son), making Faisal king.
2. 1969: Members of the Royal Saudi Air Force, inspired by the Free Officers Movement in Libya, attempted to overthrow King Faisal.

San Marino

1. 1933: A failed coup was led by Antonio Canepa against the fascist regime of Giuliano Gozi.
2. 1957: A quasi-coup led to the coexistence of two governments for a month.

Scotland

1. 1688: William III of Orange's invaded England and Scotland at the invitation of the country's powerful Protestants, deposing the Catholic James II of England and VII of Scotland.

Serbia

1. 1842: Milan Obrenovic III was overthrown, resulting in the succession of the House of Karađorđević to the Serbian throne.
2. 1858: Prince Alexander Karađorđević of Serbia was overthrown by Milan Obrenovic I, restoring the Obrenovic dynasty.
3. May 28–29, 1903: This coup resulted in the assassination of King Alexander I and his consort, Queen Draga, resulting in the extinction of the Obrenović dynasty that had ruled Serbia since the middle of the 19th century. A group of Royal Serbian Army officers led by Captain Dragutin Dimitrijević (Apis) organized the assassination. After the May Coup, the throne passed to King Peter I of the Karađorđević dynasty.

Seychelles

1. June 5, 1977: France-Albert René overthrew James Mancham.
2. November 25, 1981: South African mercenaries attempted to replace France-Albert René with former president James Mancham
3. 1986: There was a series of coup attempts against President René led by the Seychelles Minister of Defence, Ogilvy Berlouis. Operation Flowers are Blooming was the name of an operation by the Indian Navy to help avert a threatened coup against the government of President France-Albert René.

Sierra Leone

1. March 21, 1967: David Lansana overthrew Siaka Stevens
2. April 19, 1968: John Amadu Bangura overthrew Andrew Juxon-Smith
3. April 29, 1992: Valentine Strasser overthrew Joseph Saidu Momoh
4. January 16, 1996: Julius Maada Bio overthrew Valentine Strasser
5. May 25, 1997: Johnny Paul Koroma overthrew Ahmed Tejan Kabbah
6. July 31, 2023: Sierra Leone police arrested 19 people, including fourteen serving personnel of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces, two officers of the Sierra Leone Police and one retired chief superintendent of police who were allegedly planning a coup between August 7 and 10. In addition, five military officers and three police officers were subject to a search and capture warrant.
7. November 26, 2023: an attempted coup involving attacks on barracks and a prison, resulting in the death of 19 people. The incident resulted in the arrest of 13 officers and 1 civilian.

South Africa

1. 2002: A failed plot by white supremacists linked to Boeremag to overthrow the African National Congress government. The conspiracy included an assassination attempt on former president Nelson Mandela and bomb attacks.

South African bantustans

Transkei

1. December 30, 1987: Bantu Holomisa overthrew Stella Sigcau.
2. November 22, 1990: A bloody attempted coup led by Colonel Craig Duli is defeated by the loyalist forces of General Bantu Holomisa.

Bophuthatswana

1. February 10, 1988: A short-lived coup that installed Rocky Malebane-Metsing as president of Bophuthatswana is defeated by intervention by the South African Defence Force, which reinstates Lucas Mangope to the position.
2. March 11, 1994: Lucas Mangope was overthrown by mutinying Bophuthatswana Defence Force forces supported by the South African Defence Force. Bophuthatswana, a bantustan established during apartheid, was reincorporated into South Africa.

Venda

1. April 5, 1990: Gabriel Ramushwana overthrew Frank Ravele

Ciskei

1. March 4, 1990: Oupa Gqozo and the Ciskei Defense Force overthrow Lennox Sebe.

Solomon Islands

1. June 5th, 2000: Malaita Eagle Force overthrew Prime Minister Bartholomew Ulufa'alu

Somalia

1. December, 1961: an attempt by army officers to restore the independence of Somaliland fails.
2. October 21, 1969: Muhammad Siad Barre overthrew Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein
3. April 9, 1978 failed coup attempt against Muhammad Siad Barre.
4. January 26, 1991: Mohammed Farrah Aidid and the United Somali Congress overthrow Muhammad Siad Barre, beginning the Somali Civil War.

Spain

Visigothic Kingdom

1. 603: by General Witerico against king Liuva II
2. 631: by Duke Sisenando against King Suintila
3. 642: Tulga was overthrown by Chindasvinto
4. 692: Égica was briefly overthrown by Suniefredo

Kingdom of Spain

1. 1814: Absolutist pronunciamiento of Fernando VII and Francisco Javier de Elío
2. 1815: failed liberal pronunciamiento of Juan Díaz Porlier at A Coruña
3. 1820: successful liberal pronunciamiento of Rafael del Riego, start of the Trienio Liberal
4. 1822: failed absolutist coup by the Royal Guard of Fernando VII
5. 1831: failed liberal pronunciamiento of Manuel de Torrijos
6. 1835: liberal pronunciamiento of Cordero y de Quesada
7. 1836: successful liberal mutiny of La Granja de San Ildefonso
8. 1841: failed Moderate pronunciamiento
9. 1843: successful Moderate pronunciamiento of Narváez and Francisco Serrano y Domínguez, end of the Baldomero Espartero regency
10. 1844: failed liberal and Esparterist coup, led by Martín Zurbano
11. 1846: failed progressive liberal military and civic revolt in Galicia, led by Miguel Solís Cuetos
12. 1848: failed progressive liberal military and civic revolt in Madrid, led by colonel Manuel Buceta
13. 1854: successful revolutionary coup in Madrid, led by general Leopoldo O'Donnell
14. 1860: failed carlist military uprising at Sant Carles de la Ràpita, led by general Jaime Ortega y Olleta
15. 1866: failed Progressive and Democrat coup in Madrid
16. 1866: failed pronunciamiento of Villarejo de Salvanés, led by general Juan Prim
17. 1868: successful Glorious Revolution, started by the pronunciamiento of Juan Bautista Topete in Cádiz

First Spanish Republic

1. 1874: successful coup led by General Pavía
2. 1874: successful "Pronunciamiento de Sagunto", that ends the Spanish First Republic and restores monarchy and the Borbón family at the throne

Kingdom of Spain

1. 1883: failed 5 August republican pronunciamiento in Badajoz
2. 1886: failed republican coup in Madrid, led by Manuel Villacampa del Castillo and Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla
3. 1923: Spanish Army regiments led by Miguel Primo de Rivera overthrew Prime Minister Manuel García Prieto and established a dictatorship with the support of King Alfonso XIII.
4. 1926: failed "Sanjuanada", a coup against the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera
5. 1929: failed coup against the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera, led by José Sánchez-Guerra y Martínez
6. 1930: Jaca uprising: Fermín Galán led a failed republican pronunciamiento against the Spanish monarchy in Jaca.

Second Spanish Republic

1. August 10, 1932; José Sanjurjo unsuccessfully tried to overthrow Prime Minister Manuel Azaña's Republican Left government, although the coup plotters were in disagreement over whether to next dissolve the Second Spanish Republic.
2. July 1936: A military uprising led by Emilio Mola in which Francisco Franco participated, against Prime Minister Manuel Azaña and the Second Spanish Republic, starting the Spanish Civil War
3. 1939: Segismundo Casado and Julián Besteiro overthrow the PSOE government of Juan Negrín in Republican-controlled Spain in order to negotiate a ceasefire with the Nationalists, forming the National Defense Council.

Kingdom of Spain

1. November 17, 1978: An aborted Guardia Civil coup led by Antonio Tejero to stop the Spanish transition to democracy.
2. February 23, 1981: A faction of the Spanish Armed Forces led by Tejero broke into the Congress of Deputies while they were preparing to elect Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo as the new Prime Minister. King Juan Carlos denounced the coup in a nationally televised address, and the coup collapsed the next day with no casualties.
3. October 27, 1982: A group of far-right colonels failed to overthrow Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo.
4. June 2, 1985: a group of far-right soldiers and officers (along with some civilians) planned to take power following a false flag attack, but the conspiracy was later aborted.

Sri Lanka

1. 1962 Ceylonese coup d'état attempt: Christian military officers attempted to topple the current government under Sirimavo Bandaranaike.

Sudan

Main article: Coups d'état in Sudan

1. June 1957: Abdel Rahman Ismail Kabeida failed to overthrow the Sudanese Government
2. November 16, 1958: Ibrahim Abboud overthrew Abdallah Khalil
3. November 9, 1959 The Sudanese Armed Forces failed to overthrow Ibrahim Abboud
4. 1964: The October Revolution in Sudan, driven by a general strike and rioting, forced President Ibrahim Abboud to transfer executive power to a transitional civilian government, and eventually to resign.
5. May 25, 1969: Gaafar al-Nimeiry overthrew Ismail al-Azhari
6. July 19–22, 1971: Communist members of the National Revolutionary Command Council led by Hashem al Atta attempted to overthrow al-Nimeiry but failed due to a lack of support.
7. September 5, 1975: The members of the Sudanese Communist Party failed to overthrowGaafar an-Nimeiry
8. July 2, 1976: Rebels failed to overthrow Gaafar Nimeiry
9. 2 February 1977: Failed coup attempt in Juba by former members of the Anyanya in the Sudanese Air Force
10. April 6, 1985: Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab overthrew Gaafar al-Nimeiry, establishing the Transitional Military Council.
11. June 30, 1989: Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir and the National Islamic Front overthrew President Ahmed al-Mirghani and Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi, creating the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation
12. April 23, 1990: First failed coup to overthrow Omar al-Bashir
13. March 1992: Second failed coup to overthrow Omar al-Bashir
14. March 2004: Third failed coup to overthrow Omar al-Bashir
15. May 10, 2008: Fourth failed coup to overthrow Omar al-Bashir
16. November 22, 2012: Fifth failed coup to overthrow Omar al-Bashir
17. 10 April 2019: The Sudanese Armed Forces led by Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf overthrow Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir during the Sudanese Revolution
18. 21 September 2021: An attempted coup against the ruling Sovereignty Council by forces loyal to Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir fails
19. 25 October 2021: The Sudanese military, led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, seizes control of the government following the arrest of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and other civilian members of the Sovereignty Council
20. April 15, 2023 – ongoing: Ongoing Coup attempt and armed conflict by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Suriname

1. May 25/26, 1910: failed coup d'état by police officer Frans Killinger.
2. November 7/8, 1947: failed coup d'état by Simon Sanches.
3. February 25, 1980: military coup led by Dési Bouterse ousts Prime Minister Henck Arron.
4. August 13, 1980: the military led by Dési Bouterse ousts President Johan Ferrier.
5. March 15, 1981: failed counter coup/conspiracy by Wilfred Hawker.
6. March 10/11, 1982: failed counter coup by Surendre Rambocus.
7. December 24, 1990: President Ramsewak Shankar dismissed by Suriname's military.

Switzerland

1. 1717: Wilchingen against the City of Schaffhausen
2. 1719: Werdenberg against Glarus
3. 1723: Military led by Major Abraham Davel (Vaud) against City of Bern
4. 1726: Peasants of Jura against Bistum of Basel
5. 1755: Leventina (Ticino) against Canton Uri
6. 1781: Chenaux (Fribourg) against Canton Fribourg
7. 1797: Peasants of Baselgebiet against the City of Basel and ousted Peter Ochs and Peter Vischer
8. January 8, 1800: Republicans (Hans Konrad Escher, Paul Usteri, Albrecht Rengger, Bernhard Friedrich Kuhn.) ousting the Patriots ( Karl Albrecht von Frisching, Karl von Müller-Friedberg und Carl Heinrich Gschwend)
9. August 7, 1800: Patriots ousting the Republicans
10. October, 27/28 1801: Federalist (Alois Reding & Johann Rudolf von Frisching) with help of the French Raymond Verninac ousting Unitarier and Patriots
11. April 17, 1802: Unitarier under the Lead of Bernhard Friedrich Kuhns ousting the Federalist Alois Reding
12. September 6, 1839: Züriputsch: Radical Movement under the lead of Conrad Melchior Hirzel & Fridrich Ludwig Keller ousting the Liberals. Killing of Johannes Hegtschweiler.

Sweden

1. 18 May 1160, successful: king Eric the Holy is killed on orders of Magnus Henriksson, who takes power as king Magnus II of Sweden
2. 12 April 1167, successful: king Charles Sverkersson (later sometimes called ”Charles VII”) is killed by men loyal to Canute Ericsson, who was declared king and consolidated his power in 1173
3. 14 June 1275, successful: Battle of Hova, king Valdemar I is overthrown and replaced by his brother who becomes king Magnus III
4. 1439, successful: king Eric of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (Kalmar Union) was deposed in a coup from the Danish and Swedish thrones, in 1440 also from the Norwegian throne.
5. June 1448, successful: Charles Canutesson is elected and hailed as king of Sweden under the pressure of his own private army
6. 1457, successful: Charles Canutesson is ousted following a rebellion by the archbishop and the high nobility
7. 1520, successful: Battle of Bogesund and Stockholm Bloodbath, Christian II of Denmark deposes Sten Sture the Younger and becomes king of Sweden
8. 1521–3, successful: the Vasa rebellion deposes Christian II, effectively finally ending the Kalmar Union and making Gustaf Vasa king Gustaf I of Sweden
9. 1568–9, successful: a rebellion among the estate of the nobility deposes king Eric XIV of Sweden and inserts his brother as king John III of Sweden
10. 1569, failed: The 1569 plot against John III of Sweden, seeking to reinstate Eric XIV of Sweden
11. 1574, failed: Mornay Plot against John III, seeking to reinstate Eric XIV
12. 1576, failed: The 1576 plot against John III, seeking to reinstate Eric XIV
13. 1598–1600, successful: War against Sigismund in 1598–9 and Linköping Bloodbath in 1600, Sigismund of Sweden was deposed and succeeded by his uncle Duke Charles, some years later crowned as Charles IX of Sweden
14. 1756, failed: Coup of 1756 of queen Louisa Ulrika against the Riksdag of the Estates
15. 1772, successful: Revolution of 1772; king Gustaf III of Sweden dismissed the Riksdag of the Estates, ending the Age of Liberty
16. 1789, failed: 1789 Conspiracy of Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp against her brother-in-law Gustaf III
17. 1793, failed: Armfelt Conspiracy by Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, in companionship with Magdalena Rudenschöld, with the intent to depose the guardian government of king Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, is exposed.
18. 1809, successful: Coup of 1809; a number of noblemen in the Swedish Army overthrew king Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden after the Finnish War
19. 1917–8, failed/cancelled: riots in Stockholm is followed by Socialist threats of revolution, but the plans are never realized; however, king Gustaf V is finally accepting parliamentarism and appoints Nils Edén as prime minister for a Liberal-Social Democrat coalition government to ease political tension

Syria

1. 1925–1927: The Great Syrian Revolt, a revolt initiated by the Druze and led by Sultan al-Atrash against French Mandate.
2. March 29, 1949 by Husni al-Za'im against Shukri al-Quwatli
3. August 14, 1949 by Sami al-Hinnawi against Husni al-Za'im
4. December 3, 1951 by Adib Shishakli against Hashim al-Atassi
5. February 25, 1954 by Maamun al-Kuzbari against Adib Shishakli
6. September 29, 1961 by Haydar al-Kuzbari and others against Gamal Abdel Nasser
7. March 8, 1963: Lu'ayy al-Atasi and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region overthrow the Second Syrian Republic under Nazim al-Kudsi
8. February 21–23, 1966: Salah Jadid overthrew Amin al-Hafiz and the Ba'ath National Command, leading to a split in the Ba'ath Party.
9. November 13, 1970: Hafez al-Assad overthrew Salah Jadid

Thailand

The number of coups in Thailand—whether successful or unsuccessful— is uncertain, leading one academic to call for a concerted effort to make a definitive list. According to Paul Chambers, a professor at Chiang Mai University's Institute for South-East Asian Affairs, there have been almost 30 coup attempts in Thailand (whether successful or unsuccessful) since 1912. Some count 11 coups since 1932. Others claim there were 13 since 1932.

1. 1912: Coup planned by military officers is discovered and thwarted.
2. 24 June 1932: The Khana Ratsadon party overthrew the absolute monarchy of King Prajadhipok.
3. 1 April 1933: Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada dissolves a government of the People's Party and ousted Pridi Banomyong, the leader of the party, out of the country.
4. 20 June 1933: Phraya Phahon Phonphayuhasena overthrew Phraya Manopakorn Nititada.
5. 11–23 October 1933: Royalist rebellion to overturn the results of the June 1933 coup d'état.
6. 3 August 1935: The Nai Sip rebellion.
7. 29 January 1939: More a purge or internal coup, it was the work of Prime Minister Phibul to remove political enemies and rivals.
8. 7 November 1947: Phin Choonhavan overthrew Thawal Thamrong Navaswadhi.
9. 26–27 February 1949: Attempted coup by Pridi, which saw the Grand Palace occupied by his supporters, failed.
10. 29 June 1951: Pridi supporters in the navy attempted a coup when they tried to seize Phibun.
11. 29 November 1951: Military overthrew 1949 constitution and reverts to 1932 constitution.
12. 21 September 1957: Sarit Thanarat overthrew Plaek Pibulsongkram
13. 20 October 1958: Self-coup of Sarit Thanarat
14. 18 November 1971: Self-coup of Thanom Kittikachorn
15. February 1976: An attempted military coup was defeated in February.
16. 6 October 1976: Sangad Chaloryu overthrew Seni Pramoj
17. 20 October 1977: Kriangsak Chamanan overthrew Thanin Kraivichien
18. 1 April 1981: A coup led by the deputy commander-in-chief of the army failed when forces loyal to the government suppressed the revolt. The "Young Turk" group of officers who staged the coup were dismissed from the army.
19. 9 September 1985: A coup attempt by Col. Manoonkrit Roopkachorn, a member of the Young Turks, failed and a number of senior officers were later arrested.
20. 23 February 1991: Sunthorn Kongsompong overthrew Chatichai Choonhavan
21. 19 September 2006: Sonthi Boonyaratglin overthrew Thaksin Shinawatra
22. 22 May 2014: Prayut Chan-o-cha overthrew Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan

Togo

1. January 13, 1963: Étienne Eyadéma and Emmanuel Bodjollé overthrow Sylvanus Olympio
2. January 13, 1967: Étienne Eyadéma and Kléber Dadjo overthrow Nicolas Grunitzky

Tunisia

1. July 15, 1957: Habib Bourguiba overthrew King Muhammad VIII al-Amin
2. November 7, 1987: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali overthrew Habib Bourguiba
3. July 25, 2021: Self-coup of President Kais Saied by dismissing his prime minister Hichem Mechichi and dissolving the Assembly of the Representatives of the People

Tuva

1. January, 1929: Pro-Soviet, anti-Buddhist faction of the Tuvan People's Revolutionary Party overthrew the government of the Tuvan People's Republic, in modern Tuva.

Tuvalu

1. 2024: Feleti Teo overthrew Kausea Natano

Turkey

Main article: Turkish coup d'état

Ottoman Empire

1. 1807–08: The Janissaries led by Kabakçı Mustafa overthrew Sultan Selim III to halt his Nizam-I Cedid reforms after the 1806 Edirne incident, disbanding his new military and replacing him with Mustafa IV. However, rebels led by Mustafa Bayrakdar overthrew the Janissary regime and placed Mahmud II on the throne.
2. May 15, 1826: The Janissaries revolted and attempted to overthrow Sultan Mahmud II in opposition to his military modernizations, but he had the Sipahis force them back to their barracks and permanently disbanded them.
3. May 30, 1876: Due to the public discontent caused by crop failures, public debt and excessive spending, 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdulaziz was deposed by his ministers on 30 May 1876 and found dead several days later, which was attributed to suicide. He was replaced by Murad V.
4. 1909: Islamist factions in the Ottoman Army attempted to overthrow the new Ottoman General Assembly and restore Sultan Abdülhamit II to absolute rule, capturing control of Constantinople for 11 days. Ended with its suppression by Mahmud Shevket Pasha's Third Army, forcing the Sultan to abdicate.
5. 1912: The "Saviour Officers" of the opposition Freedom and Accord Party overthrow the Committee of Union and Progress after the rigged 1912 general election.
6. January 23, 1913: The Committee of Union and Progress overthrew Grand Vizier Kâmil Pasha after the First Balkan War, leading to the rule of the "Three Pashas" in the Ottoman Empire.

Turkish Republic

1. May 27, 1960: A group of mid ranking Turkish Armed Forces officers, later called the National Unity Committee, overthrew the Democrat Party government led by Prime Minister Adnan Menderes
2. February 22, 1962: A failed coup attempt led by Colonel Talat Aydemir due to the discontent by the election results on July 9, 1961.
3. May 20, 1963: A second failed coup attempt led by officers loyal to Colonel Talat Aydemir who was retired after the previous coup attempt. The plotters were motivated by the purges of army officers that took part on May 27, 1960, coup. İsmet İnönü's government prevented the coup. Colonel Talat Aydemir, who was granted amnesty for the previous attempt, was executed.
4. May 20, 1969, military intervention
5. March 9, 1971: A coup attempt by leftist army officers was thwarted.
6. March 12, 1971 under four force commanders of the Turkish Armed Forces overthrew Süleyman Demirel
7. December 27, 1979, military memorandum
8. September 12, 1980: Chief of the General Staff Kenan Evren overthrew the government led by Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel in response to widespread political violence.
9. February 28, 1997: the General Staff issues a memorandum demanding the reversal of several policies of the Islamist government of Necmettin Erbakan, precipitating its collapse. Due to the lack of an overt military takeover, the event is popularly known as the "postmodern coup" (Turkish: Post-modern darbe).
10. April 27, 2007: Amidst a political deadlock concerning ongoing presidential elections, the General Staff issues a statement, later called the E-memorandum, about the presidential election understood to be a criticism of the ruling Justice and Development Party's candidate, Abdullah Gül. The crisis was resolved by an early election held later that year, which resulted in Gul's winning the presidency in a landslide.
11. July 15, 2016: A group within the Turkish military linked by the Turkish government to the Gulen movement, the Peace at Home Council, made a failed military attempt to overthrow the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Trinidad and Tobago

1. July 27 – August 1, 1990: Failed coup attempt by Islamist Jamaat al Muslimeen organization led by Yasin Abu Bakr against Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson

Uganda

1. February 1966: Milton Obote overthrew King Mutesa II of Buganda
2. January 25, 1971: Idi Amin overthrew Milton Obote
3. May 12, 1980: Paulo Muwanga overthrew Godfrey Binaisa
4. July 27, 1985: Tito Okello Lutwa overthrew Milton Obote
5. January 26, 1986: Yoweri Museveni overthrew Tito Okello Lutwa

Ukraine

Cossack Hetmanate

1. July 23, 1687: Conspirators overthrow and arrest Hetman Ivan Samoylovych, bringing to power Ivan Mazepa as the new Hetman

Ukrainian War of Independence

1. April 29, 1918: Pavlo Skoropadskyi overthrew the socialist government of the Central Council of Ukraine
2. December 14, 1918: Directorate of Ukraine overthrew Pavlo Skoropadskyi
3. April 29, 1919: Failed attempt by Otaman Volodymyr Oskilko to overthrow Borys Martos and the Directorate of Ukraine
4. December, 1919: Failed plot by Ukrainian Bolsheviks led by Yevgeny Polonsky to assassinate Nestor Makhno and seize power in the region under Makhnovshchina control

Post-1991 State

1. November 26, 2021: Alleged Russia-backed coup attempt allegations
2. February 2022: Failed 2022 coup attempt in Ukraine to take control of various Ukrainian cities by pro-Russian rebels, install pro-Russian rule in them and transfer cities to the Russian army during 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

United Arab Emirates

Emirates

Sharjah

1. January, 1972: Saqr bin Sultan Al Qasimi attempts and fails to overthrow Khalid bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, killing Khalid in the process
2. June, 1987: `Abd al-`Aziz bin Muhammad Al Qasimi attempts and fails to overthrow Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi

Federal Government

1. 2013: UAE Federal Government tries 94 people linked to Al Islah for an alleged coup plot.

United Kingdom

1. 1802: Despard Plot; plan by Edward Despard to assassinate King George III and stage a popular uprising in London; suppressed by the government.
2. 1820 Cato Street Conspiracy to assassinate Prime Minister Lord Liverpool and his cabinet; intercepted and suppressed in the planning stages
3. 1913 (March): During the suffragette bombing and arson campaign, a plot to kidnap Home Secretary Reginald McKenna was revealed and discussed in the House of Commons and in the press. It was revealed that suffragettes were planning to kidnap one or more cabinet ministers and subjecting them to force-feeding, until they conceded women's suffrage. After the publicization of the plans, the plans were aborted.
4. 1913: During the suffragette bombing and arson campaign, Special Branch detectives discovered that the WSPU had plans to create a suffragette "army" known as the "People's Training Corps" and informally as "Mrs Pankhurst's Army". The army was intended to proceed in force to Downing Street to imprison ministers until they conceded women's suffrage. After the discovery of the plans, they were aborted.

United States

See also: List of rebellions in the United States

Prior to independence

1. December 21, 1719: Local military officers in colonial South Carolina overthrew the Lords Proprietors.

Federal level

1. March 1783: The Continental Army may have planned to overthrow the Confederation Congress, but the conspiracy failed after Gen. George Washington refused to join.
2. August 29, 1786: Daniel Shays leads a march on the federal Springfield Armory in an unsuccessful attempt to seize its weaponry and overthrow the government. The federal government found itself unable to finance troops to put down the rebellion, and it was consequently put down by the Massachusetts State militia and a privately funded local militia. The widely held view was that the Articles of Confederation needed to be reformed as the country's governing document, and the events of the rebellion served as a catalyst for the Constitutional Convention and the creation of the new government.
3. 1933–34: A group of businessmen were said to be conspiring to overthrow Franklin D. Roosevelt and install a fascist dictatorship. It is said to have failed when Smedley Butler refused to participate and instead testified before Congress.
4. November 3, 2020 – January 7, 2021: After Joe Biden won the 2020 United States presidential election, President Donald Trump pursued an effort to overturn the election, with support and assistance from his campaign, proxies, political allies, and general public supporters. These efforts culminated in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, during which Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in a failed attempt to stop the Congressional certification of the election. In 2023 the Department of Justice indicted Trump for this.

State level

1. 1841–42: Failed gubernatorial candidate Thomas Wilson Dorr attempted to install a new government of Rhode Island under a different constitution.
2. March 16, 1861: The Texas Legislature deposed governor Sam Houston after he refused to swear allegiance to the Confederate States of America following the secession of Texas from the United States and replaced him with Edward Clark.
3. April 15, 1874: Failed gubernatorial candidate Joseph Brooks launched a coup against Arkansas governor Elisha Baxter, setting off a violent struggle between the state's two Republican Party leaders.
4. September 14, 1874: The White League overthrew the government of Louisiana in New Orleans, holding statehouse, armory, and downtown for three days until the coup was suppressed by the 22nd Infantry Regiment under the Insurrection Act of 1807.
5. October 14, 1931: Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana Paul N. Cyr had himself sworn in as Governor while Governor Huey Long was out of state. Long had been elected to the Senate in 1930 but intended to remain Governor until the end of his term in 1932. Long sent the National Guard to the Governor's mansion and the state Capitol and returned to Baton Rouge to secure his position as governor. Long had Cyr removed as Lieutenant Governor by successfully arguing to the Louisiana Supreme Court that Cyr had vacated the position by swearing himself in as governor.
6. October 8, 2020: The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced the arrests of 13 men suspected of orchestrating a domestic terror plot to kidnap American politician Gretchen Whitmer, the Governor of Michigan, and otherwise using violence to overthrow the state government.

Counties and municipalities

1. August 16, 1889: After months of retaliatory violence between rival factions of Southern Democrats, a gun battle in Richmond, Texas, killed the incumbent Sheriff of Fort Bend County, triggering martial law in the county and the collapse of its government.
2. November 10, 1898: White-supremacist Southern Democrats overthrew the biracial Fusionist ruling coalition of Wilmington, North Carolina.
3. August 2, 1946: Citizens led by returning WWII veterans overthrew the allegedly corrupt government of McMinn County, Tennessee.

Uruguay

1. February 10, 1898: Self-coup by Juan Lindolfo Cuestas.
2. March 31, 1933: Self-coup by Gabriel Terra.
3. February 21, 1942: Self-coup by Alfredo Baldomir, sometimes known as the Golpe bueno (the "Good coup").
4. June 27, 1973: Juan María Bordaberry closed parliament and established a civic-military dictatorship

Venezuela

1. December 19, 1908: Juan Vicente Gómez declares himself president after Cipriano Castro leaves for Europe to receive medical treatment
2. October 18, 1945: President Isaías Medina Angarita was overthrown by a rebellion and a popular movement, which saw a transition to a democratic government
3. November 24, 1948: A military junta, led by Carlos Delgado Chalbaud overthrew the democratically elected president Rómulo Gallegos
4. January 22–23, 1958: popular unrest and military support achieved the overthrow of the dictatorial government of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, forming a transitional government led by Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal and Edgar Sanabria
5. February 4–5, 1992: A failed coup attempt against President Carlos Andrés Pérez led by Hugo Chávez and his group MBR-200
6. November 27, 1992: A failed coup where a group of remnant officers loyal to the Hugo Chávez-led MBR-200 attempt to seize control of the government
7. April 11–13, 2002: Brief coup against Hugo Chávez led by the country's military high command during a general strike called by the business federation Fedecámaras and the Confederation of Workers of Venezuela

Vietnam

1. October 1459: Emperor Lê Nhân Tông was deposed and killed in a coup led by Lê Nghi Dân
2. May 1460: Failed coup against emperor Lê Nghi Dân
3. 6 June 1460: Emperor Lê Nghi Dân was deposed (and possibly killed) in a coup by officials, who enthroned Lê Thánh Tông.
4. November 1509: Emperor Lê Uy Mục was deposed in a coup led by Lê Tương Dực
5. Spring 1516: Emperor Lê Tương Dực was deposed in a military coup; the army enthroned his nephew Lê Chiêu Tông
6. 1524: Emperor Lê Chiêu Tông fled the capital due to a rebellion; general Mạc Đăng Dung quashed the rebellion, seized the opportunity to stage a coup against the emperor (who was killed by Mạc's supporters soon after), and enthroned his brother Lê Cung Hoàng.
7. 15 June 1527: Emperor Lê Cung Hoàng, the puppet of general Mạc Đăng Dung, was deposed and executed in a military coup by Mạc, who proclaimed himself the emperor of his own new Mạc dynasty. This led to the Lê–Mạc War (1527/33–1592).
8. Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina

South Vietnam

1. 1960: Lieutenant-Colonel Vương Văn Đông and Colonel Nguyễn Chánh Thi of the Airborne Division of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam failed to depose of President Ngo Dinh Diem.
2. 1963: General Dương Văn Minh led a group of Army of the Republic of Vietnam officers to oust President Ngo Dinh Diem in response to Ngo's handling of the Buddhist crisis.
3. January 1964: General Nguyễn Khánh ousted the military junta led by General Dương Văn Minh in a bloodless coup.
4. September 1964: Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức failed to overthrow the ruling military junta led by General Nguyễn Khánh. The attempt collapsed without any casualties.
5. December 1964: The ruling military junta, led by General Nguyễn Khánh dissolves the High National Council.
6. 1965: Army units commanded by General Lâm Văn Phát and Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo fight to a stalemate with those of the ruling military junta, led by General Nguyễn Khánh. Following this, however, General Nguyễn Cao Kỳ and Air Marshal Nguyễn Chánh Thi (hostile to both the plotters and to Khánh himself) seized power themselves with the backing of the United States. They then forced Khánh into exile.

Yanaon

1. Coup d'état of Yanaon

Yemen

1. 1948: The Alwazir family assassinated Imam Yahya of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen.
2. 1955 under Colonel Ahmad Yahya al-Thulaya
3. 1962 under Abdullah al-Sallal
4. 1974 under Ibrahim al-Hamdi
5. 2014–2015 a semi-successful coup against President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi led by the Houthis
6. 2018 Yemeni coup d'état by the Southern Movement

Yugoslavia

1. 6 January 1929: Alexander I of Yugoslavia suspends the constitution and introduces a personal dictatorship. (self-coup)
2. 1941: by King Peter II of Yugoslavia against Regent Prince Paul of Yugoslavia in reaction for joining the Axis Powers, leading to an Axis invasion.

Zanzibar

1. January 12, 1964: John Okello led the coup to overthrow Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah Al Said

Zambia

1. July 1, 1990: Mwamba Luchembe unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow President Kenneth Kaunda
2. October 28, 1997: Steven Lungu failed to overthrow President Frederick Chiluba

Zimbabwe

Southern Rhodesia

1. 1965: following the colonial government's Unilateral Declaration of Independence, the colonial governor dismisses the government, but the government ignores this and instead replaces the governor with an "Officer Administering the Government"
2. February 14, 1980: A planned coup to overthrow Robert Mugabe was canceled.

Zimbabwe

1. June 2 or June 15 2007: An alleged plot to overthrow Robert Mugabe.
2. November 14, 2017: A coup resulted in the removal of longtime President Robert Mugabe

See also

• List of coups and coup attempts – chronological listing
• List of coups and coup attempts since 2010
• List of revolutions and rebellions
• Self-coup
• Soft coup

External links

• Coups in the World, 1950–Present Archived 2017-07-25 at the Wayback Machine – Database on coups and coup attempts 1950–present, by Jonathan Powell & Clayton Thyne.
• Coups d'Etat, 1946–2015 – List of coups and coup attempts 1946–2015, by the Center for Systemic Peace.

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