Knowledge Center: List Of Successful Coups D'état

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

A-E

Afghanistan in 1973 by Mohammed Daoud Khan against Mohammad Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan^[1]
Afghanistan in 1978 by Nur Muhammad Taraki against Mohammed Daoud Khan ^[2]
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 Bella^[3]
Algeria in 1992 by Khaled Nezzar against Chadli Bendjedid^[4]
Argentina on September 6, 1930 by José Félix Uriburu against Hipólito Yrigoyen^[5]
Argentina in 1943 by Arturo Rawson against Ramón Castillo^[6]
Argentina in 1955 by Eduardo Lonardi against Juan Perón^[7]
Argentina in March 1962 against Arturo Frondizi^[8]
Argentina in 1966 by Juan Carlos Onganía against Roberto M. Levingston^[9]
Argentina in 1976 by Jorge Rafael Videla against Isabel Martínez de Perón^[10]
Azerbaijan in 1993 by Heydar Aliyev against Abülfaz Elçibay^[11]
Bangladesh on August 15, 1975 by army officers against Mujibur Rahman^[12]
Bangladesh on March 24, 1982 by Hossain Mohammad Ershad against A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury^[13]
Bolivia in 1899 by José Manuel Pando against Severo Fernández Alonso
Bolivia in 1920 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 and the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement against Hugo Ballivián Rojas
Bolivia in 1964 by René Barrientos against Víctor Paz Estenssoro^[14]
Bolivia in 1970 by Juan José Torres against Alfredo Ovando Candía
Bolivia in 1971 by Hugo Banzer against Juan José Torres^[15]
Bolivia in 1980 by Luis García Meza Tejada^[16]
Brazil in 1889 by Deodoro da Fonseca against Peter II of Brazil. ^[17]
Brazil in 1964 by Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco against João Goulart^[18]
Bulgaria in 1923 by the Army against Aleksandar Stamboliyski
Bulgaria in 1934 by Kimon Georgiev against Zveno
Bulgaria in 1944 by Kimon Georgiev against Konstantin Muraviev^[19]
Burkina Faso in 1983 by Blaise Compaoré against Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo^[20]
Burkina Faso in 1987 by Blaise Compaoré against Thomas Sankara^[20]
Burma on March 1, 1962 by Ne Win against U Nu^[21]
Burma on September 18, 1988 by Saw Maung against Maung Maung Kha^[22]
Burundi in November 1966 by Michel Micombero against Ntare V of Burundi^[23]
Burundi on July 25, 1996 by Pierre Buyoya ^[24]
Cambodia in 1970 by Lon Nol against King Norodom Sihanouk^[25]
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 Dacko^[26]
Central African Empire in 1979 by David Dacko against Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa^[26]
Central African Republic in 1981 by André Kolingba against David Dacko^[26]
Central African Republic in 2003 by François Bozizé ^[26]
Chad in 1975 by Noël Milarew Odingar against François Tombalbaye^[27]
Chile on January 23, 1925 by Carlos Ibáñez del Campo and Marmaduke Grove Vallejo against Luis Altamirano Talavera^[28]
Chile on September 11, 1973 by Augusto Pinochet against Salvador Allende^[29]
Ciskei in 1990 by Oupa Gqozo against Lennox Sebe^[30]
Colombia in June 1953 by Gustavo Rojas Pinilla against Laureano Gómez^[31]
Comoros in 1999 by Azali Assoumani against Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde^[32]
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-Débat^[33]
Congo-Brazzaville (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 Patrice Lumumba
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 Guéï
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
Czechoslovakia in 1948 by the Communist Party against non-Communists
Dahomey in 1963 by Christophe Soglo
Dahomey in 1972 by Mathieu Kérékou
Denmark in 1660 by Frederick III of Denmark
Denmark in 1772 by Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and her son Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark and Norway.
Denmark in 1784 by crownprince Frederick of Denmark.
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 Päts^[34]
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
Guam in 1898 by José Sisto against Francisco Portusach Martínez
Guam in 1898 by Venancio Roberto against José Sisto
Guatemala in 1963 under Enrique Peralta Azurdia
Guatemala in 1982 under Efraín Ríos Montt
Guinea in 1984 under Lansana Conté
Guinea in 2008 by the military after the death of 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
Haiti in February 2004 against Jean-Bertrand Aristide who was replaced by Boniface Alexandre
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
Honduras in 2009 by the army led by General Romeo Vasquez Velasquez against Manuel Zelaya. Opinion is divided as to whether or not it was a coup.
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 Suharto
Iran in 1921 by Reza Shah Pahlavi against Ahmad Shah Qajar
Iran in 1953 by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi against Mohammed Mossadegh
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
Ireland in 1921 by Irish Republican Army against United Kingdom
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
Kyrgyzstan in 2010 against Kurmanbek Bakiyev
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 Sergeant 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-Gaddafi against King Idris I of Libya
Lithuania in 1926 under Antanas Smetona
Madagascar in 1972 under Gabriel Ramanantsoa
Madagascar in 2009 by Andry Rajoelina against Marc Ravalomanana
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
Mauritania in 2008 under Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
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^[27]
Niger in 1996 under Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara
Niger in 2010 against Mamadou Tandja
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 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
Poland in 1981 under Wojciech Jaruzelski
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
Principality of Romania in 1866 by the "Monstrous Coalition" of Liberals and Conservatives against prince Alexander John Cuza
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
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 on 25 February 1980 under Dési Bouterse ousting Prime Minister Henck Arron
Suriname in 13 August 1980 under Dési Bouterse ousting President Johan Ferrier
Suriname in 1990 under Dési Bouterse
Sweden in 1772 by Gustav III of Sweden against the Privy Council of Sweden
Sweden in 1809 by a number of army officers against king Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden
Syria in 1966 by Salah Jadid against Amin Hafiz
Syria in 1970 by Hafez al-Assad against Nureddin al-Atassi
Thailand in 1932 by Field Marshal Phibunsongkhram, Dr. Pridi Phanomyong, Khuang Abhaiwongse, and Prayoon Phamornmontri (members of the People's Party, Khana Ratsadon) against King Prajadhipok (Rama VII)
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
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 government^[35]
Venda in 1990 under Gabriel Ramushwana^[36]
Venezuela in 1948 under Carlos Delgado Chalbaud
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

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