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This is a list ofcoups d'état and coup attempts by country, listed in chronological order. According to a report in theJournal of Peace Research, a coup is the illegal overthrow of a government (as opposed to legal coercion). Scholars generally consider a coup successful when the usurpers are able to maintain control of the government for at least seven days.^[1]

1. February 20, 1919:Nasrullah Khan overthrewHabibullah Khan.^[2]
2. February 28, 1919:Amanullah Khan overthrewNasrullah Khan.^[2]
3. January 17, 1929:Habibullah Kalakani overthrewInayatullah Khan.^[2]
4. October 16, 1929:Mohammed Nadir Shah overthewHabibullāh Kalakāni.^[2]
5. July 17, 1973:Mohammed Daoud Khan overthrewMohammed Zahir Shah.^[2]
6. December 9, 1976: Qiyam-i Islami (Islamic Uprising) attempted and failed to overthrowMohammed Daoud Khan.
7. April 30, 1978:Abdul Qadir overthrewMohammed Daoud Khan.^[3]
8. September 16, 1979:Hafizullah Amin overthrewNur Muhammad Taraki.
9. December 27, 1979:Babrak Karmal overthrewHafizullah Amin.^[4]
10. March 6, 1990:Shahnawaz Tanai attempted and failed to overthrowMohammad Najibullah.^[5]
11. April 2002: foiled coup by members of hardline IslamistGulbuddin Hekmatyar'sHezbi Islami againstAfghan Interim Administration leaderHamid Karzai, which included killing former Afghan kingMohammed Zahir Shah on his planned return to Afghanistan

1. 1914: ThePeasant Revolt in Albania,^[6][7] also known as the Islamic Revolt or Muslim Uprising in Albania, was an uprising of peasants from central Albania, mostly Muslims, against the regime ofWilhelm, Prince of Albania in 1914. It was one of the reasons for the prince's withdrawal from the country, which marked the fall of thePrincipality of Albania.^[8] The uprising was led by Muslim leadersHaxhi Qamili,Arif Hiqmeti,Musa Qazimi, andMustafa Ndroqi.
2. June–December 1924: TheJune Revolution (Albanian:Kryengritja e Qershorit orLëvizja e Qershorit), also known as the Antibourgeois Democratic Revolution (Albanian:Revolucioni Demokrat Antiborgjez), was a peasant insurgency backed by the parliamentary opposition to theZogu government, following the1923 Albanian parliamentary election.Fan Noli became the Prime Minister of Albania.
3. September 14, 1998: The funeral ofAzem Hajdari, a Member of Parliament, turned violent as the office of the Albanian prime ministerFatos Nano was attacked, obliging the Nano to hastily flee and step down shortly after. His party remained in power.^[9]

1. July 3, 1962:Houari Boumédiène andAhmed Ben Bella overthrewBenyoucef Benkhedda.
2. June 19, 1965:Houari Boumédiène overthrewAhmed Ben Bella.^[10]
3. December 14–16, 1967: Colonel Tahar Zbiri failed to overthrowHouari Boumédiène.
4. January 11, 1992:Khaled Nezzar overthrewChadli Bendjedid.^[11]
5. On April 2, 2019, the presidentAbdelaziz Bouteflika resigned under pressure from themilitary, following the2019–2021 Algerian protests^[12][13]

1. May 27, 1977: The Minister of InteriorNito Alves failed to overthrowAgostinho Neto.

1. September 6, 1930: GeneralJosé Félix Uriburu and theNacionalistas overthrew PresidentHipólito Yrigoyen and suspended the1853 Constitution.
2. December 18, 1932: failed military uprising againstAgustín Pedro Justo byAtilio Cattáneo and theRadical Civic Union.
3. June 4, 1943: the military overthrew presidentRamón Castillo.
4. September 28, 1951: failed military revolt against PresidentJuan Perón byBenjamín Menéndez.
5. September 16–23, 1955: the military, led by GeneralEduardo Lonardi, overthrew presidentJuan Perón.
6. June 6, 1956: failed military uprising, led by GeneralJuan José Valle, against de facto PresidentPedro Eugenio Aramburu.
7. June 19, 1959: failed military uprising againstArturo Frondizi byArturo Ossorio Arana [es].
8. November 30, 1960: failed military uprising againstArturo Frondizi byMiguel Ángel Iñíguez [es].
9. March 29, 1962: the military, led by GeneralRaúl Poggi [es], overthrew PresidentArturo Frondizi.
10. 21 September 1962 – 5 April 1963: a revolt by Anti Peronist elements of the Argentine Navy after the government decided to allow Peronist candidates to run for political office.
11. June 28, 1966: a military uprising led by GeneralJuan Carlos Onganía overthrew presidentArturo Umberto Illia.
12. December 18–22, 1975: failed military uprising againstIsabel Perón byJesús Orlando Cappellini [es].
13. March 24, 1976:Jorge Videla overthrewIsabel Perón and established theNational Reorganization Process.
14. December 11, 1981: the military overthrewRoberto Viola, withLeopoldo Galtieri being appointed president of Argentina one week later.
15. April 1987: mutiny by members of theCarapintada faction in the Argentine Army.

1. May 10–14, 1920: Uprising by Pro-Bolshevik forces in Yerevan.
2. February 25, 2021: theArmenian military called forPrime MinisterNikol Pashinyan to resign, similar to the1997 Turkish military memorandum
3. September 2023: The Armenian government announced it had foiled a coup lot by a militia.
4. September 18, 2024: Several people were arrested for taking part in a plot to install a pro-Russian government.^[14]
5. June 25, 2025: 15 people were arrested on charges of planning a coup to overthrow Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.^[15]

1. January 26, 1808: theNew South Wales Corps overthrewWilliam Bligh,Governor of New South Wales, and installedMajor George Johnston as acting lieutenant-governor.

1. November 11, 1975: Opposition leaderMalcolm Fraser and Governor-GeneralJohn Kerr committed a 'soft coup' when Kerr dismissed Prime MinisterGough Whitlam and replaced him with Fraser.

1. 1931: Attempted coup by members of theHeimwehr paramilitary group, led byWalter Pfrimer.
2. March 15, 1933:Self-coup byChancellorEngelbert Dollfuss, which effectively ended democracy and theFirst Republic.
3. July 25, 1934: theAustrian Nazi Party and theAustrian SS attempted to overthrow theFatherland Front government in theFederal State of Austria, resulting in theassassination of ChancellorEngelbert Dollfuss and his succession byKurt Schuschnigg.
4. April 2017: Austrian police arrested members of the far right for plotting a coup.^[16]

1. June 9, 1993:Heydar Aliyev overthrewAbulfaz Elchibey in a political crisis during theFirst Nagorno-Karabakh War^[17]
2. March 13, 1995: ColonelRovshan Javadov and his unit ofOPON troops failed to seize power from PresidentHeydar Aliyev and reinstate his predecessorAbulfaz Elchibey after Turkish presidentSüleyman Demirel warned Aliyev.
3. May 16, 2023: AllegedIran-backed coup plot.^[18]

1. 1895: attempted coup by Shubar al-Sitri.
2. December 16, 1981: Seventy-three members of theIslamic 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 denied this claim.

1. August 15, 1975:Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad overthrew theBaKSAL government ofSheikh Mujibur Rahman.^[19]
2. November 3, 1975:Khaled Mosharraf overthrew the government set up by theAugust coup.^[20]
3. November 7, 1975: Soldiers from theBangladesh Army overthrew and killedKhaled Mosharraf just a few days after he took power.^[21]
4. May 30, 1981: Soldiers led by Major GeneralMohammad Abdul Monjur assassinatedPresidentZiaur Rahman. They failed to seize power and were rounded up.^{[citation needed]}
5. March 24, 1982:Hussain Muhammad Ershad overthrew PresidentAbdus Sattar.^[22]
6. May 1996:Abu Saleh Mohammad Nasim attempted and failed to overthrowAbdur Rahman Biswas.^[23]
7. January 11, 2007: GeneralMoeen U Ahmed pressured PresidentIajuddin Ahmed into declaring a state of emergency, postponing elections, and appointing a newChief Advisor to head the caretaker government.^{[citation needed]}
8. December 2011: Rebel army officers attempted and failed to overthrowSheikh Hasina.^[24]

1. June 18, 1789: The Austrian Imperial Army occupied theGreat Market of Brussels, dissolved theStates of Brabant andCouncil of Brabant, and tried to arrest all its members.

1. March 1790:Statist coup was carried out against theVonckists.

1. February 2, 1831 [fr]: TheOrangist movement launched an unsuccessful coup in Belgium.

1. 1818: A coup, supported by the slave traderFrancisco Félix de Souza, overthrew KingAdandozan and enthronedGhezo.^[25]

1. October 28, 1963:Christophe Soglo overthrewHubert Maga and theDahomeyan Unity Party.
2. November 27, 1965:Christophe Soglo overthrewSourou-Migan Apithy.
3. December 16, 1967:Maurice Kouandété overthrewChristophe Soglo.
4. December 10, 1969:Maurice Kouandété overthrewEmile Derlin Zinsou.
5. October 26, 1972:Mathieu Kérékou overthrewJustin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin.

1. January 17, 1977: French-led mercenaries attempted to overthrowMathieu Kérékou and thePeople's Revolutionary Party of Benin government.

1. March 4, 2013: Failed coup attempt by ColonelPamphile Zomahoun [fr] againstPresidentThomas Boni Yayi.
2. September 26, 2024: 3 people arrested on charges of organising a coup.^[26]
3. December 7, 2025: members of the Beninese Armed Forces attempted to overthrowPresidentPatrice Talon

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: PresidentPedro Blanco Soto was deposed and killed in a coup led byJosé Ballivián.
3. January 22, 1839:José Miguel de Velasco overthrewAndrés de Santa Cruz.
4. June 10, 1841:Sebastián Ágreda overthrewJosé Miguel de Velasco.
5. September 22, 1841:José Ballivián overthrewMariano Enrique Calvo.
6. January 2, 1848:Manuel Isidoro Belzu overthrewEusebio Guilarte and installedJosé Miguel de Velasco as president.
7. December 6, 1848:Manuel Isidoro Belzu overthrewJosé Miguel de Velasco; failed counter-coup by Velasco.
8. 1854: Failed military revolt, with notable participantMariano Melgarejo, againstManuel Isidoro Belzu.
9. September 9, 1857:José María Linares overthrewJorge Córdova.
10. January 14, 1861:José María de Achá, Ruperto Fernández, and Manuel Antonio Sánchez overthrewJosé María Linares.
11. December 28, 1864:Mariano Melgarejo overthrewJosé María de Achá.
12. January 15, 1871:Agustín Morales overthrewMariano Melgarejo.
13. May 4, 1876:Hilarión Daza overthrewTomás 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 overthrewSevero Fernández.
16. August 12, 1920:Bautista Saavedra overthrewJosé Gutiérrez.
17. June 28, 1930:Carlos Blanco Galindo overthrewHernando Siles Reyes' ministerial cabinet.
18. November 27, 1934: Military revolt.Germán Busch, under the orders ofDavid Toro andEnrique Peñaranda, overthrewDaniel Salamanca Urey and installed Vice PresidentJosé Luis Tejada Sorzano as president.
19. May 17, 1936:Germán Busch overthrewJosé Luis Tejada Sorzano and installedDavid Toro as president.
20. July 13, 1937:Germán Busch overthrewDavid Toro.
21. December 20, 1943:Gualberto Villarroel overthrewEnrique Peñaranda.
22. July 21, 1946: An enraged mob lynchedGualberto Villarroel.Néstor Guillén, and thenTomás Monje, were installed as interim presidents.
23. May 16, 1951:Mamerto Urriolagoitía enacted a self-coup and installed GeneralHugo Ballivián as president to stop President-electVíctor Paz Estenssoro from taking office.
24. April 11, 1952:Hernán Siles Zuazo overthrewHugo Ballivián and installedVíctor Paz Estenssoro as president.
25. November 5, 1964:René Barrientos andAlfredo Ovando Candía overthrewVíctor Paz Estenssoro.^[27]
26. September 26, 1969:Alfredo Ovando Candía overthrewLuis Adolfo Siles Salinas.
27. October 6, 1970: Military revolt. Three armed forces chiefs overthrewAlfredo Ovando Candía but ruled for less than a day before Ovando loyalists underJuan José Torres took back control. Ovando agreed to entrust the presidency to Torres.
28. August 21, 1971:Hugo Banzer overthrewJuan José Torres.^[28]
29. November 7, 1974: Failed military revolt.Hugo Banzer banned all political activity and ruled solely with military support.^[29]
30. July 21, 1978:Juan Pereda overthrew the transitionalmilitary junta.
31. November 24, 1978:David Padilla overthrewJuan Pereda.
32. November 1, 1979:Alberto Natusch overthrewWálter Guevara.
33. July 17, 1980:Luis García Meza overthrewLidia Gueiler Tejada.^[30]
34. June 30, 1984: Failed military coup attempt arrestsHernán Siles Zuazo for ten hours.^[31]
35. 2019 Bolivian political crisis^{[32][33][34][35][36]}
36. June 26, 2024: Attempted coup by former GeneralJuan José Zúñiga againstLuis Arce.

1. July 30, 1832: a failed coup byDiogo Feijó.
2. November 15, 1889:Deodoro da Fonseca and theImperial Brazilian Army overthrewPedro II of Brazil and established theFirst Brazilian Republic.^[37]
3. November 3, 1891:Deodoro da Fonseca dissolved theNational Congress during theEncilhamento 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 theVaccine Revolt.
6. December 1915 [pt]: a coup plot againstVenceslau Brás.
7. July 5, 1922: a failed military coup to prevent the inauguration ofArtur Bernardes.^[38]
8. November 3, 1930:Getúlio Vargas overthrewWashington Luís and prevented the inauguration ofJúlio Prestes.^[39]
9. November 10, 1937:Getúlio Vargas dissolved theNational Congress, installing theEstado Novo dictatorship.
10. October 29, 1945: A military coup d'état deposedGetúlio Vargas, installing theSecond Brazilian Republic.
11. August 24, 1954: Possible coup d'état was averted afterGetúlio Vargas committed suicide.
12. November 11, 1955: A coup d'état to preventJuscelino Kubitschek from assuming the presidency failed after generalHenrique Lott carried out a countercoup.
13. February 10, 1956: TheBrazilian Air Force revolted against Juscelino Kubitschek in theRevolta de Jacareacanga [pt].
14. December 2, 1959: Air Force military hijacked a civilian airplane and attempted a coup against Juscelino Kubitschek, in theAragarças Revolt.
15. August 25 to September 7, 1961: Military tried to preventJoão Goulart from being sworn into the presidency afterJânio Quadros resigned. After acivilian 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 inBrasília after theSupreme Federal Court reaffirmed their ineligibility for legislative posts, in theSergeants' Revolt.
17. March 31, 1964:Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco overthrewJoão Goulart, establishing the 21-year-longdictatorship.^[40]
18. August 31, 1969: The military preventedPedro Aleixo, civilian vice-president and legal successor according to the military dictatorship's recently enacted constitution, from assuming power afterCosta e Silva suffered a stroke.
19. December 2022:2022 Brazilian Coup plot.
20. January 8, 2023: Supporters of former presidentJair Bolsonaro stormed theNational Congress,Supreme Federal Court andPlanalto Palace inBrasília, in an effort to overturn the result of the2022 Brazilian general election and called for a military coup against PresidentLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva.^[41][42][43] See also:Planning for a coup d'état after the 2022 Brazilian presidential elections.

1. April 27, 1881: This was aself-coup byKnyazAlexander of Battenberg, who dismissed the government ofPetko Karavelov and suspended theTarnovo Constitution.
2. August 9, 1886: An attempted dethroning of KnyazAlexander of Battenberg.
3. June 9, 1923: TheMilitary Union [bg;he;pl] overthrewAleksandar Stamboliyski and installed coup leaderAleksandar Tsankov in power.
4. September 14–29, 1923: Staged in September 1923 by theBulgarian Communist Party (BCP) underComintern 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 byKimon Georgiev with the help of theMilitary Union [bg;he;pl], overthrew the coalition government led by theDemocratic Party.
6. September 9, 1944:Zveno and theFatherland Front, led byKimon Georgiev, overthrewKonstantin Muraviev after theSoviet invasion of Bulgaria.^[44]
7. April 1965: A plot within theBulgarian Communist Party to overthrowTodor Zhivkov and establish ananti-Soviet Communist government was foiled.
8. November 10, 1989 [nl]:Todor Zhivkov was ousted in a palace coup within theBulgarian Communist Party.

1. January 3, 1966: Lieutenant ColonelSangoulé Lamizana overthrew PresidentMaurice Yaméogo.
2. February 8, 1974: Aself-coup, orchestrated byPresident GeneralSangoulé Lamizana (in office since the1966 coup), against theRDA-led government of Prime Ministe]Gérard Kango Ouédraogo.^[45]
3. November 25, 1980: ColonelSaye Zerbo overthrew PresidentSangoulé Lamizana.
4. November 7, 1982: MajorJean-Baptiste Ouédraogo overthrew PresidentSaye Zerbo.
5. February 28, 1983: Failed coup attempt against PresidentJean-Baptiste Ouédraogo.
6. August 4, 1983: CaptainBlaise Compaoré overthrew PresidentJean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, replacing him with CaptainThomas Sankara.^[46]

1. October 15, 1987:Blaise Compaoré overthrewThomas Sankara.
2. September 18, 1989: Alleged failed coup attempt by senior officers against PresidentBlaise Compaoré.
3. October 2003: The attempted coup was carried out against long-time strongman PresidentBlaise Compaoré and hisCDP regime, and resulted in the imprisonment of several members of themilitary and political dissidents.^[47]
4. October 30, 2014: Lt. ColonelYacouba Isaac Zida overthrew current presidentBlaise Compaoré and briefly served as head of state before selectingMichel Kafando as the new president. Days later, Kafando appointed Zida as acting prime minister.
5. September 17, 2015: The presidential guard headed byGilbert Diendéré overthrew interim presidentMichel Kafando one month before elections. However, the coup collapsed one week later and Kafando was reinstalled.
6. October 8, 2016:Blaise Compaoré loyalists and former presidential guards failed to overthrow PresidentRoch Marc Christian Kaboré.^[48][49][50]
7. January 23, 2022: PresidentRoch Marc Christian Kaboré was reported to have been detained by the soldiers at the military camp in the capital.^[51] On January 24, the military announced on television that Kaboré had been deposed from his position as president.^[52] After the announcement, the military declared that the parliament, government and constitution had been dissolved.^[53]
8. September 30, 2022: The coup removed interim presidentPaul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba over his alleged inability to deal with the country'sIslamist insurgency. CaptainIbrahim Traoré took over as interim leader.^[54]
9. September 26, 2023: failed coup attempt against PresidentIbrahim Traore.^[55]
10. January 14, 2024: attempted coup crushed by military.^[56]
11. April 16, 2025: attempt to overthrow Ibrahim Traoré foiled after plotters were arrested.^[57]
12. January 7 2026: Burkina Faso announced that an attempted assassination of Ibrahim Traoré was thwarted.^[58] According toDW Africa, this is the fifth coup attempt in Burkina Faso since 2023.^[59]

1. October 18–19, 1965: Failed coup againstMwambutsa IV of Burundi.
2. July 8, 1966:Ntare V overthrewMwambutsa IV.^[60]
3. November 28, 1966:Michel Micombero overthrewNtare V.^[60]
4. November 10, 1976:Jean-Baptiste Bagaza overthrewMichel Micombero.
5. September 3, 1987:Pierre Buyoya overthrewJean-Baptiste Bagaza.
6. October 21 to November 1993: Failed coup that led to the assassination ofMelchior Ndadaye.
7. July 25, 1996:Pierre Buyoya overthrewSylvestre Ntibantunganya.^[61]
8. April 18, 2001: Failed coup againstPierre Buyoya.
9. May 13–15, 2015: Failed coup d'état led by GeneralGodefroid Niyombare against PresidentPierre Nkurunziza.^[62]

1. 1959: Coup plot by right wing politicians with support fromThailand andSouth Vietnam.
2. March 18, 1970:Lon Nol overthrewNorodom Sihanouk.^[63]
3. July 2, 1994: Attempted coup byNorodom Chakrapong and General Sin Song.
4. July 5, 1997:Hun Sen overthrewNorodom Ranariddh.
5. November 20, 2000: Attempted coup against Prime MinisterHun Sen.

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

1. January 1, 1966:Jean-Bédel Bokassa overthrewDavid Dacko.^[64]
2. 1974: General Martin Lingoupou attempted to overthrowJean-Bédel Bokassa.^[65]
3. 1975: There was an attempt to overthrow Jean-Bédel Bokassa.^[65]
4. 1976: Groups of soldiers try to overthrow Jean-Bédel Bokassa.^[65]
5. September 21, 1979:David Dacko overthrewJean-Bédel Bokassa with French military support.
6. September 1, 1981:André Kolingba overthrewDavid Dacko.
7. 1982:Ange-Félix Patassé,François Bozizé, andAlphonse Mbaïkoua, attempted to overthrowAndré Kolingba.^[65]
8. 1996: Soldiers attempted to overthrow Patassé.^[65]
9. May 27–28, 2001: There was a failed coup attempt againstAnge-Félix Patassé.
10. October 25–31, 2002:François Bozizé attempted to overthrow Patassé.^[66]
11. March 15, 2003:François Bozizé overthrewAnge-Félix Patassé.
12. March 24, 2013:Michel Djotodia overthrewFrançois Bozizé.
13. September 26 to October 3, 2015: Failed attempt byHaroun Gaye andEugene Ngaïkosset to overthrowCatherine Samba-Panza.^[67]
14. January 13, 2021: A coup attempt by rebel groups, led by former presidentFrançois Bozizé, againstFaustin-Archange Touadéra fails.^[68]

1. April 13, 1975:Noël Milarew Odingar overthrewFrançois Tombalbaye.
2. June 7, 1982:Hissène Habré overthrewGoukouni Oueddei.
3. December 1, 1990:Idriss Déby overthrewHissène Habré.
4. May 16, 2004: Failed coup against PresidentIdriss Déby.
5. March 14, 2006: Failed coup against PresidentIdriss Déby.
6. May 1, 2013: Failed coup againstIdriss Déby.^[69][70]
7. 2021 Northern Chad offensive^[71]
8. January 9, 2025: Failed coup againstMahamat Idriss Déby.^[72]

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 ofJosé 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 theMaipo 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 ofChiloé Island and failed attempt to depose the government.
13. 1837: A failed attempt to depose the government that resulted in the death ofDiego Portales.
14. 1851: An armed rebellion by liberals against the conservative PresidentManuel Montt.
15. 1859: A rekindling of the armed rebellion by liberals against the conservative PresidentManuel Montt that began in 1851.
16. 1891: An armed conflict between forces supportingNational Congress and forces supporting PresidentJosé Manuel Balmaceda.
17. 1891–94: Several Balmacedist plots, planned by HernánAbos-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 PresidentRamon Barros Luco. In September,Gonzalo Bulnes the appointed leader of the plot, desisted.
19. 1919: A failed plot by GeneralsGuillermo Armstrong andManuel Moore against PresidentJuan Luis Sanfuentes.
20. September 5, 1924: A successful coup against PresidentArturo Alessandri.
21. January 23, 1925: A successful coup in whichCarlos Ibáñez del Campo andMarmaduke Grove overthrewLuis Altamirano toreturn PresidentArturo Alessandri to office.
22. September 21, 1930: A failed attempt against PresidentCarlos Ibáñez del Campo byMarmaduke Grove.
23. July 26, 1931: Successful rebellion againstCarlos Ibáñez del Campo.
24. September 1931: A rebellion in theChilean Navy against Vice-presidentManuel Trucco that ended with the fleet being bombed from the air.
25. December 25, 1931: A failedCommunist push against PresidentJuan Esteban Montero.
26. June 4, 1932: A successful coup that resulted in the instauration of theSocialist Republic of Chile, in whichCarlos Dávila overthrewJuan Esteban Montero.
27. September 27, 1932: A successful coup of General Pedro Vignola that resulted in the resignation of PresidentBartolomé Blanche and a return to civilian rule.
28. 1933: A failed plot against PresidentArturo 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 byRené Silva Espejo and Alejandro Lagos.
31. September 5, 1938: A failedNational Socialist attempt in favor ofCarlos Ibáñez del Campo that resulted in the murder of 59 young party members.
32. August 25, 1939: A failed attempt by Ariosto Herrera against PresidentPedro Aguirre Cerda.
33. 1948: A failed plot against PresidentGabriel González Videla.
34. 1954: A failed plot to allow PresidentCarlos Ibáñez del Campo to assume dictatorial powers.
35. June 29, 1973: A failed coup against PresidentSalvador Allende.
36. September 11, 1973: A successful coup against PresidentSalvador Allende (resulting inhis suicide), in favor ofAugusto Pinochet.

1. February 2, 249:Sima Yi initiated a coup against theCao Wei regentCao Shuang.
2. July 2, 626: During theXuanwu Gate Incident, PrinceLi Shimin and his close followers killed Crown PrinceLi Jiancheng and PrinceLi Yuanji before taking complete control of theTang government fromEmperor Gaozu.^[73]
3. February 960 –Coup at Chen Bridge: during theLater 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 becameEmperor Taizu who founded theSong Dynasty, reigning from 960 until his death in 976.
4. September 4, 1323: Coup d'état at Nanpo againstGegeen Khan (alias Emperor Yingzong of Yuan, or Shidibala).^[74]
5. 1856 – TheTaiping rebellion: East KingYang Xiuqing attempts to take control of theTaiping Heavenly Kingdom from Heavenly KingHong Xiuquan, but he and his followers are killed.
6. 1861: With the help ofPrince Gong,Empress Dowager Cixi ousted eight regents (led bySushun) whom theXianfeng Emperor had appointed on his deathbed to rule for the childTongzhi Emperor.
7. September 21, 1898 –Wuxu Coup: In response to theHundred Days' Reform,Empress Dowager Cixi took power from theGuangxu Emperor.
8. February 12, 1912:Qing generalYuan Shikai, by agreement withSun Yat-sen and hisProvisional Government, forced EmperorPuyi to abdicate and established theBeiyang government, ending theQing Dynasty.

1. Late 1913 to January 1914:Yuan Shikai crackdown on theChinese National Assembly.
2. December 12, 1915:Yuan Shikai launches aself-coup by establishing theEmpire of China, with himself as theEmperor of China.
3. June 14, 1917:Qing-loyalist generalZhang Xun overthrew Chinese presidentLi Yuanhong and later proclaim therestoration of theQing Empire withPuyi as emperor.
4. July 12, 1917: Brief restoration attempt was crushed by troops loyal to warlordDuan Qirui.
5. July 19, 1920:Cao Kun andZhang Zuolin overthrewDuan Qirui.
6. January 25, 1922:Wu Peifu overthrewLiang Shiyi causing theFirst Zhili-Fengtian War.
7. October 23, 1924:Feng Yuxiang overthrewCao Kun.
8. April 18, 1926:Zhang Xueliang andWu Peifu captured the capital,Beijing, and then sacked the city, leading to the collapse of the Beiyang government and the near destruction ofGuominjun faction.
9. April 12, 1927:Chiang Kai-shek orders apurge of communists in hisKuomintang party to ensure right-wing dominance in the party.^{[citation needed]}
10. June 2, 1928:Yan Xishan (allied withChiang Kai-shek) overthrewZhang Zuolin.
11. April 1930:Yan Xishan expelledChiang Kai-shek's supporters fromBeijing, starting theCentral Plains War.
12. December 12, 1936 to December 25, 1936:Zhang Xueliang kidnappedChiang Kai-shek in an attempt to seize power and establish aunited Anti-Japanese front with theCommunist Party against theJapanese occupation of Manchuria.

1. 1971: A failed coup plot to overthrowMao Zedong.
2. October 6, 1976: theGang of Four, who allegedly tried to take over the government after the death of chairmanMao Zedong in September, are arrested.

1. August 27, 1828 [es]: After the failure of theConvention of Ocaña,Simón Bolívar performs a self-coup by declaring a dictatorship under the title of "President-Liberator."^[75]
2. September 25, 1828: A failed conspiracy that attempted to assassinateSimón Bolívar.
3. September 4, 1830:Rafael Urdaneta overthrewJoaquín Mosquera.^[76]

1. April 17, 1854 [es]:José María Melo overthrewJosé María Obando.
2. July 18, 1861 [es]:Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera overthrewJulio Arboleda Pombo.
3. May 23, 1867 [es]:Santos Acosta overthrewTomás Cipriano de Mosquera.
4. July 31, 1900: Vice PresidentJosé Manuel Marroquín overthrewManuel Antonio Sanclemente.
5. July 4, 1909 [es]: A coup attempt againstJorge Holguín by supporters ofRamón González Valencia.
6. July 10, 1944 [es]: coup attempt againstAlfonso López Pumarejo by some soldiers.
7. June 13, 1953:Gustavo Rojas Pinilla overthrewLaureano Gómez.^[77]
8. May 10, 1957:Gustavo Rojas Pinilla was overthrown by theColombian Military Junta.
9. May 2, 1958: TheColombian junta foiled a coup attempt led by Hernando Forero Gómez, with reported intentions to disrupt the1958 election and restoreGustavo Rojas Pinilla to power.^[78]

1. August 3, 1975:Said Mohamed Jaffar andBob Denard overthrewAhmed Abdallah.
2. May 23, 1978:Ahmed Abdallah andBob Denard overthrewAli Soilih.
3. November 26, 1989:Said Mohamed Djohar andBob Denard overthrewAhmed Abdallah.
4. September 28, 1995:Bob Denard overthrewSaid Mohamed Djohar for seven days.
5. April 30, 1999:Azali Assoumani overthrewTadjidine Ben Said Massounde.^[79]
6. April 20, 2013: A failed coup against PresidentIkililou Dhoinine.^[80]

1. September 14, 1960: Joseph-Désiré Mobutu (laterMobutu Sese Seko) overthrewPatrice Lumumba.
2. November 25, 1965: Joseph-Désiré Mobutu (laterMobutu Sese Seko) overthrewJoseph Kasa-Vubu.
3. May 16, 1997:Laurent-Désiré Kabila overthrewMobutu Sese Seko, leading to theFirst Congo War.^{[citation needed]}
4. March 28, 2004: Former members of the elite unit of ex-dictatorMobutu Sese Seko's protection group attempted to overthrow the government through attacks inKinshasa, but failed.^[81]
5. June 11, 2004:Eric Lenge planned to overthrowJoseph Kabila but was foiled.
6. February 27, 2011: Coup attempt againstJoseph Kabila.
7. December 30, 2013: attempted coup by followers ofPaul Joseph Mukungubila.
8. February 8, 2022: An alleged coup to overthrowFélix Tshisekedi.
9. May 19, 2024: members of the New Zaire Movement attempted to overthrowFélix Tshisekedi.^[82]

1. August 15, 1963:Alphonse Massamba-Débat overthrewFulbert Youlou.
2. June 27-July 1966: Marien Ngouabi attempted to overthrow Alphonse Massamba-Debat.
3. September 4, 1968:Marien Ngouabi overthrewAlphonse Massamba-Débat.^[83]
4. 1972: attempted coup against Marien Ngouabi.
5. February 8, 1979:Denis Sassou Nguesso overthrewJoachim Yhombi-Opango.
6. 1987: attempted coup against Denis Sassou Nguesso.
7. October 25, 1997:Denis Sassou Nguesso overthrewPascal Lissouba.

1. March 29, 1823:Joaquín de Oreamuno overthrewRafael Francisco Osejo.
2. April 27, 1870:Bruno Carranza overthrewJesús Jiménez Zamora.
3. July 30, 1876:Vicente Herrera Zeledón overthrewAniceto Esquivel Sáenz.
4. January 27, 1917:Federico Tinoco Granados overthrewAlfredo González Flores.
5. April 24, 1948:José Figueres Ferrer overthrewTeodoro Picado Michalski.
6. April 3, 1949: Public Security MinisterEdgar Cardona Quirós [es] led a failed attempt to overthrowJosé Figueres Ferrer.
7. January 1955: Failed attempt to overthrowJosé Figueres Ferrer.

1. September 3, 1933:Fulgencio Batista oustedCarlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada.
2. March 10, 1952: Batista overthrewCarlos Prío Socarrás.
3. 1956: Coup attempt against Batista by Colonel Ramon M. Barquin^[84]
4. January 1, 1959:Fidel Castro and his communist revolutionaries overthrew theFulgencio Batista government.
5. April 17–20, 1961: A collaborative coup/invasion attempt byCuban opposition and theUnited States fails to toppleFidel Castro.

1. December 1, 1796:Johann Lauffer overthrew Jan Jacob Beaujon as governor.^[85]

1. 1972–1973: Three bishops of theGreek Orthodox Church attempted to overthrowArchbishop Makarios III asPresident of Cyprus.
2. July 15, 1974:Nikos Sampson, with support fromEOKA B and theNational Guard, overthrewMakarios III.

1. 6 September 1427 [cs]: a coalition of moderate Hussites and Catholic nobles attempted to overthrow the radical Hussite faction in Prague.

1. 1926–28 Gajda Affair: Rumored coup plots byRadola Gajda and theCzechoslovak Army against PresidentTomáš Garrigue Masaryk's government.
2. 21–22 January 1933Židenický puč [cs].: coup attempt by members of theNational Fascist Community in Brno.
3. 1938: Failed coup byKonrad Henlein.
4. February 25, 1948: theCommunist Party of Czechoslovakia underKlement Gottwald eliminates all democratic elements from power.
5. May 17, 1949 [cs]: Failed coup byKvětoslav Prokeš [cs].

1. 1660:Frederick III of Denmark declared astate of emergency after theDano-Swedish War to establish anabsolutehereditary monarchy .
2. 1772:Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, her advisorOve Høegh-Guldberg, and her sonHereditary Prince Frederick threw a palace coup against QueenCaroline Matilda of Great Britain and her loverJohann Friedrich Struensee, who had come to dominate theDanish court due to the mental illness of KingChristian VII.
3. 1784:Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark overthrew Juliana Maria's clique. The Crown Prince became regent.

1. April 27, 1981: Failed coup attempt by American and CanadianNeo-Naziwhite supremacist andKu Klux Klan leadersJames Alexander McQuirter andDon Black to overthrowPrime MinisterEugenia Charles and restore Prime MinisterPatrick John.
2. 1981: attempted coup by head of the Dominica Defence ForceFrederick Newton against Eugenia Charles. Newton would be sentenced to death and executed in 1986.

1. May 29, 1849:Pedro Santana overthrewManuel Jimenes.^[86]
2. August 4, 1865:José María Cabral overthrewPedro Antonio Pimentel.
3. October 5, 1876:Ignacio María González overthrewUlises Francisco Espaillat.
4. 1878:Buenaventura Báez was overthrown.
5. December 6, 1879:Gregorio Luperón overthrewCesáreo Guillermo.
6. May 2, 1902:Horacio Vásquez overthrewJuan Isidro Jimenes.^[87]
7. March 23, 1903:Alejandro Woss y Gil overthrewHoracio Vásquez.
8. November 24, 1903:Carlos Morales Languasco overthrewAlejandro Woss y Gil.
9. March 3, 1930:Rafael Trujillo andRafael Estrella Ureña overthrewHoracio Vásquez.^[88][89]
10. September 25, 1963:Elías Wessin y Wessin overthrewJuan Bosch, leading to theDominican Civil War.

1. 1925: Coup byLuis Telmo Paz y Miño.
2. 1935: Coup byFederico Páez.
3. 1963: Coup byRamón Castro Jijón.
4. 1972: Coup byGuillermo Rodríguez.
5. 1975: failed attempt by GeneralRaúl González Alvear.^[90][91]
6. 2000: Coup byLucio Gutiérrez.
7. 2010: Coup by theNational Police of Ecuador.

1. 1155 BC:Tiye, a Queen consort of Egypt, overthrew and killed PharaohRamesses III in a royal plot, but failed to change the line of succession.^[92]

1. 1240:As-Salih Ayyub overthrewAl-Adil II.^[93]
2. May 2, 1250:Baybars, with the support of Mamluk officers, overthrew and killed SultanAl-Muazzam Turanshah. The fallenAyyubid dynasty was replaced by theMamluk dynasty.^[94]

1. November 1259:Sayf ad-Din Qutuz overthrew the infant SultanAl-Mansur Ali.^[93]

1. 1879: The Nationalist Revolution marked the beginning of theBritish Occupation ofEgypt.
2. 1919: Attempt to stop theBritish Occupation ofEgypt. TheKingdom of Egypt was established and recognised as an independent state.
3. 1952:Muhammad Naguib and theFree Officers Movement overthrewFarouk of Egypt, ending theKingdom of Egypt.
4. February 27, 1954:Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrewMuhammad Naguib.
5. December 1957: PrinceMuhammad Abdel Moneim attempted to overthrowNasser and restore the monarchy.
6. June 1981: attempted military coup against Anwar Sadat.^[95]
7. 2011:Hosni Mubarak was overthrown.
8. 2013:Mohamed Morsi was overthrown byGeneral Abdel Fattah El Sisi.

1. December 6, 1927: An attempted military coup, financed by theMeléndez–Quiñónez dynasty leadersJorge Meléndez andQuiñónez Molina, failed to overthrowPío Romero Bosque.^[96]
2. December 2, 1931 byMaximiliano Hernández Martínez.
3. April 2, 1944: Failed military coup attempt.
4. October 20, 1944: Coup byOsmín Aguirre y Salinas.
5. December 14, 1948: Coup byManuel de Jesús Córdova.
6. October 26, 1960: A bloodless coup overthrew PresidentJosé María Lemus.
7. January 25, 1961: A coup overthrew the junta established just a few months before.
8. March 25–26, 1972: Failed military coup attempt.
9. October 15, 1979: A coup d'état brought theRevolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador to power.

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 byHenry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham to overthrowKing James I and replace him with his cousinLady Arbella Stuart.
6. November 5, 1605: Failed plot by a group of provincial EnglishCatholics, includingGuy Fawkes, who attempted to kill King James I and much of theProtestant aristocracy by blowing up theHouses of Parliament during theState Opening of Parliament.
7. 1641: Alleged and realRoyalist plans byKing Charles I to suppress theEnglish Parliament before theFirst English Civil War; exposed by Parliamentarians such asJohn Pym.
8. 1648: Parliamentarian troops under ColonelThomas Pride purge theLong Parliament of those opposed totrying King Charles I for treason after theEnglish Civil War, turning it into the republicanRump Parliament and leading directly to theabolition of the monarchy.
9. April 20, 1653:Oliver Cromwell, with 40 musketeers under the command ofCharles Worsley, entered theHouse of Commons and forcibly dissolved theRump Parliament, leading to Cromwell becomingLord Protector and instigatingmilitary rule.
10. 1654: AbortiveRoyalist conspiracy to assassinateLord ProtectorOliver Cromwell.
11. 1688–1689:William III of Orange invades England at theinvitation of the country's powerfulProtestants, deposing theCatholicJames II of England.

1. August 3, 1979:Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo overthrewFrancisco Macías Nguema.
2. March 7, 2004: A coup attempt is stopped before the plotters can arrive in country.
3. December 24, 2017: Attempted coup by foreign mercenaries.

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

1. December 1, 1924: failed Communist coup attempt.
2. March 12, 1934:Konstantin Päts conducted aself-coup and establishedauthoritarian rule.

1. 1910:RasTessema Nadew andFitawrawiHabte Giyorgis overthrew EmpressTaytu, regent of the incapacitatedEmperorMenelik II of Ethiopia.
2. 1916: A group of aristocrats, includingFitawrawiHabte Giyorgis andRasTafari Makonnen, overthrow EmperorIyasu V.
3. September 1928: Supporters of Empress Zewditu and Gugsa Wale attempted to removeTafari Makonnen from the line of succession.
4. December 13, 1960: A group failed to overthrow EmperorHaile Selassie during a state visit.
5. September 12, 1974:Aman Mikael Andom overthrew EmperorHaile Selassie I, establishing theDerg.
6. November 17, 1974:Tafari Benti overthrewAman Mikael Andom.
7. February 3, 1977:Mengistu Haile Mariam overthrewTafari Benti.
8. May 16, 1989: A failed coup attempt to overthrowMengistu Haile Mariam.
9. June 22, 2019: Failed coup against the regional government in theAmhara Region resulted in the death of several prominent Ethiopian civil and military officials.
10. October 7, 2024: Interim Regional Administration of Tigray presidentGetachew Reda was overthrown by theTigray People's Liberation Front.

1. May 14, 1987:Sitiveni Rabuka overthrewPrime MinisterTimoci Bavadra.
2. September 28, 1987:Sitiveni Rabuka overthrewGovernor General Ratu SirPenaia Ganilau andQueenElizabeth II. Fiji is proclaimed a republic.
3. May 19, 2000:George Speight overthrewMahendra Chaudhry.
4. December 5, 2006:Frank Bainimarama overthrewLaisenia Qarase.

1. January 27, 1918: The radical left-wingLabour Movement failed to overthrow theFinnish Senate.
2. February 27 to March 6, 1932: The radical nationalistLapua Movement failed to overthrow theFinnish government.

1. 1560: an attempt to gain control ofKing Francis II, and remove theGuise family.
2. 1567: A failed plot byLouis, Prince of Condé to kidnapKing Charles IX, caused theSecond French War of Religion.
3. 1718: a plot to deposePhilippe d'Orleans as regent and replace him withPhilip V of Spain.

1. August 10, 1792: TheParis Commune ralliedRepublicanfédérés andNational Guard troops to storm theTuileries Palace, effectively deposing theFrench monarchy and imprisoningKing Louis XVI.
2. May 31 to June 2, 1793:Montagnard-alignedsans-culottes arrested all leadingGirondin ministers and deputies and executed them.
3. July 26–28, 1794: A conspiracy of anti-RobespierristMontagnards formed an alliance to have de facto dictatorRobespierre and his associates arrested and executed; they escaped but were arrested again and executed.
4. April 1, 1795: Unarmed citizens occupied theNational Convention, but were driven out by theNational Guard without bloodshed.
5. October 5, 1795: A royalist attempt to seize power inParis during theVendée rebellion was crushed by theFrench Revolutionary Army under the command ofNapoleon Bonaparte.
6. May 1796: A radical attempt to overthrow the Directory led byGracchus Babeuf failed.
7. September 4, 1797: TheFrench Directory, with the support of the military, deposed the royalists.
8. May 11, 1798: TheFrench Directory dismissed 106Jacobin deputies from theCouncil of Five Hundred.
9. June 18, 1799: The Councils obtained the removal of three out of the five members of theFrench Directory through military pressure, leavingEmmanuel Joseph Sieyès as the dominant member of the French government.
10. November 9, 1799:Napoleon Bonaparte overthrew theFrench Directory and installed theFrench Consulate.
11. 10 October 1800: alleged plot to overthrow Napoleon.
12. February 1804: A foiled royalist plot to overthrow theNapoleonic Consulate.

1. October 23, 1812: GeneralClaude François de Malet failed to removeNapoleon from power while he was away on theRussian Campaign.

1. 1822: plot by Bonapartist officers in La Rochelle to overthrow the Bourbons.

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

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

1. May 13, 1958: A partial coup d'état led byPierre Lagaillarde, after whichCharles de Gaulle was brought back to power and established theFrench Fifth Republic.

1. April 21–26, 1961: A failed coup d'état against PresidentCharles de Gaulle intended to prevent a withdrawal fromFrench Algeria
2. 2021: French security agencies shut down an alleged coup plan led by conspiracy theoristRémy Daillet-Wiedemann [fr].^[97][98][99]

1. February 17–18, 1964: A group of Gabonese officers overthrewPresidentLeon Mba.
2. January 7, 2019: Gabonese soldiers seized the national radio in an attempted coup againstAli Bongo Ondimba.
3. August 30, 2023: Gabonese officers overthrew PresidentAli Bongo Ondimba after his recent victory on the2023 Gabonese general election.

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 overthrewDawda Jawara.
3. March 22, 2006: attempted coup by colonel Ndure Cham against Yahya Jammeh.^[100]
4. 2009: coup plot against Yahya Jammeh foiled.^[101]
5. December 30, 2014: a failed coup againstYahya Jammeh, led by former head of the presidential guards Lamin Sanneh.
6. December 20, 2022: A few soldiers allegedly tried to overthrow the government ofPresidentAdama Barrow.

1. 1832: A plot by Georgian nobles to assassinate members of theRussian local administration of Georgia and restore political independence under theBagrationi dynasty failed.
2. May 3, 1920: ABolshevik coup against theDemocratic Republic of Georgia failed.
3. December 22, 1991 to January 6, 1992: WarlordsTengiz Kitovani andJaba Ioseliani overthrewPresidentZviad Gamsakhurdia.
4. 2025 Georgia coup plot.^[102] the Georgian security services alleged the existence of an plot by Ukrainian military counterintelligence to overthrow the government.

1. January 1919: TheSpartacus League attempted to overthrow theSocial Democratic-dominatedCouncil of People's Deputies, but was suppressed by theReichswehr and theFreikorps.
2. March 1920: Various Freikorps led byWolfgang Kapp andWalther von Lüttwitz attempted to overthrow theWeimar Republic. They seized control ofBerlin but were suppressed with ageneral strike.
3. 1 October 1923: a failed attempt by the Black Reichswehr to overthrow theWeimar Republic.
4. November 8, 1923: A failed attempt byNazi Party leaderAdolf Hitler withErich Ludendorff to seize control ofBavaria and overthrowGustav Ritter von Kahr's state government inMunich was suppressed by theReichswehr and the police.
5. 5 August 1931: the Boxheim Documents, plans for a Nazi seizure of power were drawn up by NSDAP memberWerner Best. Plan abandoned after documents handed to Frankfurt police in November 1931.
6. 20 July 1932: President Paul von Hindenburg dissolved the government of the Free State of Prussia, handing control over it toFranz von Papen.

1. March 23, 1933: By theEnabling Act of 1933, the ChancellorAdolf Hitler assumed full powers in a self-coup.
2. 1938:Oster conspiracy: Plan byHans Oster and other high-ranking members of theWehrmacht to overthrow theNazi dictatorship and crownPrince William of Prussia asEmperor of a revivedHohenzollern Dynasty if Germany went to war withCzechoslovakia over theSudetenland was never carried out due to theMunich Agreement.
3. July 20, 1944: Members of theGerman resistance led byClaus von Stauffenberg attempted to assassinateAdolf Hitler and seize control from theNazi Party. They bombed theWolf's Lair inRastenburg,East Prussia, but failed to kill Hitler.

1. December 7, 2022: Police arrested 25 people for allegedly planning a coup. Part of the alleged plot included storming theBundestag, the German parliament building.^[103]
2. November 5, 2024: Police arrested 8 people for planning a coup to take over the state of Saxony.^[104]

1. February 24, 1966:Joseph Arthur Ankrah overthrewKwame Nkrumah.
2. April 17, 1967: Failed military coup.
3. January 13, 1972:Ignatius Kutu Acheampong overthrewKofi Abrefa Busia.
4. July 5, 1978:Fred Akuffo overthrewIgnatius Kutu Acheampong.
5. June 4, 1979:Jerry John Rawlings overthrewFred Akuffo.
6. December 31, 1981:Jerry John Rawlings overthrewHilla Limann.
7. September 20, 2019: 3 arrested for taking part in a coup plot.^[105]

1. 1831: A naval mutiny organized byAndreas Miaoulis against the government ofIoannis Kapodistrias led to the burning of the fleet on August 13 in the port ofPoros.
2. 1831: After the assassination of Kapodistrias, a revolt against his brotherAugustinos forced theSenate to take refuge inAstros.

1. September 3, 1843: KingOtto was forced to grant Greece its firstConstitution.
2. October 23, 1862: A coup led to the departure of King Otto andhis queen in the first step towards the1862 Greek head of state referendum, which resulted in Prince William of Denmark becomingGeorge I, the King of the Hellenes.
3. August 15, 1909: TheGoudi coup was staged against the government ofDimitrios Rallis, which broughtEleftherios Venizelos to the Greek political scene.
4. August 17, 1916: TheNational Defence coup d'état of Venizelos supporters in Thessaloniki led to the establishment of theProvisional Government of National Defence.
5. September 11, 1922: A coup led by ColonelsNikolaos Plastiras andStylianos Gonatas and Commander Dimitrios Phokas, culminated in the abdication of KingConstantine I.
6. October 11, 1923: Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt led by royalist officers.

1. June 25, 1925: A coup d'état brought GeneralTheodoros Pangalos to power.
2. August 22, 1926: GeneralGeorgios Kondylis overthrew General Pangalos.
3. March 6, 1933: Republican GeneralNikolaos Plastiras led an attempted coup.
4. March 1, 1935: General Plastiras and Venizelos attempted a coup d'état.
5. October 10, 1935: A coup, led by General Kondylis, signalled the end of theSecond Hellenic Republic and led to the restoration of KingGeorge II to the throne, according to areferendum.

1. August 4, 1936: GeneralIoannis Metaxas established the4th of August Regime.
2. July 28, 1938: A coup d'état attempt rebellion inCrete against the 4 August Regime.
3. May 31, 1951: Attempted coup d'état of a group of right-wing officers named Sacred Link of Greek Officers (IDEA).
4. April 21, 1967: A coup d'état, performed by a group of right-wing army officers led by Brigadier GeneralStylianos Pattakos and ColonelsGeorgios Papadopoulos andNikolaos Makarezos, established theRegime of the Colonels.
5. December 13, 1967: Greek counter-coup attempt led by KingConstantine II against the Regime of the Colonels. The failure of the counter-coup forced the King to leave Greece definitively.
6. May 23, 1973: The Velos mutiny against the Regime of the Colonels. The crew of the destroyerHNS Velos (D-16), under the command ofNikolaos Pappas, demanded political asylum inItaly, while the rest of the mutiny in Greek territory was suppressed.

1. November 25, 1973: The aftermath of theAthens Polytechnic uprising. The coup resulted in the removal of Colonel Papadopoulos by hardliners loyal to GeneralDimitrios Ioannidis.
2. February 24, 1975: A coup attempt by certain officers to overthrow the government ofKonstantinos Karamanlis.

1. March 13, 1979:Maurice Bishop overthrewEric Gairy.
2. October 14, 1983:Bernard Coard overthrewMaurice Bishop.^{[citation needed]}
3. October 19, 1983:Hudson Austin overthrewBernard Coard.

1. 1898:José Sisto overthrewFrancisco Portusach Martínez asGovernor of Guam after Martinez received the position following theAmerican capture of Guam during theSpanish–American War.
2. 1898:Venancio Roberto and several islanders overthrewJosé Sisto, who was eventually reappointed to his old position by theU.S. federal government.

1. March 24 to April 13, 1839: Ananti-Morazánpronunciamiento byRafael Carrera overthrewCarlos Salazar Castro and reinstated his predecessor,Mariano Rivera Paz.^[106]
2. December 5, 1921:José María Orellana overthrewCarlos Herrera.^[107]
3. December 16, 1930:Manuel María Orellana overthrewBaudilio Palma.^[107]
4. June 27, 1954:Carlos Castillo Armas overthrewJacobo Árbenz Guzmán'sRevolutionary Action Party government; assisted by theCIA inOperation PBSUCCESS.
5. October 1957: Guatemalan military oustsLuis Arturo González López in a coup, and installs athree-man junta headed byÓscar Mendoza Azurdia.^[107]
6. March 30–31, 1963:Enrique Peralta Azurdia overthrewMiguel Ydígoras Fuentes.^[107]
7. March 23, 1982:Efraín Ríos Montt overthrewFernando Romeo Lucas García.^[107]
8. August 8, 1983: Guatemalan military oustsEfraín Ríos Montt. He was replaced byOscar Mejia Victores.^[107]
9. May 11, 1988: A first coup attempt against Guatemalan presidentVinicio Cerezo took place.^[108]
10. May 9, 1989: A second coup attempt against Guatemalan presidentVinicio Cerezo took place.^[108]
11. May 25 to June 5, 1993: An attempted self-coup by PresidentJorge Serrano sparked a constitutional crisis.

1. April 3, 1984:Lansana Conté overthrewLouis Lansana Beavogui.
2. February 2–3, 1996: attempted coup by army dissidents to removeLansana Conté.
3. December 24, 2008:Moussa Dadis Camara overthrewAboubacar Somparé in what became known as the Christmas Coup.
4. September 5, 2021:Mamady Doumbouya overthrewAlpha Condé.

1. November 14, 1980:João Bernardo Vieira overthrewLuís Cabral.
2. 1985: Failed attempt by Vice-PresidentPaulo Correia to overthrow Vieira
3. June 7, 1998: An attempted coup d'état against the government ofPresidentJoão Bernardo Vieira was led byBrigadier GeneralAnsumane Mané
4. May 7, 1999:Ansumane Mané overthrewJoão Bernardo Vieira.
5. September 14, 2003:Veríssimo Correia Seabra overthrewKumba Ialá.
6. 2008: Assassination of Vieira and army chiefTagme Na Waie
7. December 27, 2011: Attempted coup.
8. April 12, 2012: Mutinous troops overthrew the interim government.
9. February 1, 2022: An attempt to overthrow the government failed.
10. November 30, 2023: An attempted coup d'etat was led by army officers against PresidentUmaro Sissoco Embaló.
11. October 31, 2025: a group of officers were arrested for allegedly planning a coup.^[109]
12. 31 October 2025: Gunfire reported in the capital as reports that GeneralDahaba Na Walna failed to seize power from Embaló.
13. 26 November 2025: On 26 November 2025, gunfire was heard in parts ofBissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau, with the country's presidentUmaro Sissoco Embaló saying that he had been arrested as part of a coup d'état carried out by the army chief of staff and military officers declaring "total control" over the country and establishing theHigh Military Command for the Restoration of Order. The coup occurred days after the2025 Guinea-Bissau general election held on 23 November, in which Embaló was running for reelection.

1. October 17, 1806:Henri Christophe andAlexandre Pétion overthrewEmperorJacques I.
2. February 13, 1843:Charles Rivière-Hérard overthrewJean-Pierre Boyer.
3. May 3, 1844:Philippe Guerrier overthrewCharles Rivière-Hérard.
4. 1840s:Rivierists' conspiracy, failed attempts by supporters ofCharles Rivière-Hérard to restore him to power.^[110]
5. March 1, 1846:Jean-Baptiste Riché overthrewJean-Louis Pierrot.
6. January 15, 1859:Fabre Geffrard overthrew EmperorFaustin I.
7. 1859–1867: In his 8-year presidency,Fabre Geffrard survived a series of coup attempts.^[111]
8. August 26, 1867:Sylvain Salnave overthrewFabre Geffrard.
9. December 27, 1869:Nissage Saget overthrewSylvain Salnave.
10. April 16, 1876:Pierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal overthrewMichel Domingue.
11. March 14–17, 1878: Louis Tanis failed to overthrow the Boisrond-Canal government.^[112]
12. October 2–3, 1879:Lysius Salomon overthrewJoseph Lamothe.^[113][114]
13. October 19, 1888:François Denys Légitime overthrewLysius Salomon.
14. October 17, 1889:Florvil Hyppolite overthrewFrançois Denys Légitime.
15. December 21, 1902:Pierre Nord Alexis overthrewPierre Théoma Boisrond-Canal.
16. December 2, 1908:François C. Antoine Simon overthrewPierre Nord Alexis.
17. August 3, 1911:Cincinnatus Leconte overthrewAntoine Simon.
18. January 27, 1914:Oreste Zamor, along his brotherCharles Zamor, overthrew the Haitian presidentMichel Oreste.^[115]
19. October 29, 1914:Joseph Davilmar Théodore overthrewOreste Zamor.
20. February 25, 1915:Vilbrun Guillaume Sam overthrewJoseph Davilmar Théodore.
21. July 28, 1915: TheMulatto uprising overthrew and killedVilbrun Guillaume Sam.
22. December 12, 1937: A failed plot to toppleSténio Vincent and installDémosthènes Pétrus Calixte as president.^[116]
23. January 11, 1946: Themilitary junta overthrewÉlie Lescot.
24. May 10, 1950:Paul Eugène Magloire led a coup againstDumarsais Estimé.
25. April 2, 1957:Léon Cantave overthrewFranck Sylvain.
26. June 14, 1957:Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau overthrewDaniel Fignolé.
27. July 28–29, 1958: A coup attempt led byAlix Pasquet againstFrançois Duvalier failed.
28. April 24, 1970: A coup attempt led by Octave Cayard againstFrançois Duvalier failed.
29. February 6, 1986:Jean-Claude Duvalier went into exile. He was replaced by the National Governing Council.
30. June 20, 1988:Henri Namphy overthrewLeslie Manigat.
31. September 17, 1988:Prosper Avril overthrewHenri Namphy.
32. April 1–2, 1989: A coup attempt against Prosper Avril failed.
33. January 6–7, 1991: A coup attempt againstErtha Pascal-Trouillot byRoger Lafontant failed.
34. September 30, 1991:Raoul Cédras overthrewJean-Bertrand Aristide.
35. December 17, 2001: A coup attempt against Jean-Bertrand Aristide by ex-soldiers failed.
36. February 5–29, 2004:PresidentJean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted during his second term.

1. June 30, 1887: A group of militiamen andReform Party politicians forced KingKalākaua to dissolve theWalter M. Gibson-led government and to sign aconstitution that would strip the monarchy of most of its power and instead give power to an American-European-Native Hawaiian coalition government.
2. October 1887 to January 1888: Then-PrincessLiliʻuokalani,Robert William Wilcox,Charles Burnett Wilson, and as many as 300 Royal Guard conspirators had plotted to overthrowKalākaua and replace him with Lili'uokalani as Queen in the face of the1887 Constitution. The plot was foiled around 48 hours before the rebellion would have begun. It was the first royalist coup attempt involving Wilcox.
3. July 30, 1889: An armed coup attempt led byRobert William Wilcox attempted to reinstate the1864 Constitution, thus returning powers to KingKalākaua after the Hawaiian monarchy had been made a largely ceremonial one by the1887 Constitution. The attempt failed and ended with 7-8 rebel deaths and 70 arrests (including Wilcox). It was Wilcox's second attempt (and the first to result in an active armed rebellion) to return power to the monarchy.
4. March 1892: A third coup plot byRobert William Wilcox was cancelled after Charles Wilson put the kingdom on high alert, and was officially foiled by a raid in May.
5. January 17, 1893: A coup d'état against QueenLiliʻuokalani on the island ofOahu by subjects of theHawaiian Kingdom,United States citizens, and foreign residents residing inHonolulu. A majority of the insurgents were foreigners.^[117] They prevailed upon American ministerJohn L. Stevens to call in theU.S. Marines to protect United States' interests, an action that effectively buttressed the rebellion. The revolutionaries established theRepublic of Hawaii, but their ultimate goal was theannexation of the islands to the United States, whichoccurred in 1898.
6. January 6–9, 1895: Following the overthrow of the monarchy,Robert William Wilcox led a fourth and final coup attempt and second armed rebellion in an attempt to reinstate QueenLili'uokalani. After three battles at Diamond Head, Mōʻiliʻili and Mānoa, the coup had officially failed, and Wilcox, Lili'uokalani and several other royalists were formally charged, although many were pardoned by PresidentSanford B. Dole.

1. May 10, 1827:José Justo Milla overthrewDionisio de Herrera.
2. February 8, 1904: A self-coup was conducted by PresidentManuel Bonilla, supported by the mercenary leaderLee Christmas, leading to the closure ofHonduras National Congress.^[118]
3. October 1940: A coup attempt againstTiburcio Carías Andino was led by General Salvador Cisneros andLiberal Party members.^[119]
4. November 21, 1943: A plot coordinated by anti-Carías dissidents, including military officers and members of theLiberal andNational parties, failed to overthrowTiburcio Carías Andino.^[119]
5. October 21, 1956: Amilitary junta toppled PresidentJulio Lozano Díaz.^[120]
6. July 12, 1959: A coup attempt againstRamón Villeda Morales was led by Armando Velásquez Cerrato.^[120]
7. October 3, 1963:Oswaldo López Arellano led his first military coup, oustingRamón Villeda Morales.^[120]
8. December 4, 1972:Oswaldo López Arellano led his second military coup, oustingRamón Ernesto Cruz.^[120]
9. April 22, 1975:Oswaldo López Arellano was overthrown by the Honduran military. He was replaced byJuan Alberto Melgar Castro.^[120]
10. August 7–8, 1978:Juan Alberto Melgar Castro was overthrown by the Honduran military. He was replaced by a military junta led byPolicarpo Paz García and two other officers.^[120]
11. June 28, 2009:Manuel Zelaya was overthrown by the Honduran military.

1. 1670: An attempt by Hungarian and Croat nobles to overthrow the Habsburgs.
2. March 21–22, 1919: Establishment of the Hungarian Soviet Republic withMihály Károlyi removed as head of state.
3. August 7, 1919:István Friedrich overthrew theMSZDP government ofGyula Peidl.
4. March 26, 1921: deposed kingCharles arrived from abroad to re-assume the throne; the ruling regentMiklós Horthy convinced him to backtrack.
5. October 20, 1921: deposed kingCharles again arrived in the country to re-assume the throne. Following skirmishes with some 20 soldiers killed, he resigned and withdrew abroad.
6. May 1, 1936: attempt by Hungarian Nazi Party leaderZoltán Böszörmény to seize power.
7. October 15–16, 1944:Ferenc Szálasi and theArrow Cross Party, supported by theWehrmacht and theWaffen-SS, overthrew RegentMiklós Horthy to prevent him from signing an armistice with theAllied Powers.
8. May 28–31, 1947:Mátyás Rákosi and theHungarian Communist Party overthrewFerenc Nagy's government by arresting members of theNational Assembly.
9. November 4, 1956: theSoviet Army invaded Hungary and overthrewImre Nagy, replacing him withJános Kádár.

1. June 25, 1809: The crew of a British trade vessel arrest and overthrow thegovernor of Iceland after being banned from conducting trade on the island. The Danish adventurerJørgen Jørgensen declares himself "Protector and Supreme commander of Iceland", stating his intentions of creating an independent republic ruled by Iceland'sAlthing. The coup was overturned two months later by the commander of a British warship.

1. 185 BC [simple]:Pushyamitra Shunga overthrew and killed EmperorBrihadratha Maurya. The fallenMauryan dynasty was replaced by theShunga dynasty.^[121]

1. 73 BC:Vasudeva Kanva overthrew and killed EmperorDevabhuti. The fallenShunga dynasty was replaced by theKanva dynasty.^[122]

1. June 13, 1290:Jalal-ud-Din Khalji overthrew theMamluks in favor of theKhaljis.^[123]
2. July 19, 1296:Jalal-ud-Din Khalji was deposed and killed by assassins sent by his nephewAlauddin Khalji, who usurps the throne in opposition to the rightful heirRuknuddin Ibrahim.^[124]
3. July 9, 1320: A group of conspirators, includingKhusrau Khan, committed the regicide of SultanMubarak Shah I and deposed theKhaljis.^[125]

1. 1626: A coup attempt led byMahabat Khan against EmperorJahangir fails.^[126]
2. February 28, 1719: TheSayyid brothers overthrew and killed EmperorFarrukhsiyar. He was replaced byRafi ud-Darajat.^[127]

1. June 13, 1954: This was a tense but ultimately non-lethal political coup inYanam,India, in 1954. It occurred as India andFrance held ongoing negotiations regarding the future ofFrench settlements in India.
2. June 25, 1975:Indira Gandhi enacts an authoritarian state of emergency that would ultimately last for 2 years.

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 theIndonesian National Revolution. It ended with the release of Sjahrir and a re-structure of both the Republican government and the army.^[128]
2. March 3, 1947: An attempted coup against the Indonesian republican administration inWest Sumatra during theIndonesian National Revolution by Islamic militias. The coup failed and its leaders were arrested
3. January 22–23, 1950: A coup d'état byRaymond Westerling'sLegion of the Just Ruler (APRA) to captureBandung andJakarta, with the aim to overthrowSukarno'sunitaryRepublic of Indonesia. Westerling's forces succeeded in capturing Bandung in the early hours of January 23, 1950.^[129]
4. July 5, 1959: ThePresidential Decree of 5 July 1959 was issued by PresidentSukarno in the face of the inability of theConstitutional Assembly of Indonesia to achieve the two-thirds majority to reimpose the1945 Constitution. Army chief of staffAbdul 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 was blamed on theCommunist Party of Indonesia.^[130]
6. March 11, 1966: GeneralSuharto seized power and slowly overthrew PresidentSukarno until 1967^[131] (seeTransition to the New Order).

1. 552 BC: Persian Revolt:Cyrus the Great led thePersis to declare independence from and then conquer theMedian Empire, establishing theAchaemenid Empire.
2. 522 BC:Darius I revolted againstBardiya.
3. 338 BC:Artaxerxes III and his family were assassinated byBagoas.Artaxerxes IV became the newKing of Kings.
4. 336 BC: Bagoas killed Artaxerxes IV by poison.Darius III ascended to the throne.

1. 309: Thenobles assassinatedAdur Narseh. His infant brother,Shapur II, became the newKing of Kings.
2. 420: The nobles assassinated and deposedYazdegerd I.
3. 488:Sukhra deposedBalash in favor of the shah's nephew,Kavad I.
4. 496: The nobles deposedKavad I and installedJamasp as the newshah of shahs of Iran andAniran.
5. 590: Coup d'état carried out byVistahm andVinduyih againstHormizd IV, in favor of his son,Khosrow II.
6. 590: GeneralBahram Chobin revolted against theSassanian government and capturedCtesiphon.Khosrow II fled toConstantinople.
7. 628:Kavad II overthrew his father,Khosrow II.
8. April 27, 629: KingArdashir III was executed in the Siege of Ctesiphon by the military commanderShahrbaraz.
9. 631:Rostam Farrokhzad capturedCtesiphon, killedAzarmidokht, and installedBoran as the queen of queens of Iran andAniran.

1. 1732:Nader Shah overthrewTahmasp II.
2. 1733: Governor of theKuhgiluyeh's rebelled against theSafavid Empire.
3. 1736:Abbas III, the nominal ruler of Iran, was deposed byNader Shah. This marked the official end of theSafavid dynasty of Iran.

1. 1744:Beylerbey ofFars province's rebelled againstNader Shah.
2. 1747:Nader Shah was assassinated in support ofAdel Shah.
3. 1748:Ebrahim Afshar defeated and blindedAdel Shah, declaring himself Shah in opposition to Shakrokh Shah.^{[clarification needed]}
4. 1748:Ebrahim Afshar was assassinated onShahrukh Afshar's orders.

1. 1798:Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar was assassinated in support ofSadiq Khan Shaqaqi.
2. 1908: TheMajlis were bombarded byVladimir Liakhov in support ofMohammad Ali Shah Qajar.

1. 1921: Coup d'état was led byReza Khan Mirpanj (later Reza Shah Pahlavi) andZia'eddin Tabatabaee during the reign ofAhmad Shah Qajar.
2. 1953: Coup d'état was carried out againstPrime MinisterMohammed Mossadegh in support ofMohammad Reza Pahlavi; sponsored by theCIA andMI6.

1. 1980: A coup d'état by a group ofIranian Armed Forces officers against thenewly establishedIslamic regime failed.

1. October 20, 1936:Bakr Sidqi overthrewYasin al-Hashimi.
2. April 1, 1941:Rashid Ali al-Gaylani overthrew 'Abd al-Ilah with the support of theAxis Powers, leading to theAnglo-Iraqi War.
3. July 14, 1958:Abdul-Karim Qassim overthrew KingFaisal II, ending theHashemite monarchy in Iraq.
4. March 8, 1959:Abd al-Wahab al-Shawaf attempted to overthrow premierAbdul-Karim Qassim, with support from theUnited Arab Republic.
5. February 8, 1963:Abdul Salam Arif andAhmed Hassan al-Bakr overthrewAbdul-Karim Qassim.
6. July 3, 1963: failed uprising by the Iraqi Communist Party and elements of the Iraqi Army to overthrow the government.
7. November 11, 1963: Pro-Nasserist officers of theIraqi Armed Forces ousted theBa'ath Party from government.
8. June 29, 1966:Arif Abd ar-Razzaq attempted to overthrowAbdul Rahman Arif.
9. July 17, 1968:Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr overthrewAbdul Rahman Arif, establishing theBa'athist dictatorship.
10. June 1996: A failed US-backed coup to overthrowSaddam Hussein.

1. October 28–31, 1922:Fascist coup d'état in whichBenito Mussolini and hisNational Fascist Party'sBlackshirt militias attempted to overthrow Prime MinisterLuigi Facta with an insurrection in Rome; it was successful when KingVictor Emmanuel III refused to allowFacta to declare a state of martial law.
2. July 24, 1943: Coup to remove Fascist dictatorBenito Mussolini asPrime Minister of theKingdom of Italy and replace him with MarshalPietro Badoglio. CountDino Grandi and theGrand Council of Fascism voted overwhelmingly to askKingVictor 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 byneo-fascist groups led byJunio Valerio Borghese, a formerItalian Royal Navy commander ofWorld War II, failed after theCIA andNATO refused to support it.
5. 1974: A planned coup by former Italian PartisanEdgardo Sogno.

1. December 24, 1999:Robert Guéï overthrewHenri Konan Bédie.
2. 7–8 January 2001: attempted military coup againstLaurent Gbagbo.
3. September 19, 2002: failed coup to remove Laurent Gbagbo from power. the attempt resulted in civil war.
4. June 12, 2012: attempt to overthrowAlassane Ouattara and reinstate Laurent Gbagbo as Ivorian President.

1. Lunar August, 456 AD: Historical texts state thatMayuwa no Ōkimi (ja:眉輪王) assassinated reigningŌkimiEmperor Ankō (安康天皇) over the alleged killing of his father. According to theNihon Shoki, the influentialŌomiKatsuragi no Tsubura was also killed by arson, whereas theKojiki 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 thethrone, insteadEmperor Yuryaku ascended three months later.
2. 479 AD: An attempt by Prince Hoshikawa to gain the throne failed.
3. 498 AD:ŌomiHeguri no Matori takes overYamato Japan's government in a briefly successful coup upon the death ofEmperor Ninken, before being defeated and killed byOtomo no Kanamura, who raisedEmperor Buretsu to the throne.

Over a century later, in 632 A.D. the titleŌkimi was posthumously reassigned to the termTenno. 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 byFujiwara no Nakamaro, to overthrow RetiredEmpress Kōken and the monkDōkyō failed.
3. 1156:Emperor Go-Shirakawa defeated his rival JōkōEmperor Sutoku.
4. 1160: TheMinamoto clan took up arms against theTaira clan. The Taira clan emerged victorious.
5. 1184: Amidst theGenpei War,Kiso Yoshinaka ambushed Hōjūjidono, confiningEmperor Go-Toba and CloisteredEmperor Go-Shirakawa.
6. 1551: Sue Takafusa (later known asSue Harukata) launched a rebellion againstŌuchi Yoshitaka, hegemondaimyō of western Japan, leading the latter to commitseppuku.
7. 1864–65: The Mito Rebellion ofTakeda Kōunsai was a rebellion in theMito Domain in support of thesonnō jōi policy.
8. 1866–68: ASamurai uprising led to the overthrow of theTokugawa Shogunate and the establishment of a "modern" parliamentary, Western-style system under theMeiji era.
9. March 1931: An aborted coup by theSakurakai to overthrow Prime MinisterOsachi Hamaguchi and form a new government was led by Army MinisterKazushige Ugaki.
10. October 21, 1931: An aborted coup by theSakurakai.
11. May 15, 1932: A failed coup by members of theImperial Japanese Navy resulted in the assassination ofPrime MinisterInukai Tsuyoshi.
12. November 1934: A coup by members of theImperial Japanese Army failed to achieve aShōwa Restoration.
13. February 26, 1936: A failed coup was led by theImperial Way Faction in theImperial Japanese Army againstPrime MinisterKeisuke Okada's government.
14. August 14–15, 1945: A coup against theEmperor Hirohito by members of theJapanese War Ministry and theImperial Guard opposed to surrendering to theAllied Powers at the end ofWorld War II failed after they were unable to convince theImperial Japanese Army General Staff and theEastern District Army to join.
15. August 24, 1945: A failed coup by dissidents opposed to surrender was led byIsao Okazaki inMatsue.
16. July 1952: Coup plot byTukushiro Hattori and elements of theNational Safety Agency to assassinate Prime MinisterShigeru Yoshida and replace him withIchiro Hatoyama. Coup aborted.^[132]
17. December 12, 1961: A coup attempt by retired right wing members of theImperial Japanese Army was aborted through a police raid.
18. November 25, 1970: A coup by authorYukio Mishima, who attempted to convince theJapan Self-Defense Forces to overturn the1947 Constitution, was aborted.

1. April 13, 1957: confrontation between royalists and Arab Nationalist units in the Jordanian Army, allegedly part of a coup attempt.
2. 1958: Attempted coup against King Hussein by Pan-Arabist officers.
3. 1970: APalestine Liberation Organization coup attempt againstKing Hussein failed. King Hussein retaliated with Black September conflict, driving the PLO toLebanon.^[133]
4. 2021: A coup attempt byPrince Hamzah bin Hussein to overthrow his half-brother, KingAbdullah II, failed.

1. August 1, 1982: An attempted coup was led byKenya Air Force personnel to overthrow theDaniel arap Moi government. They capturedEastleigh Air Base and parts ofNairobi before collapsing.

1. 1956: attempt to remove Kim Il-Sung by pro-Chinese and pro-Soviet factions of the Korean Workers Party.
2. ca. 1967: Attempt by faction of former anti-Japanese guerrillas was led byPak Kum-chol to overthrowKim Il-sung to end thecult of personality, and introduce economic reforms. This led to a crackdown and purges in theKorean Workers' Party, as well as the implementation of theTen Principles for the Establishment of a Monolithic Ideological System.

1. May 16, 1961:Park Chung Hee overthrew theSecond Republic of Korea led byYun Po-seon and replaced it with theSupreme Council for National Reconstruction.
2. October 17, 1972:PresidentPark Chung Hee led a coup to restore total presidential authority after his party underperformed in elections, creating theFourth Republic of Korea.
3. December 12, 1979: Major GeneralChun Doo-hwan of theDefense Security Command arrestedRepublic of Korea Army Chief of StaffJeong Seung-hwa and his allies, creating theFifth Republic of Korea.
4. May 17, 1980: General Chun Doo-Hwan extended martial law, banned political activities, and forced universities to close.
5. December 3, 2024: PresidentYoon Suk Yeol enacts martial law, attemptingself-coup to suppress all political activities including that of theNational Assembly along with a ban on strike action and the media.^[134] The attempt was unsuccessful with the National Assembly convening despite it and voting unanimously to lift the declaration.^[135]

1. May 17, 1896:Mubarak Al-Sabah killed SheikhMuhammad Al-Sabah and seized the throne.^[136]
2. February 15, 2024:EmirMishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah temporarily suspended theNational Assembly.
3. May 10, 2024: Following the opposition gaining a majority in the2024 Kuwaiti general election, Emir Mishal dissolved the National Assembly for the second time in 2024 and partially suspended the Constitution indefinitely.

1. May 6, 2023: Kyrgyz authorities arrested 30 people on charges of plotting a coup against PresidentSadyr Japarov.^[137]
2. July 2024: Kyrgyz intelligence services foiled a planned coup.^[138]
3. November 13, 2024: 7 people arrested on charges of organising a coup.^[139]

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

1. April 16, 1919: A coup inLiepaja against theLatvian Provisional Government by the Germans.^[140]
2. May 15, 1934:Kārlis Ulmanis dissolved theSaeima (Latvia's parliament) and established a dictatorship.

1. December 31, 1961: A failed coup attempt was conducted by theSyrian Socialist Nationalist Party.^[141]
2. March 11, 1976: A failed coup attempt against Lebanese presidentSuleiman Frangieh was led by Abdel Aziz al-Ahdab.^[142]
3. January 15, 1986:Samir Geagea removesElie Hobeika as head of theLebanese Forces.

1. January 30, 1970: Aself-coup was conducted byPrime MinisterLeabua Jonathan.
2. January 20, 1986:Justin Metsing Lekhanya overthrewLeabua Jonathan.
3. November 12, 1990:Justin Metsing Lekhanya overthrew KingMoshoeshoe II of Lesotho.
4. April 30, 1991:Elias Phisoana Ramaema overthrewJustin Metsing Lekhanya.
5. August 17,1994: self-coup byKing Letsie III.
6. August 30, 2014: A failed coup attempt.

1. October 26, 1871: PresidentEdward James Roye was deposed by the people ofMonrovia.^[143]
2. April 12, 1980: Master SergeantSamuel K. Doe overthrew PresidentWilliam R. Tolbert Jr.
3. 1985: attempted coup by GeneralThomas Quiwonkpa against Samuel K. Doe.
4. September 9, 1990:Prince Johnson overthrew PresidentSamuel K. Doe.^[144][145]
5. September 15, 1994: attempted coup by dissident faction within the Liberian military.

1. September 1, 1969:Muammar Gaddafi and theFree Officers Movement overthrow KingIdris of Libya. The coup resulted in the abolition of theSenussi monarchy and the establishment of a republic under the rule of theRevolutionary Command Council (RCC).
2. December 7, 1969: An attempted coup by defense minister Moussa Ahmed and interior minister Adam al-Hawaz failed to overthrowMuammar Gaddafi.^[146]
3. 1970: Counter-coup plots involving Abdullah al-Abid al-Senussi andAhmed al-Senussi, two distant cousins ofKing Idris, were foiled by Gaddafi's RCC regime.^[147]
4. August 13, 1975: An attempted coup byBashir Hawadi andUmar Muhayshi failed to oustMuammar Gaddafi.^[146]
5. May 8, 1984: An attempted coup launched by theNational Front for the Salvation of Libya failed to overthrow Gaddafi regime.^[146]
6. October 22, 1993: A failed coup againstMuammar Gaddafi was led byWarfalla officers.
7. April 17, 2013: A first coup attempt against Libyan prime ministerAli Zeidan was led byGaddafi loyalists.^[148]
8. October 10, 2013: A second coup attempt against Libyan prime ministerAli Zeidan was led by Abdel-Moneim al-Hour.^[149]
9. April and October 2014: Coup against Prime MinisterAli Zeidan (the first coup) and against Prime MinisterAbdullah al-Thani (the second coup) by Major GeneralKhalifa Haftar failed.
10. October 14, 2016: A failed coup against Prime MinisterFayez al-Sarraj was led by former prime ministerKhalifa al-Ghawil.

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

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 StateJózef Piłsudski to overthrow the existing Lithuanian government of Prime MinisterMykolas Sleževičius, and install a pro-Polish cabinet that would agree to a union withPoland.
2. December 17, 1926: PresidentKazys Grinius was overthrown andAntanas Smetona became the head of state.
3. September 9, 1927: An attempt to overthrow theLithuanian Nationalist Union and to re-establish the previous government failed.
4. June 6–7, 1934: A failed coup d'état was led by the fascistIron Wolf.

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

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

1. October 11, 1972:Gabriel Ramanantsoa overthrewPhilibert Tsiranana.
2. February 5, 1975:Richard Ratsimandrava overthrewGabriel Ramanantsoa.
3. November 18, 2006: An alleged Coup attempt took place when retired army GeneralAndrianafidisoa, also known as Fidy (and a previous Director General ofOMNIS), declaredmilitary rule.^[150]
4. March 17, 2009:Andry Rajoelina overthrewMarc Ravalomanana.
5. October 12–14, 2025:CAPSAT, a unit of theMadagascar Armed Forces, joinedanti-government protesters before announcing control of the entire military, resulting inAndry Rajoelina fleeing the country and being overthrown.

1. 2020–2022 Malaysian political crisis

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 eliteSpecial Air Service commandos and sent them to assassinate PresidentGayoom. The mercenaries usedSri 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.^[151]
2. 1988: Abdullah Luthufi, assisted byPLOTE, staged a coup to overthrow the government ofMaumoon Abdul Gayoom. They seized control of the capital until theIndian Navy retook the city from the rebels.

1. November 19, 1968:Moussa Traoré overthrewModibo Keïta.
2. March 26, 1991:Amadou Toumani Touré overthrewMoussa Traoré.
3. March 22, 2012: The military overthrewAmadou Toumani Touré.
4. April 30 to May 1, 2012: attempted counter coup against Amadou Toumani Tourre
5. August 18, 2020: The military overthrewIbrahim Boubacar Keïta.
6. 2021: The military overthrewBah N'daw.
7. May 17, 2022: Malian Military Junta claimed to have stopped a coup attempt led by an "unnamed NATO country."^[152]
8. August 11, 2025: dozens of soldiers, including GeneralAbass Dembélé and GeneralNema Sagara, as well as a French national, were arrested on charges of planning to overthrow the Malian military Junta.^[153][154]

1. July 10, 1978:Mustafa Ould Salek overthrewMoktar Ould Daddah.
2. April 6, 1979:Ahmed Ould Bouceif andMohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla overthrewMustafa Ould Salek.
3. January 4, 1980:Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla overthrewMohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly.
4. 16 March 1981: attempt byAlliance For a Democratic Mauritania to overthrow Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla.
5. December 12, 1984:Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya overthrewMohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla.
6. 8–9 June 2003: coup attempt bySaleh Ould Hanenna againstMaaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya.
7. August 3, 2005:Ely Ould Mohamed Vall overthrewMaaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya.
8. August 6, 2008:Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz overthrewSidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

1. 1799:Criollo civil servants plotted to overthrow theSpanish Empire and establish an independent republic; regarded as a precursor to theWar of Mexican Independence.
2. 1808:Gabriel J. de Yermo overthrew the viceroy ofNew SpainJosé de Iturrigaray.

1. May 18, 1822 [es]: RegentAgustín 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.^[155]
2. 1823:Antonio López de Santa Anna launched a republican rebellion, culminating in the abdication of Agustín I and the end of theFirst Mexican Empire.

1. December 1827 [es]: A coup attempt by Vice PresidentNicolás Bravo againstGuadalupe Victoria failed.
2. 1828 [es]:Vicente Guerrero led a successful coup against President-electManuel Gómez Pedraza.
3. December 1829 [es]: Vice PresidentAnastasio Bustamante overthrewVicente Guerrero.
4. 1832: Santa Anna's led his first coup againstAnastasio 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 [es]: Santa Anna's led his second coup againstAnastasio Bustamante.
7. December 6, 1844: Congressional forces overthrewValentín Canalizo andAntonio López de Santa Anna, handing the presidency over toJosé Joaquín de Herrera.
8. December 30, 1845:Mariano Paredes overthrewJosé Joaquín de Herrera.
9. August 4, 1846:José Mariano Salas overthrew Vice PresidentNicolás Bravo and the absent PresidentMariano Paredes.
10. March 1847:Antonio López de Santa Anna overthrewValentín Gómez Farías.
11. 1852–1853 [es]:Santanistas launched a rebellion that overthrewMariano Arista.
12. 1854–1855:Juan Álvarez overthrewAntonio López de Santa Anna.
13. December 17, 1857:Ignacio Comonfort conducts a self-coup by nullifying the1857 Constitution.
14. October 19, 1871 [es]: A coup attempt againstBenito Juárez fails.
15. 1876:Porfirio Díaz overthrewSebastián Lerdo de Tejada.

1. 1911:Francisco I. Madero led a coup againstPorfirio Díaz (andFrancisco León de la Barra).
2. February 19, 1913:Victoriano Huerta overthrewFrancisco I. Madero.
3. May 21, 1920: Sonoran generalsÁlvaro Obregón,Plutarco Elías Calles, andAdolfo de la Huerta launched a rebellion that culminated in the overthrow and death ofVenustiano Carranza.
4. 1929: A coup attempt byJosé Gonzalo Escobar againstEmilio Portes Gil andPlutarco Elías Calles failed.
5. 1938 [es]: A coup attempt bySaturnino Cedillo againstLázaro Cárdenas failed.
6. 1940:Juan Andreu Almazán attempted a coup to prevent the inauguration of president-electManuel Ávila Camacho.

1. February 13, 2023: allegations of aRussia-backed coup attempt.^[156]

1. October 16, 2016: There was anattempted coup by opposition andRussian agents against the government ofMilo Đukanović on the day ofparliamentary election.^[157]

1. 1907–1908: Sultan Abdelaziz was deposed by his brother Abd al-Hafid.
2. July 10, 1971: A coup attempt byM'hamed Ababou andMohamed Medbouh againstHassan II of Morocco failed.
3. August 16, 1972: A coup attempt byMohamed Oufkir againstHassan II of Morocco failed.
4. 1973: Coup attempt by theNational Union of Popular Forces.

1. 1837: KingBagyidaw was deposed by a coup led by his brotherTharrawaddy Min.^[158]
2. 1853: KingPagan Min was deposed by a coup led by his brotherMindon Min.^[158]
3. October 1958: A split within theAFPFL threatened to provoke a coup from field officers. To settle the situation,U Nu invited the military to form acaretaker government. From 1958 to 1960, the caretaker government under GeneralNe Win was formed. The caretaker government initially appeared to be interested in buildingstate capacity. It reduced corruption, improved bureaucratic efficiency, and managed to deal with the pocket armies.
4. March 1, 1962:Ne Win overthrewU Nu.^[159]
5. September 18, 1988:Saw Maung overthrewMaung Maung Kha.^[160]
6. February 1, 2021:Min Aung Hlaing overthrewAung San Suu Kyi.^[161][162]

1. 1559: Drabya Shah killed theKhadka,Raja by his own hand with a sword and began the rule of his dynasty underShahas.^[163]
2. October 31, 1846: A political massacre organized byJung Bahadur Rana reduced theShah Monarch to a figurehead and made the office of prime minister and other powers hereditary toRanas.^[164][165]
3. 1882: Chautariya Colonel Ambar Bikram Shah and his Gorkhali aide attempted to assassinateRanodip Singh. They failed and were killed in Teku by the Ranas.
4. November 2, 1885:Ranodip Singh Kunwar was assassinated byBir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana.^[166]
5. June 27, 1901:Chandra Shumsher Rana overthrewDev Shumsher Rana.^[167]
6. December 15, 1960:King Mahendra dismissed theparliament of Nepal, arrested then-Prime MinisterB. P. Koirala, and outlawed political parties.^[168][169]
7. February 1, 2005:King Gyanendra dismissed theparliament of Nepal and declared a state of emergency, assuming direct rule.^[170]

1. July 24, 1577: The capture of the Namur citadel by DonJuan of Austria has been considered a coup against the States-General of the Netherlands.
2. October 28, 1577: A coup was led by radical CalvinistsJan van Hembyse andFrançois van Ryhove against the stadtholder of Flanders,Philippe III de Croÿ (Duke of Aarschot). They founded theCalvinist Republic of Ghent.
3. September 7, 1578: A coup d'état was led byJohann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg against the Hof van Gelre en Zutphen.^[171]
4. January 23, 1579: A coup d'état was led byJohann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg and four Gueldrian noblemen against the Hof van Gelre en Zutphen.^[172]

1. August 1618: Coup d'état was led byMaurice, Prince of Orange.
2. July–August 1650: Attack on Amsterdam and imprisonment of rival regent was led byWilliam II, Prince of Orange.
3. August 20, 1672 [nl]: An Orangist coup was carried out against theLoevestein government.

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

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 byTroelstra against theDutch government.

1. August 4, 1851: General CommanderJosé Trinidad Muñoz led a coup against Supreme DirectorLaureano Pineda.
2. 1856: A coup was led byWilliam Walker.
3. 1925–1926:Emiliano Chamorro Vargas led a successful coup againstCarlos José Solórzano, sometimes known asEl Lomazo. This coup led to theConstitutionalist War.^[173]
4. June 6, 1936:Anastasio Somoza Garcia orchestrated a first coup, in which he ousted his uncle, PresidentJuan Bautista Sacasa.^[173]
5. May 26, 1947:Anastasio Somoza García orchestrated a second coup, in which he overthrewLeonardo Argüello Barreto.^[173]

1. April 15, 1974:Seyni Kountché overthrewHamani Diori.
2. January 27, 1996:Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara overthrewMahamane Ousmane.
3. April 9, 1999:Daouda Malam Wanké overthrewIbrahim Baré Maïnassara.
4. February 18, 2010:Salou Djibo overthrewMamadou Tandja.
5. July 12–13, 2011: coup attempt against Mahamadou Issoufou.
6. March 31, 2021: An attempt by Captain Sani Saley Gourouza to overthrowMahamadou Issoufou failed.
7. July 26, 2023:Mohamed Bazoum is detained and a military junta installed.

1. January 15–16, 1966:Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu overthrewAbubakar Tafawa Balewa.
2. July 29, 1966:Yakubu Gowon overthrewJohnson Aguiyi-Ironsi.
3. July 29, 1975:Murtala Mohammed overthrewYakubu Gowon.
4. February 13, 1976:Buka Suka Dimka led a failed coup that resulted in the death of the head of stateMurtala Mohammed.
5. December 31, 1983:Muhammadu Buhari overthrewShehu Shagari.
6. August 27, 1985:Ibrahim Babangida overthrewMuhammadu Buhari.
7. April 22, 1990:Gideon Orkar failed to topple presidentIbrahim Babangida.
8. November 17, 1993:Sani Abacha overthrewErnest Shonekan.
9. April 13, 2024: Yoruba separatists attempt a coup in the Oyo State.

1. 1537: KingChristian III overthrew RegentOlav Engelbrektsson and theRigsraad, leading to theNorwegian Reformation, and forcibly implemented ahereditary monarchy.
2. April 9, 1940:Vidkun Quisling announced afascist government by radio broadcast in an attempt to overthrow the legally electedLabour government ofJohan Nygaardsvold whileNazi Germany invaded the country. His coup was rejected as illegitimate byKing Haakon VII and Quisling would hold little power during theNazi occupation.

1. July 23, 1970:Qaboos bin Said overthrew his fatherSaid bin Taimur during theDhofar Rebellion.

1. January 2, 1931 [es]: Members ofAcción Comunal launched a successful coup againstFlorencio Harmodio Arosemena.^[174]
2. October 9, 1941: A successful coup removedArnulfo Arias from presidency and replaced him withRicardo de la Guardia.^[174]
3. November 20, 1949: Police ChiefJosé Antonio Remón pressured the resignation of PresidentDaniel Chanis Pinzón.
4. May 9, 1951: A popular uprising, supported by theNational Guard, overthrewArnulfo Arias.^[174]
5. April 1959: With the help of Cuban mercenaries, diplomatRoberto Arias and ballerinaMargot Fonteyn plotted to spark a coup or revolution against PresidentErnesto de la Guardia.^[175]
6. October 11, 1968:Boris Martínez andOmar Torrijos lead a military coup that oustsArnulfo Arias.^[174]
7. December 16, 1969: A group of military officers, loyal toOmar Torrijos, foiled a coup attempt.^[176]
8. March 16, 1988: A first coup attempt againstManuel Noriega was led by Leonidas Macias.^[177]
9. October 3, 1989: A second coup attempt againstManuel Noriega was led byMoisés Giroldi.^[177]
10. December 5, 1990: A coup attempt againstGuillermo Endara was led by Eduardo Herrera Hassan.^[178]

1. March 9, 1951: Major GeneralAkbar Khan led a coup against theMuslim League government ofPrime MinisterLiaquat Ali Khan in protest of the government's acceptance of a ceasefire in theFirst Indo-Pakistani War. This was the first attempted military coup in Pakistan's history.
2. 1953: A constitutional coup was launched byMalik Ghulam Muhammad.
3. October 27, 1958: Field MarshalAyub Khan overthrewIskander Mirza in response to his suspension of thePakistani Constitution and declaration of martial law.
4. March 25, 1969: A coup was by GeneralYahya Khan.Ayub Khan resigned.
5. 1973: A coup to overthrowZulfikar Ali Bhutto failed.
6. July 4, 1977: GeneralMuhammad Zia-ul-Haq and thePakistan National Alliance overthrewZulfikar Ali Bhutto after acontested general election.
7. March 1980: The first coup attempt to overthrowMuhammad Zia-ul-Haq failed.
8. 1984: The second coup attempt to overthrowMuhammad Zia-ul-Haq failed.
9. 1995: A group ofPakistani Armed Forces officers, led byZahirul Islam Abbasi, plotted to overthrow thePakistan People's Party government ofBenazir Bhutto.
10. October 12, 1999: GeneralPervez Musharraf overthrew thePML-N governmentPrime MinisterNawaz Sharif andsuspended the writ of the Constitution due to Sharif's intent to relieve him asChairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

1. March 16, 1990: Coup attempt by police commissioner Paul Tohian against Prime MinisterRabbie Namaliu was caused by the situation inBougainville and Tohian being drunk.^[179]
2. January 26, 2012: A coup attempt was led by retired colonelYaura Sasa against disputed Prime MinisterPeter O'Neill. This coup occurred amid thePapuan constitutional crisis.

1. September 4, 1880:Bernardino Caballero was appointed as interim president byCongress after the death of thePresidentCándido Bareiro and the forced resignation by a coup ofVice presidentAdolfo Saguier.
2. June 9, 1894:Juan Bautista Egusquiza overthrewJuan Gualberto González. Congress appointedMarcos Morínigo as interim president.
3. January 9, 1902:Bernardino Caballero overthrewEmilio Aceval. Congress appointedAndrés Héctor Carvallo as interim president.
4. December 19, 1904:Juan Antonio Escurra was deposed. Congress appointedJuan Bautista Gaona as interim president.
5. December 9, 1905:Juan Bautista Gaona was deposed. Congress appointedCecilio Báez as interim president.
6. July 4, 1908:Benigno Ferreira was deposed.
7. January 17, 1911:Albino Jara overthrewManuel Gondra.
8. January 14, 1912:Marcos Caballero Codas,Mario Uscher, andAlfredo Aponte overthrewLiberato Marcial Rojas.
9. February 28, 1912:Liberato Marcial Rojas was deposed. Congress appointedPedro Pablo Peña as interim president Congress.
10. March 22, 1912:Pedro Pablo Peña was deposed. Congress appointedEmiliano González Navero as interim president.
11. February 17, 1936:Rafael Franco overthrewEusebio Ayala.
12. August 13, 1937:Félix Paiva overthrewRafael Franco.
13. February 18, 1940:José Félix Estigarribia conducts aself-coup.
14. June 3, 1948:Higinio Morínigo was deposed. Congress appointedJuan Manuel Frutos as interim president.
15. October 25, 1948:Alfredo Stroessner attempted to deposeJuan Natalicio González.^[180]
16. January 30, 1949:Juan Natalicio González was deposed. Congress appointedRaimundo Rolón appointed as interim president.
17. February 26, 1949:Felipe Molas López overthrewRaimundo Rolón.
18. September 11, 1949:Felipe Molas López was deposed. Congress appointedFederico Chaves as interim president.
19. May 4, 1954:Alfredo Stroessner overthrewFederico Chaves. Congress appointedTomás Romero Pereira as interim president.
20. February 3, 1989:Andrés Rodríguez and theParaguayan Army overthrewAlfredo Stroessner.
21. April 22–25, 1996: GeneralLino Oviedo attempted to deposeJuan Carlos Wasmoy.
22. May 18–19, 2000: An attempted coup againstLuis Ángel González Macchi failed.

1. 1823:José de la Riva-Agüero led a coup against theSupreme Governing Junta of Peru.
2. 1829:Agustín Gamarra led a coup againstJosé de La Mar.
3. 1835:Felipe Santiago Salaverry led a coup againstLuis José de Orbegoso.
4. 1842:Juan Crisóstomo Torrico led a coup againstManuel Menéndez.
5. 1865:Mariano Ignacio Prado led a coup againstPedro Diez Canseco.
6. 1872:Tomás Gutiérrez led a coup againstJosé Balta.
7. 1879:Nicolás de Piérola led a coup against Mariano Ignacio Prado.
8. 1909:Carlos de Piérola [es] led a coup againstAugusto B. Leguía.
9. 1914:Óscar Benavides led a coup againstGuillermo Billinghurst.
10. 1919:Augusto B. Leguía y Salcedo led a coup againstJosé 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 againstJosé Luis Bustamante y Rivero.
13. 1962:Ricardo Pérez Godoy led a coup againstManuel Prado Ugarteche.
14. 1968:Juan Velasco Alvarado led a coup againstFernando Belaúnde Terry.
15. 1975:Francisco Morales-Bermúdez led a coup against Juan Velasco Alvarado.
16. April 1992:Alberto Fujimori conducts aself-coup.
17. November 1992:Jaime Salinas Sedó [es] led a coup against Alberto Fujimori.
18. 2000:Ollanta Humala led a coup against Alberto Fujimori.
19. 2005: A coup attempt led byAntauro Humala againstAlejandro Toledo fails.
20. 2022:Pedro Castillo attempts aself-coup.

From the 1565Spanish conquest until 1898, there were more than 20 failedPhilippine revolts against Spain, including the Chinese revolts (1603, 1662),Dagohoy rebellion (1744–1825),Silang rebellion (1762–1763), andPule revolt (1840–1841), all crushed by theSpanish 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 inManila. The following list includes plots that did aim to overthrow the national government.

1. 1587–1588: The failed Tondo Conspiracy was crushed by theSpanish colonial government.
2. October 11, 1719: Successful overthrow and assassination of Governor-GeneralFernando Manuel de Bustillo Bustamante y Rueda by supporters ofManila ArchbishopFrancisco de la Cuesta.
3. June 1, 1823: A failed revolt byAndrés 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.

1. May 2, 1935: The failedSakdalista Rebellion againstUnited States was crushed by the American colonial government.

1. 1942–1954: The failedHukbalahap Rebellion againstJapan and, later, the government of the Philippines, ended with the surrender of the Huks.

1. May 21, 1967: A failed overthrow byLapiang Malaya of the Third Philippine Republic was led byPresidentFerdinand 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 Marcosdeclares martial law in aself-coup.
4. February 22–25, 1986: ThePeople Power Revolution, a civilian-backed military coup led byJuan Ponce Enrile andFidel V. Ramos overthrew Marcos as president.

1. July 6–8, 1986: A failed coup attempt, by former senator and vice presidential candidateArturo Tolentino together with 490 armed soldiers and 15,000 civilians loyal to former presidentFerdinand Marcos, was crushed by thePhilippine government.
2. November 11, 1986: A failed coup attempt, led byJuan 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 ColonelGregorio Honasan, was crushed by thePhilippine government.
7. December 1–9, 1989: A failed coup attempt, led by ColonelGregorio 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 suspendedCagayan 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 inMindanao, and were defeated by the government.
10. January 17–20, 2001: A four-day political protest, held in EDSA, peacefully overthrew the government ofPresidentJoseph Estrada^[181]
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 theMakati Central Business District.
13. February 24, 2006: A state of emergency was declared to forestallalleged coup against the government
14. November 29, 2007: Mutinous soldiers occupiedthe Peninsula Manila Hotel, but later surrendered to the government.

Alleged plots that have not been attempted yet:

1. 2018–2021:Allegations of ouster plot againstPresidentRodrigo Duterte were first publicized by the military. The allegations mainly implicated the opposition figures and the critics of theDuterte 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 thePhilippine Islands.
3. 1969–2019: The Tripoli Agreement with theMoro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in 1976, Final Peace Agreement with the MNLF in 1996, peace deal with theMoro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in 2014, and established theBangsamoro in 2019.
4. 1969–present: The ongoing communist rebellion in the Philippines is primarily led by theNew People's Army (NPA). NPA breakaway groups have had peace deals with the Philippine government: with theCordillera People's Liberation Army in 1986, and with theRevolutionary Proletarian Army in 2000.

Attempts to wrest control of a chamber ofCongress are plots, notcoups, 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 thepresidential system of government withseparation 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.

1. 1919: National Democratic attempt was led byMarian Januszajtis-Żegota andPrince Eustachy Sapieha to overthrowJędrzej Moraczewski andJózef Piłsudski's left-wing government.
2. May 1926: Józef Piłsudski overthrew theChjeno-Piast government ofPresidentStanisław Wojciechowski andPrime MinisterWincenty Witos, appointingKazimierz Bartel as the new prime minister and beginning theSanation regime.
3. December 13, 1981: GeneralWojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law and banned theSolidarity union, forming theMilitary Council of National Salvation.

1. 1820: This Portuguese political revolution began with a military insurrection in the city ofPorto 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 fromBrazil, where ithad fled during thePeninsular War, and initiated aconstitutional period in which the1822 Constitution was ratified and implemented.
2. April 1824: Thisabsolutist political revolt that took place in theUnited Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves.
3. November 1836: QueenMaria II of Portugal and her husbandFerdinand II attempted a coup to remove the liberal government established by theSeptember Revolution and reinstate theConstitutional Charter of 1826.
4. 1837: This was an unsuccessfulChartist military coup in Portugal against theSetembrist government ofAntónio Dias de Oliveira led by marshalsSaldanha andTerceira.
5. 1842: Coup ofCosta Cabral.
6. October 6, 1846: Apalace coup by which queenMaria II deposed the government presided over byPedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela, that had been installed on May 20 that year as a result of theRevolution of Maria da Fonte.
7. 1846–1847: The Patuleia occurred after theRevolution 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 clearlyCartista government presided over by marshalJoão Oliveira e Daun, Duque de Saldanha.
8. 1851: Revolt ofJoão Carlos de Saldanha (beginning ofRegeneração).
9. July 22, 1872: A coup byCaetano Gaspar de Almeida e Noronha [pt] againstFontes Pereira de Melo failed.
10. January 31, 1891: republican uprising in response to the1890 British Ultimatum.
11. January 28, 1908: attempted coup by republicans.
12. October 5, 1910: A republican coup d'état deposed KingManuel II of Portugal and established thePortuguese First Republic.
13. May 14, 1915: An uprising overthrewPimenta de Castro's government.
14. December 1917: A coup d'état led toSidónio Pais' dictatorship.
15. October 1921: A coup ledAntónio Granjo's government to resign, but PresidentAntónio José de Almeida resisted appointing the rebels' government.
16. April 18, 1925: The military failed to carry out a coup.
17. July 19, 1925: A Revolt againstMendes Cabecadas failed.
18. May 28, 1926: GeneralManuel Gomes da Costa and thePortuguese Armed Forces overthrew theFirst Portuguese Republic, establishing theDitadura Nacional.
19. February 3, 1927: A failed coup attempt was led by Mendes dos Reis, Agatão Lança, Câmara Lente, and Filipe Mendes.
20. Jul 20, 1928: A failed coup attempt was led byLiga de Paris andMajor Sarmento Beires.
21. August 26, 1931: A failed coup attempt was led by Hélder Ribeiro, Utra Machado, Jaime Batista, Dias Antunes, and Sarmento Beires.
22. April 8, 1961: Failed coup attempt led by Minister of DefenseJúlio Botelho Moniz.
23. March 16, 1974: Failed coup attempt involving CaptainOtelo Saraiva de Carvalho, who would later go on to lead the Carnation Revolution
24. April 25, 1974: TheMovimento das Forças Armadas (Armed Forces Movement) overthrew theEstado Novo dictatorship de facto led bySalazar's successorMarcelo Caetano, establishing theNational Salvation Junta and founding theCarnation Revolution.
25. March 11, 1975: A coup attempt by right-wing military units fostered by former presidentAntónio de Spínola failed, leading contrariwise to a leftward turn of the Carnation Revolution (PREC - Processo Revolucionário em Curso, Ongoing Revolutionary Process) and theHot Summer of '75.Elections to the Constituent Assembly would take place the following month.
26. November 25, 1975: A coup attempt led by far-left military units failed, putting an end to PREC. Thecurrent Portuguese Constitution would be approved and come into force five months later.
27. June 17, 2025: 6neo-nazis belonging to the Lusitanian Armillary Movement were arrested after planning an attack on theAssembly of the Republic ofPortugal on June 17.^[182]

1. February 22, 1972: Heir-apparentKhalifa bin Hamad Al Thani deposedEmirAhmad bin Ali Al Thani.
2. June 27, 1995: Heir-apparentHamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposed EmirKhalifa bin Hamad Al Thani.
3. February 14, 1996:Hamad bin Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani attempted and failed to depose EmirHamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.

1. 1866: The "monstrous coalition" of Liberals and Conservatives conducted a coup against PrinceAlexandru Ioan Cuza.
2. 1938:KingCarol II of Romania led a coup againstCorneliu Zelea Codreanu and theIron Guard.
3. 1940:Horia Sima andIon Antonescu overthrewCarol II of Romania and created theNational Legionary State.
4. 1941: TheIron Guard unsuccessfully revolted againstIon Antonescu, leading to the suppression of theIron Guard and a major pogrom inBucharest.
5. 1944:KingMichael I of Romania andConstantin Sănătescu removedIon Antonescu's government from power due to theSoviet invasion of Romania.
6. 1947:Prime MinisterPetru Groza forcedKingMichael I to abdicate, forming theSocialist Republic of Romania.
7. 1984: Coup attempt againstNicolae Ceausescu was led by thearmy.^[183]
8. 1989:Ion Iliescu and hisNational Salvation Front overthrewNicolae Ceasescu alongside civil unrest and a series of uprisings, ending theRomanian Communist Party's rule;
9. 1999: miners fromValea Jiului, led byMiron Cozma and supported byCorneliu Vadim Tudor'sGreater Romania Party, unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow theCDR-led government.
10. December 2024: far-right presidential candidateCalin Georgescu attempted to stage a coup after the first round of the presidential election, which he won (allegedly following Russian interference), was annulled.Horatiu Potra, a former militia chief in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and 20 other people were also charged as co-conspirators.^[184]

1. 1741:Elizabeth Petrovna overthrew her infant cousinIvan VI of Russia and his motherAnna Leopoldovna.
2. 1762: A coup byCatherine the Great forced the abdication ofPeter III of Russia.
3. December 1825: The Decembrist revolt attempted to deposeTsar 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 ministerPyotr Stolypin, with the dissolution of theSecond Duma.
5. March 15, 1917:Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was forced to abdicate in favour of theRussian Provisional Government, ending theRomanov dynasty.

1. September 1917:Lavr Kornilov attempted to march intoPetrograd, overthrow the Provisional Government, dissolve thePetrograd Soviet and possibly establish a military dictatorship after being appointed Commander-in-Chief of theRussian Army byAlexander 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 theRussian Republic.
2. November 7, 1917: TheBolshevik faction of theRussian Social Democratic Labor Party, led byVladimir Lenin, overthrew theRussian Provisional Government and forms theRussian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, leading to theRussian Civil War and the formation of theSoviet Union.
3. 1918: An attempt bySidney Reilly et al. to remove the Bolsheviks from power failed.
4. August 2, 1918: CaptainGeorgi Chaplin deposed the Bolshevik government ofArkhangelsk, establishing theSupreme Administration of the Northern Region, led byNikolai Tchaikovsky.^[185]
5. September 6, 1918: CaptainGeorgi Chaplin attempted a second coup in Arkhangelsk, dispatching thePopular Socialists' Cabinet to theSolovetsky Islands, but his coup fails because of a lack of support and mass resistance.^[185]
6. November 18, 1918: AdmiralAlexander Kolchak deposed theOmsk Directory, then headed byNikolai Avksentiev, and proclaimed himselfSupreme Ruler of Russia.
7. May 26, 1921: White army coup established theProvisional Priamurye Government.

1. June 1957: The "Anti-Party Group" unsuccessfully attempted to removeNikita Khrushchev from power.
2. October 13, 1964:Nikita Khrushchev was forced to resign, handing power toLeonid Brezhnev.
3. August 19–21, 1991: A group ofSoviet Communist Party hardliners formed theState Committee on the State of Emergency attempted to overthrowPresidentMikhail Gorbachev to reverse his reforms. The coup was suppressed byRSFSRPresidentBoris Yeltsin, weakening theCommunist Party's authority and accelerating thedissolution of the Soviet Union.

1. September 21 to October 4, 1993: RussianPresident Boris Yeltsin, aided by theRussian Armed Forces, extralegally dissolved theSupreme Soviet and suspended theconstitution in response toimpeachment proceedings against him.
2. 2023:Wagner Group rebellion^[186]

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

1. March 8, 1988: Afonso dos Santos failed to overthrowManuel Pinto da Costa.
2. August 15, 1995:Manuel Quintas de Almeida overthrewMiguel Trovoada for six days.
3. July 16, 2003:Fernando Pereira (major) overthrewFradique de Menezes for seven days.
4. November 24–25, 2022: A few men, includingDelfim Neves, president of the outgoingNational Assembly, allegedly tried to overthrow thegovernment.

1. November 1964: At the request of Crown PrinceFaisal (Ibn Saud's third son), his brotherMuhammad bin Abdulaziz (Ibn Saud's fourth son) led a palace coup that ousted KingSaud (Ibn Saud's second son), making Faisal king.^[187]
2. 1969: Members of theRoyal Saudi Air Force, inspired by theFree Officers Movement in Libya, attempted to overthrowKing Faisal.
3. June 21, 2017: PrinceMohammed bin Salman ousted and succeeded Saudi Crown Prince and de facto leaderMuhammad bin Nayef in what was described as a "palace coup".^[188]
4. March 7, 2020: theSaudi Arabian government arrested PrincesAhmed bin Abdulaziz,Muhammad bin Nayef,Nayef bin Ahmed,Nawwaf bin Nayef andMuhammad bin Saad for allegedly planning a coup attempt.^[189]

1. 1933: A failed coup was led byAntonio Canepa against the fascist regime ofGiuliano Gozi.^[190]
2. 1957: A quasi-coup led to the coexistence of two governments for a month.

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

1. 1842:Mihailo Obrenović 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 III, restoring the Obrenovic dynasty.
3. May 28–29, 1903: This coup resulted in the assassination ofKing Alexander I and hisconsort,Queen Draga, resulting in the extinction of theObrenović dynasty that had ruled Serbia since the middle of the 19th century. A group ofRoyal Serbian Army officers led by CaptainDragutin Dimitrijević (Apis) organized the assassination. After the May Coup, the throne passed toKing Peter I of theKarađorđević dynasty.

1. June 5, 1977:France-Albert René overthrewJames Mancham.
2. November 25, 1981: South African mercenaries attempted to replaceFrance-Albert René with former presidentJames 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 theIndian Navy to help avert a threatened coup against the government of PresidentFrance-Albert René.

1. March 21, 1967:David Lansana overthrewSiaka Stevens.
2. March 23, 1967:David Lansana was deposed by theNational Reformation Council.
3. April 19, 1968:John Amadu Bangura overthrewAndrew Juxon-Smith.
4. April 29, 1992:Valentine Strasser overthrewJoseph Saidu Momoh.
5. January 16, 1996:Julius Maada Bio overthrewValentine Strasser.
6. May 25, 1997:Johnny Paul Koroma overthrewAhmed Tejan Kabbah.
7. July 31, 2023: Sierra Leone police arrested 19 people—including 14 serving personnel of theRepublic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces, 2 officers of theSierra Leone Police, and 1 retired chief superintendent of police—who were allegedly planning a coup between August 7 and 10.^{[191][192][193][194]} In addition, five military officers and three police officers were subject to a search and capture warrant.^[192]
8. November 26, 2023: An attempted coup involving attacks on barracks and a prison resulted in the death of 19 people. The incident resulted in the arrest of 13 officers and 1 civilian.^[195]

1. 2025 Slovakia coup d'état plot allegations^[196][197]

1. December 6, 1860:Stephanus Schoeman overthrewJohannes Hermanus Grobler.^[198]

1. September 24, 1828:Dingane, alongsideMhlangana, deposedShaka Zulu via assassination and took the throne.^[199]
2. 1840:Mpande, with the support of Boer forces, deposedDingane and took the throne.^[200]

1. December 30, 1987:Bantu Holomisa overthrewStella Sigcau.
2. November 22, 1990: A bloody attempted coup led by Colonel Craig Duli was defeated by the loyalist forces of GeneralBantu Holomisa.^[201]

1. February 10, 1988: A short-lived coup that installedRocky Malebane-Metsing as president of Bophuthatswana was defeated by intervention by theSouth African Defence Force, which reinstated Lucas Mangope to the position.
2. March 11, 1994:Lucas Mangope was overthrown by mutinyingBophuthatswana Defence Force forces supported by theSouth African Defence Force.Bophuthatswana, abantustan established duringapartheid, was reincorporated into South Africa.

1. April 5, 1990:Gabriel Ramushwana overthrewFrank Ravele.^[202]

1. March 4, 1990:Oupa Gqozo and theCiskei Defense Force overthrowLennox Sebe.^[203]

1. 2002: A failed plot led by white supremacists linked toBoeremag to overthrow theAfrican National Congressgovernment. The conspiracy included an assassination attempt on former presidentNelson Mandela andbomb attacks.^[204]

1. June 5, 2000:Malaita Eagle Force overthrew Prime MinisterBartholomew Ulufa'alu.

1. December, 1961: An attempt by army officers to restore the independence of Somaliland failed.
2. October 21, 1969:Muhammad Siad Barre overthrewSheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein.
3. April 9, 1978: A coup attempt againstMuhammad Siad Barre failed.
4. January 26, 1991:Mohammed Farrah Aidid and theUnited Somali Congress overthrewMuhammad Siad Barre, beginning theSomali Civil War.

1. 603: GeneralWiterico overthrew kingLiuva II.
2. 631: DukeSisenando overthrew KingSuintila.
3. 642:Tulga was overthrown byChindasvinto.
4. 692:Égica was briefly overthrown bySuniefredo.

1. 1814: Absolutistpronunciamiento took place againstFernando VII andFrancisco Javier de Elío.
2. 1815: A failedliberalpronunciamiento was led by Juan Díaz Porlier atA Coruña.
3. 1820: A successfulliberalpronunciamiento was led byRafael del Riego, leading to the start of theTrienio Liberal.
4. 1822: An absolutist coup by the Royal Guard ofFernando VII failed.
5. 1831: Aliberalpronunciamiento led by Manuel de Torrijos failed.
6. 1835: Aliberalpronunciamiento was led by Cordero y de Quesada.
7. 1836: A successfulliberal mutiny was led by La Granja de San Ildefonso.
8. 1841: There was a failedModeratepronunciamiento .
9. 1843: A successfulModeratepronunciamiento led by Narváez andFrancisco Serrano y Domínguez ended of theBaldomero Espartero regency.
10. 1844: A failedliberal andEsparterist coup was led byMartín Zurbano.
11. 1846: A failedprogressive liberalmilitary and civic revolt inGalicia was led by Miguel Solís Cuetos.
12. 1848: A failedprogressive liberalmilitary and civic revolt inMadrid was led by colonel Manuel Buceta.
13. 1854: A successfulrevolutionary coup in Madrid was led by generalLeopoldo O'Donnell.
14. 1860: A failedCarlist military uprising atSant Carles de la Ràpita was led by general Jaime Ortega y Olleta.
15. 1866: A failedProgressive andDemocrat coup took place inMadrid.
16. 1866: A failedpronunciamiento againstVillarejo de Salvanés was led by generalJuan Prim.
17. 1868: successfulGlorious Revolution was started by thepronunciamiento ofJuan Bautista Topete inCádiz.

1. 1874: A successful coup was led by General Pavía.
2. 1874: A successfulPronunciamiento deSagunto ended theSpanish First Republic and restored monarchy and theBorbón family to the throne.

1. August 5, 1883: Arepublicanpronunciamiento inBadajoz failed.
2. 1886: Arepublican coup failed inMadrid. It was led by Manuel Villacampa del Castillo andManuel Ruiz Zorrilla.
3. 1923:Spanish Army regiments led byMiguel Primo de Rivera overthrew Prime MinisterManuel García Prieto and established adictatorship with the support ofKing Alfonso XIII.
4. 1926: TheSanjuanada, a coup against the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera, failed.
5. 1929: A failed coup against the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera was led byJosé Sánchez-Guerra y Martínez.
6. 1930:Fermín Galán led the failed Jaca uprising, arepublicanpronunciamiento against theSpanish monarchy inJaca.

1. August 10, 1932:José Sanjurjo unsuccessfully tried to overthrow Prime MinisterManuel Azaña'sRepublican Left government, although the coup plotters disagreed over whether to next dissolve theSecond Spanish Republic.
2. 1936: planned coup by Carlists. the operation was cancelled.
3. July 1936: A military uprising led byEmilio Mola in whichFrancisco Franco participated, against Prime MinisterManuel Azaña and the Second Spanish Republic, started theSpanish Civil War.
4. November 1936: coup planned by Catalan nationalist partyEstat Català to overthrow autonomous Catalan government and declare independence of Catalonia. It was prevented by a pre-emptive strike ofGeneralitat
5. 1939:Segismundo Casado andJulián Besteiro overthrew thePSOE government ofJuan Negrín inRepublican-controlled Spain to negotiate a ceasefire with theNationalists, forming theNational Defense Council.

1. November 17, 1978: An abortedGuardia Civil coup was led byAntonio Tejero to stop theSpanish transition to democracy.
2. February 23, 1981: A faction of theSpanish Armed Forces led by Tejero broke into theCongress of Deputies while they were preparing to electLeopoldo Calvo-Sotelo as the newprime 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 overthrowLeopoldo 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.^{[citation needed]}

1. 1962: Christian military officers attempted to topple the government underSirimavo Bandaranaike.
2. 1966: Alleged attempt by the military to overthrow the government underSirimavo Bandaranaike.
3. 1971: Attempted overthrow of the government underSirimavo Bandaranaike by theMarxist–LeninistJVP, devolved into a two-month insurrection.

1. June 1957: Abdel Rahman Ismail Kabeida failed to overthrow the Sudanese Government.
2. November 16, 1958:Ibrahim Abboud overthrewAbdallah Khalil.
3. November 9, 1959 TheSudanese Armed Forces failed to overthrowIbrahim Abboud.
4. 1964: The October Revolution in Sudan, driven by a general strike and rioting, forced PresidentIbrahim Abboud to transfer executive power to a transitional civilian government, and eventually to resign.
5. May 25, 1969:Gaafar Nimeiry overthrewIsmail al-Azhari.
6. July 19–22, 1971:Communist members of theNational Revolutionary Command Council led byHashem al Atta attempted to overthrow Nimeiry but failed due to a lack of support.
7. September 5, 1975: The members of theSudanese Communist Party failed to overthrowGaafar Nimeiry.
8. July 2, 1976: Rebels failed to overthrowGaafar Nimeiry .
9. February 2, 1977: Failed coup attempt inJuba was led by former members of theAnyanya in theSudanese Air Force.
10. April 6, 1985:Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab overthrew Gaafar al-Nimeiry, establishing theTransitional Military Council.
11. June 30, 1989:Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir and theNational Islamic Front overthrew PresidentAhmed al-Mirghani and Prime MinisterSadiq al-Mahdi, creating theRevolutionary Command Council for National Salvation.
12. April 23, 1990: The first coup to overthrowOmar al-Bashir failed.
13. March 1992: The second coup to overthrowOmar al-Bashir failed.
14. March 2004: The third coup to overthrowOmar al-Bashir failed.
15. May 10, 2008: The fourth coup to overthrowOmar al-Bashir failed.
16. November 22, 2012: The fifth coup to overthrowOmar al-Bashir failed.
17. April 10, 2019: TheSudanese Armed Forces led byAhmed Awad Ibn Auf overthrowOmar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir during theSudanese Revolution.
18. September 21, 2021: An attempted coup against the rulingSovereignty Council by forces loyal toOmar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir fails.
19. October 25, 2021: TheSudanese military, led byAbdel Fattah al-Burhan, seized control of the government following the arrest of Prime MinisterAbdalla Hamdok and other civilian members of theSovereignty Council.
20. April 15, 2023–ongoing: coup attempt led by theRapid Support Forces (RSF), which escalated into civil war.

1. May 25–26, 1910: A failed coup d'état was led by police officerFrans Killinger.^[205]
2. November 7–8, 1947: A failed coup d'état was led bySimon Sanches.^[206]
3. February 25, 1980: A military coup led byDési Bouterse ousted Prime MinisterHenck Arron.^[207]
4. August 13, 1980: The military, led byDési Bouterse, ousted PresidentJohan Ferrier.^[208]
5. March 15, 1981: A counter-coup/conspiracy led byWilfred Hawker failed.^[209][210]
6. March 10–11, 1982: A counter-coup led bySurendre Rambocus failed.^[207]
7. December 24, 1990: PresidentRamsewak Shankar was dismissed by Suriname's military.^{[citation needed]}

1. 1717:Wilchingen rebelled against the City ofSchaffhausen.^{[citation needed]}
2. 1719:Werdenberg rebelled againstGlarus.^{[citation needed]}
3. 1723: The military was led by MajorAbraham Davel (Vaud) in rebellion againstBern.^{[citation needed]}
4. 1726: Peasants ofJura rebelled against the Bistum ofBasel.^{[citation needed]}
5. 1755:Leventina (Ticino) rebelled againstCanton Uri.^{[citation needed]}
6. 1781: Chenaux (Fribourg) rebelled againstCanton Fribourg.^{[citation needed]}
7. 1797: Peasants of Baselgebiet rebelled against the City ofBasel and oustedPeter Ochs and Peter Vischer.^{[citation needed]}
8. January 8, 1800: Republicans (Hans Konrad Escher,Paul Usteri, Albrecht Rengger, and Bernhard Friedrich Kuhn) ousted the Patriots (Karl Albrecht von Frisching, Karl von Müller-Friedberg, and Carl Heinrich Gschwend).
9. August 7, 1800: Patriots ousted the Republicans.
10. October 27–28, 1801: Federalist (Alois Reding and Johann Rudolf von Frisching), with help from the French Raymond Verninac, ousted the Unitarier and Patriots.
11. April 17, 1802: Unitarier, led by Bernhard Friedrich Kuhns, ousted the FederalistAlois Reding.
12. September 6, 1839: A radical movement led by Conrad Melchior Hirzel andFridrich Ludwig Keller ousted the Liberals and killedJohannes Hegtschweiler.

1. May 18, 1160: KingEric the Holy was killed on orders ofMagnus Henriksson, who took power as king of Sweden.
2. April 12, 1167: KingCharles Sverkersson was killed by men loyal toCanute Ericsson, who was declared king and consolidated his power in 1173.
3. June 14, 1275: KingValdemar Birgersson lost theBattle of Hova against his brother,Magnus Birgersson, who subsequently took power and was elected king in July.
4. 1439: KingEric of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway (Kalmar Union) was deposed from the Danish and Swedish thrones, and from the Norwegian throne in 1440.
5. June 1448:Charles Canutesson was elected and hailed as king of Sweden under the pressure of his own private army.
6. 1457: Charles Canutesson was ousted following a rebellion by the archbishop and the high nobility.
7. 1520: In theBattle of Bogesund andStockholm Bloodbath,Christian II of Denmark deposedSten Sture the Younger and became king of Sweden.
8. 1521–1523: Christian II, is deposed in the Vasa rebellion, effectively finally ending theKalmar Union and makingGustaf Vasa king Gustaf I of Sweden.
9. 1568–1569: a rebellion among the nobility deposed kingEric XIV of Sweden and inserted his brother,John III of Sweden, as king.
10. 1569: The plot againstJohn III of Sweden, seeking to reinstateEric XIV of Sweden failed.
11. 1574: The plot against John III, seeking to reinstate Eric XIV, failed.
12. 1576: The 1576 plot against John III, seeking to reinstate Eric XIV, failed.
13. 1598–1600: In the War against Sigismund and theLinköping Bloodbath in 1600,Sigismund of Sweden was deposed and succeeded by his uncle Duke Charles who was some years later crowned asCharles IX of Sweden.
14. 1756:Queen Louisa Ulrika's coup against theRiksdag of the Estates failed.
15. 1772: KingGustaf III of Sweden dismissed theRiksdag of the Estates, ending theAge of Liberty.
16. 1789: The 1789 Conspiracy ofCharlotte of Holstein-Gottorp against her brother-in-law Gustaf III failed.
17. 1793: TheArmfelt Conspiracy byGustaf Mauritz Armfelt, in companionship withMagdalena Rudenschöld, with the intent to depose the guardian government of kingGustav IV Adolf of Sweden, was exposed.
18. 1809: A number of noblemen in theSwedish Army overthrew kingGustav IV Adolf of Sweden after theFinnish War.
19. 1917–1918: Riots in Stockholm were followed by Socialist threats of revolution, but the plans were never realized. However, kingGustaf V finally accepted parliamentarism and appointedNils Edén as prime minister for aLiberal-Social Democrat coalition government to ease political tension^[211]

1. March 29, 1949:Husni al-Za'im led a coup againstShukri al-Quwatli.
2. August 14, 1949:Sami al-Hinnawi led a coup againstHusni al-Za'im.
3. December 19, 1949:Adib Shishakli oust thede facto leader of SyriaSami al-Hinnawi.
4. November 29, 1951:Adib Shishakli overthrew the cabinet ofMaarouf al-Dawalibi. PresidentHashim al-Atassi later resigned in protest, paving the way for Shishakli's military rule.
5. February 25, 1954:Maamun al-Kuzbari led a coup againstAdib Shishakli.
6. September 28, 1961:Haydar al-Kuzbari and others led a coup againstGamal Abdel Nasser.
7. March 28, 1962:Abd al-Karim al-Nahlawi and Abd al-Karim Zahr al-Din attempted and failed to overthrow the Syrian presidentNazim al-Qudsi.
8. March 8, 1963:Lu'ayy al-Atasi and theArab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region overthrew theSecond Syrian Republic underNazim al-Kudsi.
9. July 17–18, 1963: Nasserist officers attempted and failed to overthrow theSyrian Ba'athist regime.^[212]
10. February 21–23, 1966:Salah Jadid overthrewAmin al-Hafiz and theBa'ath National Command, leading to a split in theBa'ath Party.
11. September 8, 1966:Salim Hatum attempted and failed to overthrowSalah Jadid.^[212]
12. November 13, 1970:Hafez al-Assad overthrewSalah Jadid.
13. 1982: hundreds ofSyrian Air Force officers became involved in a coup attempt against PresidentHafez al-Assad, originally planned to take place in coordination with an armed uprising in the city of Hama.
14. March 30, 1984:Rifaat al-Assad orchestrated a coup with theDefense Brigades, but failed to oust his brother, PresidentHafez al-Assad.
15. 2025: coup plot by pro-Assad officers within the Syrian Army

1. January 21, 1964: mutiny by General Chao Chih-hwa with the goal of marching onTaipei.

1. September 7, 1992:Rahmon Nabiyev was held at gunpoint atDushanbe Airport and forced to resign.Emomali Rahmon assuming internal power in November.^[213]
2. 2015: members of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan were arrested on charges of plotting a coup.^[214][215]

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.^[216]

According to Paul Chambers, a professor atChiang 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.^[217] Others claim there were 13 since 1932.^[218]

1. 1912: Coup planned by military officers was discovered and thwarted.
2. June 24, 1932: TheKhana Ratsadon party overthrew the absolute monarchy of KingPrajadhipok.^[219]
3. April 1, 1933:Phraya Manopakorn Nitithada dissolved a government of thePeople's Party and oustedPridi Banomyong, the leader of the party, from the country.
4. June 20, 1933:Phraya Phahon Phonphayuhasena overthrewPhraya Manopakorn Nititada.^[219]
5. October 11–23, 1933: A royalist rebellion overturned the results of the June 1933 coup d'état.
6. August 3, 1935: The Nai Sip rebellion took place.^[220]
7. January 29, 1939: More a purge or internal coup, this was the work of Prime MinisterPhibul to remove political enemies and rivals.^[220]
8. November 7, 1947:Phin Choonhavan overthrewThawal Thamrong Navaswadhi.^[219]
9. February 26–27, 1949: An attempted coup byPridi Banomyong, who saw the Grand Palace occupied by his supporters, failed.^[220]
10. June 29, 1951: Pridi supporters in the navy attempted a coup when they tried to seize Phibun.^[220]
11. November 29, 1951: The military overthrew the 1949 constitution and reverted to the 1932 constitution.^[219]
12. September 21, 1957:Sarit Thanarat overthrewPlaek Pibulsongkram.^[219]
13. October 20, 1958:Sarit Thanarat led aself-coup.^[219]
14. November 18, 1971:Thanom Kittikachorn led aself-coup.^[219]
15. February 1976: An attempted military coup was defeated in February.^[220]
16. October 6, 1976:Sangad Chaloryu overthrewSeni Pramoj.^[219]
17. 26 March 1977: attempt by members of the 9th Infantry Division to removeThanin Kraivichien.
18. October 20, 1977:Kriangsak Chamanan overthrewThanin Kraivichien.^[219]
19. April 1, 1981: A coup led by the army's deputy commander-in-chief 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.^[220]
20. September 9, 1985: A coup attempt by ColonelManoonkrit Roopkachorn, a member of the Young Turks, failed and a number of senior officers were later arrested.^[220]
21. February 23. 1991:Sunthorn Kongsompong overthrewChatichai Choonhavan.^[219]
22. September 19. 2006:Sonthi Boonyaratglin overthrewThaksin Shinawatra.^[219]
23. May 22, 2014:Prayut Chan-o-cha overthrewNiwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan.^[219]

1. January 13, 1963:Étienne Eyadéma andEmmanuel Bodjollé overthrewSylvanus Olympio.
2. January 13, 1967:Étienne Eyadéma andKléber Dadjo overthrewNicolas Grunitzky.
3. February 5–25, 2005: self coup byFaure Essozimna Gnassingbé, son of former presidentGnassingbé Eyadéma.

1. July 15, 1957:Habib Bourguiba overthrew KingMuhammad VIII al-Amin.
2. November 7, 1987:Zine El Abidine Ben Ali overthrewHabib Bourguiba.
3. Tunisian revolution:A series of streetdemonstrations which took place inTunisia, and led to the ousting of longtime dictatorZine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011.^[221][222]
4. July 25, 2021: PresidentKais Saied conducted aself-coup by dismissing his prime ministerHichem Mechichi and dissolving theAssembly of the Representatives of the People.

1. January 1929: The pro-Soviet, anti-Buddhist faction of theTuvan People's Revolutionary Party overthrew the government of theTuvan People's Republic in modernTuva.

1. 1807–1808: TheJanissaries, led byKabakçı Mustafa, overthrew SultanSelim III to halt hisNizam-I Cedid reforms after the1806 Edirne incident, disbanding hisnew military and replacing him withMustafa IV. However, rebels led byMustafa Bayrakdar overthrew the Janissary regime and placedMahmud 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 theSipahis force them back to their barracks and then permanently disbanded them.
3. May 30, 1876: Due to the public discontent caused by crop failures, public debt and excessive spending, the thirty-second Sultan of the Ottoman EmpireAbdulaziz was deposed by his ministers and found dead several days later, which was attributed to suicide. He was replaced byMurad V.^[223]
4. August 31, 1876: Murad V is deposed in favour of his half-brother Abdul Hamid II.
5. May 20, 1878: coup attempt to removeSultan Abdul Hamid II and restoreMurad V.
6. March 31, 1909: Islamist factions in theOttoman Army attempted to overthrow the newOttoman General Assembly and restore SultanAbdülhamit II to absolute rule, capturing control ofConstantinople for 11 days. This was suppressed byMahmud Shevket Pasha'sThird Army, forcing the Sultan to abdicate. He is succeeded by Mehmed V.
7. 1912: The "Saviour Officers" of the oppositionFreedom and Accord Party overthrew theCommittee of Union and Progress after the rigged1912 general election.
8. January 23, 1913: TheCommittee of Union and Progress overthrewGrand VizierKâmil Pasha after theFirst Balkan War, leading to the rule of the "Three Pashas" in theOttoman Empire.

1. May 27, 1960: A group of mid-rankingTurkish Armed Forces officers, later called theNational Unity Committee, overthrew theDemocrat Party government led by Prime MinisterAdnan Menderes.
2. February 22, 1962: A failed coup attempt was led by ColonelTalat Aydemir due to the discontent by the election results on July 9, 1961.
3. May 20, 1963: A second failed coup attempt was led by officers loyal to ColonelTalat Aydemir who was retired after the previous coup attempt. The plotters were motivated by the purges of army officers that took part in the 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: A military intervention took place.
5. March 9, 1971: A coup attempt by leftist army officers was thwarted.
6. March 12, 1971: Under four force commanders, theTurkish Armed Forces overthrewSüleyman Demirel.
7. December 27, 1979: The military memorandum was issued.
8. September 12, 1980:Chief of the General StaffKenan Evren overthrew the government led by Prime MinisterSüleyman Demirel in response towidespread political violence.
9. February 28, 1997: the General Staff issued a memorandum demanding the reversal of several policies of the Islamist government ofNecmettin 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: Amid a political deadlock concerningongoing presidential elections, theGeneral Staff issued a statement, later called theE-memorandum, about the presidential election understood to be a criticism of the rulingJustice and Development Party's candidate,Abdullah Gül. The crisis was resolved by anearly election held later that year, which resulted in Gul winning the presidency in a landslide.
11. July 15, 2016: A group within the Turkish military linked by the Turkish government to theGulen movement, thePeace at Home Council, made a failed military attempt to overthrow the government of PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdoğan.^[224]

1. July 27 to August 1, 1990: A failed coup attempt byIslamistJamaat al Muslimeen organization was led byYasin Abu Bakr against Prime MinisterA. N. R. Robinson.

1. February 1966:Milton Obote overthrew KingMutesa II of Buganda.
2. January 25, 1971:Idi Amin overthrewMilton Obote.
3. March 23–24, 1974: Brigadier Charles Arube attempted to overthrow Idi Amin
4. 18 June 1977: attempted coup by the Uganda Liberation Movement against Idi Amin.
5. May 12, 1980:Paulo Muwanga overthrewGodfrey Binaisa.
6. July 27, 1985:Tito Okello Lutwa overthrewMilton Obote.
7. January 26, 1986:Yoweri Museveni overthrewTito Okello Lutwa.^{[citation needed]}

1. July 23, 1687: Conspirators overthrew and arrested HetmanIvan Samoylovych, bringing to powerIvan Mazepa as the new Hetman.^[225]

1. April 29, 1918:Pavlo Skoropadskyi overthrew the socialist government of theCentral Council of Ukraine.^[225]
2. December 14, 1918:Directorate of Ukraine overthrewPavlo Skoropadskyi.^{[citation needed]}
3. April 29, 1919: A failed attempt byOtamanVolodymyr Oskilko to overthrowBorys Martos and theDirectorate of Ukraine took place.^[226]
4. December, 1919: A failed plot by Ukrainian Bolsheviks was led byYevgeny Polonsky to assassinateNestor Makhno and seize power in the region underMakhnovshchina control.

1. November 26, 2021: Allegations surface of aRussia-backed coup attempt.^[227]
2. February 2022: A failed coup was attempted in Ukraine to take control of variousUkrainian cities by pro-Russian rebels, install pro-Russian rule in them and transfer cities to theRussian army during2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[228][229]
3. July 1, 2024: Ukrainian authorities announced that a pro-Russian coup plot had been foiled.

1. August 22, 1922:Sultan bin Zayed Al Nahyan killed the Dhabyani rulerHamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan in a violent seizure of the throne.^[230]
2. August 4, 1926:Saqr bin Zayed Al Nahyan killed the Dhabyani rulerSultan bin Zayed Al Nahyan in a violent seizure of the throne.^[230]
3. January 1, 1928:Khalifa bin Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, with the support of aManasir faction, deposed and killed the Dhabyani rulerSaqr bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Choosing to installShakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan due to him having British support.^[231]
4. 1954–1955: A Saudi-backed coup plot againstShakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, led by Princes Zayed bin Saqr Al Nahyan and Dhabi Diab Al Nahyan, failed to materialize due to the resolution of theBuraimi dispute.^[231]
5. August 6, 1966: British forces staged a coup that deposedShakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan and installedZayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.^[232]
6. 2011: Forces loyal toKhalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of the UAE, foiled a coup plot led byHamdan bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.^[233]

1. July 8, 1900:Abdulaziz bin Humaid Al Nuaimi overthrew his nephewHumaid bin Rashid Al Nuaimi II.
2. June 20, 1910: Prince Muḥammad bin Rāshid attempted to overthrow his uncle Sheikh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz bin Ḥumaid. Succeeded in assassinating him, but townspeople expelled the plotters and the throne passed toḤumaid III.