LIST OF SUCCESSFUL COUPS D'éTAT

'Coups d'état' are listed by country in alphabetical order.

Contents

A-E

F-J

K-P

Q-V

W-Z

References

A-E

★ Afghanistan in 1973 by Mohammed Daoud Khan against Mohammad Zahir Shah, King of AfghanistanA nation challenged: Former monarch; security tightens before ex-king's arrival The New York Times

★ Afghanistan in 1978 by Nur Muhammad Taraki against Mohammed Daoud Khan Communism, rebellion, and Soviet intervention AfghanZone

★ Afghanistan in 1979 by Hafizullah Amin against Nur Muhammad Taraki

★ Afghanistan in 1979 by Babrak Karmal against Hafizullah Amin

★ Algeria in 1965 by Houari Boumedienne against Ahmed Ben BellaSurvivor of a coup TIME magazine

★ Algeria in 1992 by Khaled Nezzar against Chadli BendjedidPage 455 ''The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair''

★ Argentina on September 6, 1930 by José Félix Uriburu against Hipólito YrigoyenPage 168 ''National Military Establishments and the Advancement of Science and Technology: Studies in 20th Century...''

★ Argentina in 1943 by Arturo Rawson against Ramón Castillo Page 8 ''A Political Chronology of the Americas''

★ Argentina in 1955 by Eduardo Lonardi against Juan Perón Page 180 ''Workers' Control in Latin America, 1930-1979''

★ Argentina in March 1962 against Arturo FrondiziPage 150 ''African Military History and Politics: Ideological Coups and Incursions, 1900-Present''

★ Argentina in 1966 by Juan Carlos Onganía against Roberto M. LevingstonPage 16 ''Argentina's Lost Patrol: Armed Struggle, 1969-1979''

★ Argentina in 1976 by Jorge Rafael Videla against Isabel Martínez de PerónPage 116 ''Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environment Movement''

★ Azerbaijan in 1993 by Heydar Aliyev against Abülfaz ElçibayPage 130 ''Azerbaijan A Country Study''

★ Bangladesh on August 15, 1975 by army officers against Mujibur RahmanPage 184 ''God Willing: The Politics of Islamism in Bangladesh''

★ Bangladesh on March 24, 1982 by Hossain Mohammad Ershad against A. F. M. Ahsanuddin ChowdhuryPage 21 ''Bangladesh''

★ Bolivia in 1899 by José Manuel Pando against Severo Fernández Alonso

★ Bolivia by Bautista Saavedra Mallea against José Gutiérrez Guerra

★ Bolivia in 1930 by Carlos Blanco Galindo against Hernando Siles Reyes

★ Bolivia in 1934 by José Luis Tejada Sorzano against Daniel Salamanca Urey

★ Bolivia in 1936 by David Toro Ruilova against José Luis Tejada Sorzano

★ Bolivia in 1937 by Germán Busch Becerra against David Toro Ruilova

★ Bolivia in 1943 by Gualberto Villarroel López against Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo

★ Bolivia in 1946 by an angry mob, Néstor Guillén, and Tomás Monje against Gualberto Villarroel López

★ Bolivia in 1951 by Hugo Ballivián Rojas against Mamerto Urriolagoitia with the support of Urriolagoitia

★ Bolivia in 1952 by Víctor Paz Estenssoro against Hugo Ballivián Rojas

★ Bolivia in 1964 by René Barrientos against Víctor Paz Estenssoro
Page 175 ''Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press''

★ Bolivia in 1971 by Hugo Banzer against Juan José TorresPage 38 ''A Political and Economic Dictionary of Latin America''

★ Bolivia in 1980 by Luis García Meza TejadaPage 80 ''Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda''

★ Brazil in 1964 by Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco against João GoulartPage 141 ''Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World''

★ Bulgaria in 1944 by Kimon Georgiev against Konstantin MuravievPage 725 ''The Encyclopedia of World History: ancient, medieval, and modern, chronologically arranged''

★ Burkina Faso in 1983 by Blaise Compaoré against Jean-Baptiste OuédraogoCountry profile: Burkina Faso BBC News

★ Burkina Faso in 1987 by Blaise Compaoré against Thomas Sankara

★ Burma on March 1, 1962 by Ne Win against U NuObituary: Ne Win BBC News

★ Burma on September 18, 1988 by Saw Maung against Maung Maung KhaPage 64 ''The Burmese Connection: Illegal Drugs and the Making of the Golden Triangle''

★ Burundi in November 1966 by Michel Micombero against Ntare V of BurundiTimeline: Burundi BBC News

★ Burundi on July 25, 1996 by Pierre Buyoya Burundi: Leaders are changing but human rights abuses continue unabated Amnesty International

★ Cambodia in 1970 by Lon Nol against King Norodom SihanoukWho's who: Cambodia, Lon Nol PBS

★ Cambodia in 1993 by King Norodom Sihanouk against Hun Sen

★ Cambodia in 1997 by Hun Sen against Prince Norodom Ranariddh (Norodom Sihamoni became King in 2004)

★ Central African Republic in 1966 by Jean-Bédel Bokassa against David DackoPage 23 ''Central Africa''

★ Central African Empire in 1979 by David Dacko against Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa

★ Central African Republic in 1981 by André Kolingba against David Dacko

★ Central African Republic in 2003 by François Bozizé

★ Chad in 1975 by Noël Milarew Odingar against François TombalbayePage 354 ''West Africa's Security Challenges: Building Peace in a Troubled Region''

★ Chile on January 23, 1925 by Carlos Ibáñez del Campo and Marmaduke Grove Vallejo against Luis Altamirano Talaveraxlviii ''Historical Dictionary of Chile''

★ Chile on September 11, 1973 by Augusto Pinochet against Salvador AllendeA Chilean Dictator's Dark Legacy ''The Washington Post''

★ Ciskei in 1990 by Oupa Gqozo against Lennox SebePage 221 ''From Colonization to Democracy: A New Historical Geography of South Africa''

★ Colombia in June 1953 by Gustavo Rojas Pinilla against Laureano GómezPage 86 ''Conservative Parties, the Right, and Democracy in Latin America''

★ Comoros in 1999 by Azali Assoumani against Tadjidine Ben Said MassoundePage 753 ''Time Almanac'', 2004

★ Congo-Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo) in 1963 by Alphonse Massemba-Débat against Fulbert Youlou

★ Congo-Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo) in 1968 by Marien Ngouabi (People's Republic of the Congo) against Alphonse Massemba-DébatTimeline: Republic of Congo BBC News

★ Congo-Brazzavulle (People's Republic of the Congo) in 1979 by Denis Sassou Nguesso (Republic of the Congo) against Joachim Yhombi-Opango.

★ Congo-Léopoldville (Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1960 by Mobutu (Zaire) against Joseph Kasa-Vubu

★ Congo-Léopoldville (Zaire) in 1997 by Laurent-Désiré Kabila (Democratic Republic of the Congo) against Mobutu (Kabila was succeeded by his son, Joseph Kabila, in 2001 after a failed coups in which the elder Kabila was assassinated)

★ Costa Rica in 1870 by Bruno Carranza Ramírez

★ Costa Rica in 1876 by Vicente Herrera Zeledón

★ Costa Rica in 1917 by Federico Tinoco Granados

★ Côte d'Ivoire in 1999 by Robert Guéi

★ Cuba in 1952 by Fulgencio Batista against Carlos Prío Socarrás

★ Cuba in 1959 by Fidel Castro against General Fulgencio Batista

★ Cyprus in 1974 by Nikos Sampson against Archbishop Makarios III

★ Dahomey in 1963 by Christophe Soglo

★ Dahomey in 1972 by Mathieu Kérékou

★ Dominican Republic in 1963 under Emilio de los Santos

★ Ecuador in 1925 by Luis Telmo Paz y Miño

★ Ecuador in 1935 by Federico Páez

★ Ecuador in 1963 by Ramón Castro Jijón

★ Ecuador in 1972 by Guillermo Rodríguez

★ Ecuador in 2000 by Lucio Gutiérrez

★ Egypt in 1952 by Gamal Abdel Nasser

★ El Salvador in 1931 by Maximiliano Hernández Martínez

★ El Salvador in 1948 by Manuel de Jesús Córdova

★ El Salvador in 1960

★ El Salvador in 1979

★ Equatorial Guinea in 1979 by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo

★ Estonia in 1934 by Konstantin PätsPage 82 ''The Handbook of the Former Soviet Union''

★ Ethiopia in 1974 by General Aman Andom and the Dergue against Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia

★ Ethiopia in 1991 by General Tesfaye Gebre Kidan and the Dergue against General Mengistu Haile Mariam

★ Ethiopia in 1991 by Birhanu Bayeh and the Dergue against General Tesfaye Gebre Kidan

F-J

★ Fiji in 1987 by Sitiveni Rabuka

★ Fiji in 2000 by George Speight

★ Fiji in 2006 by Frank Bainimarama

★ France in 1792 by the National Convention against King Louis XVI of France, the French Revolution

★ France in 1799 by Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) and the French Consulate against the French Directory

★ France in 1804 by Emperor Napoleon I against the French Consulate

★ France in 1815 by Emperor Napoleon I against King Louis XVIII of France

★ France in 1830 by Louis-Philippe of France against King Charles X of France

★ France in 1848 by Louis-Eugène Cavaignac and Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III) against King Louis-Philippe of France

★ France in 1851 by Emperor Napoleon III against Louis-Eugène Cavaignac

★ France in 1870 by the French Third Republic against Emperor Napoleon III

★ Gambia in 1994 under Yahya Jammeh

★ Georgia from 1991 to 1992 by Eduard Shevardnadze against Zviad Gamsakhurdia

★ Ghana in 1966 by Joseph Arthur Ankrah against Kwame Nkrumah

★ Ghana in 1972 by Ignatius Kutu Acheampong against Kofi Abrefa Busia

★ Ghana in 1978 by Fred Akuffo against Ignatius Kutu Acheampong

★ Ghana in 1979 by Jerry John Rawlings for Hilla Limann against Fred Akuffo

★ Ghana in 1981 by Jerry John Rawlings against Hilla Limann

★ Greece in 1967 under Georgios Papadopoulos

★ Grenada in 1979 by Maurice Bishop against Eric Gairy

★ Grenada in 1983 by Bernard Coard against Maurice Bishop

★ Guatemala in 1963 under Enrique Peralta Azurdia

★ Guatemala in 1982 under Efraín Ríos Montt

★ Guinea in 1984 under Lansana Conté

★ Guinea-Bissau in 1980 under João Bernardo Vieira

★ Guinea-Bissau in 1999 under Ansumane Mané

★ Guinea-Bissau in 2003 under Veríssimo Correia Seabra

★ Haiti in 1946 by Dumarsais Estimé against Élie Lescot

★ Haiti in 1950 by Paul Eugène Magloire against Dumarsais Estimé

★ Haiti in 1986 by Henri Namphy against Jean-Claude Duvalier

★ Haiti in 1988 by Prosper Avril against Henri Namphy

★ Haiti on 30 September 1991 by Raoul Cédras against Jean-Bertrand Aristide

★ Honduras in 1956

★ Honduras in 1963 under Oswaldo López Arellano

★ Honduras in 1972 under Oswaldo López Arellano

★ Honduras in 1975 under Juan Alberto Melgar Castro

★ Honduras in 1978 under Policarpo Paz García

★ Kingdom of Hungary in 1944 under Ferenc Szálasi against Regent Miklós Horthy

★ Hungary in 1944 under Béla Miklós against Ferenc Szálasi

★ Indonesia in 1966 under Haji Mohammad Suharto

★ Iran in 1921 by Reza Shah Pahlavi against Ahmad Shah Qajar

★ Iran in 1953 by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi against Mohammed Mossadegh

★ Iran in 1979 byr Ayatollah Khomeini against Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

★ Iraq in 1958 by Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i and Abdul Karim Qassim against King Faisal II of Iraq

★ Iraq in 1963 by Abdul Salam Arif against Abdul Karim Qassim

★ Iraq in 1968 by Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr against Abdul Rahman Arif

★ Kingdom of Italy in 1922 by King Victor Emmanuel III and Benito Mussolini against Luigi Facta

★ Kingdom of Italy in 1943 by King Victor Emmanuel III and General Pietro Badoglio against fascist dictator Benito Mussolini

K-P

★ South Korea in 1961 under Park Chung Hee

★ South Korea in 1979 under Chun Doo-hwan

★ Laos in 1960 under Kong Le

★ Latvia in 1934 under Kārlis Ulmanis

★ Lesotho in 1986 by Justin Metsing Lekhanya against Leabua Jonathan

★ Liberia in 1980 by Staff Sargeant Samuel K. Doe against President William R. Tolbert, Jr. and the Americo-Liberian elite

★ Liberia in 1990 by rebel leader Prince Johnson against President Samuel K. Doe

★ Libya in 1969 by Muammar al-Qaddafi against King Idris I of Libya

★ Lithuania in 1926 under Antanas Smetona

★ Madagascar in 1972 under Gabriel Ramanantsoa

★ Mali in 1968 under Moussa Traoré

★ Mali in 1991 under Amadou Toumani Touré

★ Mauritania in 1978 under Mustafa Ould Salek

★ Mauritania in 2005 under Ely Ould Mohamed Vall

★ Mexico in 1867 by Benito Juarez against Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico

★ Mexico in 1876 by Porfirio Díaz against Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada

★ Mexico in 1911 by Francisco I. Madero against Porfirio Díaz (and Francisco León de la Barra)

★ Mexico in 1913 by Victoriano Huerta (and Pedro Lascuráin) against Francisco I. Madero

★ Mexico in 1915 by Venustiano Carranza and others against Victoriano Huerta

★ Mexico in 1920 by Adolfo de la Huerta against Venustiano Carranza

★ Muscat and Oman in 1970 under Qaboos bin Said

★ Nicaragua in 1856 under William Walker

★ Nicaragua in 1944 by Anastasio Somoza García for Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa against Leonardo Argüello Barreto

★ Niger in 1974 by Seyni Kountché against Hamani Diori

★ Niger in 1996 under Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara

★ Nigeria in 1966 under Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu

★ Nigeria in 1983 under Muhammadu Buhari

★ Nigeria in 1985 under Ibrahim Babangida

★ Panama in 1968 by Omar Torrijos against President Arnulfo Arias Madrid

★ Pakistan in 1958 by Field Marshal Ayub Khan against Iskander Mirza

★ Pakistan in 1977 by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq against Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

★ Pakistan in 1988 by Ghulam Ishaq Khan against Benazir Bhutto

★ Pakistan in 1999 by General Pervez Musharraf against Nawaz Sharif

★ Paraguay in 1989 under Andrés Rodríguez

★ Peru in 1914 under Óscar Benavides

★ Peru in 1919 under Augusto B. Leguía y Salcedo

★ Peru in 1930 under Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro

★ Peru in 1948 under Manuel A. Odría

★ Peru in 1962 under Ricardo Pérez Godoy

★ Peru in 1968 under Juan Velasco Alvarado

★ Peru in 1992 under Alberto Fujimori (dissolved Parliament)

★ Poland in 1926 under Józef Piłsudski

★ Portugal in 1926 under Gomes da Costa

★ Portugal in 1974 under António de Spínola

Q-V

★ Kingdom of Romania in 1938 by King Carol II of Romania against Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and the Iron Guard

★ Kingdom of Romania in 1940 by Ion Antonescu against King Carol II of Romania

★ Kingdom of Romania in 1944 by King Michael I of Romania and Constantin Sănătescu against Ion Antonescu

★ Kingdom of Romania in 1947 by Petru Groza against King Michael I of Romania

★ Romania in 1989 by the National Salvation Front against Nicolae Ceauşescu

★ Russia in 1917 under the Russian Provisional Government against Tsar Nicholas II of Russia

★ Russia in 1917 by Vladimir Lenin against the Russian Provisional Government

★ Rwanda in 1973 under Juvénal Habyarimana

★ São Tomé and Príncipe in 1995 under Manuel Quintas de Almeida

★ São Tomé and Príncipe in 2003 under Fernando Pereira

★ Seychelles in 1977 by France-Albert René against James Mancham

★ Seychelles "counter coups" in 1981 by France-Albert René against mercenary "Mad Mike" Hoare and 43 others

★ Sierra Leone in 1967 under David Lansana

★ Sierra Leone in 1967 under Andrew Juxon-Smith

★ Sierra Leone in 1968 under John Amadu Bangura

★ Sierra Leone in 1992 under Valentine Strasser

★ Sierra Leone in 1996 under Julius Maada Bio

★ Sierra Leone in 1997 under Johnny Paul Koroma

★ Solomon Islands in 2000 by the Malaitan Eagle Force

★ Somalia in 1969 by Muhammad Siad Barre

★ Somalia in 1991 by Ali Mahdi Muhammad against Muhammad Siad Barre

★ Spain in 1936 by Francisco Franco against Manuel Azaña

★ Sudan in 1958 under Ibrahim Abboud

★ Sudan in 1969 under Gaafar al-Nimeiry

★ Sudan in 1985 under Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab

★ Sudan in 1989 under Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir

★ Suriname in 1980 under Dési Bouterse

★ Suriname in 1990 under Ivan Graanoogst

★ Sweden in 1772 by Gustav III of Sweden against the Privy Council of Sweden

★ Syria in 1966 by Salah Jadid against Amin Hafiz

★ Syria in 1970 by Hafez al-Assad against Nureddin al-Atassi

★ Thailand in 2006 by General Sonthi Boonyaratglin against Thaksin Shinawatra

★ Togo in 1963 under Étienne Eyadéma

★ Transkei in 1987 under Bantu Holomisa

★ Tunisia in 1987 under Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

★ Turkey in 1960 under the National Unity Committee headed by Cemal Gürsel

★ Turkey in 1971 under four Force Commanders of the Turkish Armed Forces

★ Turkey in 1980 under Kenan Evren

★ Uganda in 1966 by Milton Obote against King Mutesa II of Buganda

★ Uganda in 1971 by Idi Amin against Milton Obote

★ Ukraine from 2004 to 2005 by Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych (the Orange Revolution) against Victor Yanukovich

★ Upper Volta in 1966 under Sangoulé Lamizana

★ Upper Volta in 1980 under Saye Zerbo

★ Upper Volta in 1982 under Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo

★ Upper Volta in 1983 under Thomas Sankara

★ Uruguay in 1933 under Gabriel Terra

★ Uruguay in 1973 by Juan María Bordaberry against his own governmentPage 590 ''The Americana Annual: An Encyclopedia of Current Events''

★ Venda in 1990 under Gabriel RamushwanaPage 106 ''The Territorial Management of Ethnic Conflict''

★ Venezuela in 1948 under Carlos Delgado Chalbaud

★ Venezuela in 2002 under Pedro Carmona (success often disputed; Carmona occupied the presidential office for roughly a day)

★ South Vietnam in 1963 under Duong Van Minh

W-Z

★ Yemen in 1962 under Abdullah as-Sallal

★ Yemen Arab Republic in 1974 under Ibrahim al-Hamadi

★ Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1941 by King Peter II of Yugoslavia against Regent Prince Paul of Yugoslavia

★ Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1945 by Josip Broz Tito against King Peter II of Yugoslavia

★ Zanzibar in 1964 under John Okello

References