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List of coups d'état and coup attempts

This is a list of coups d'état and coup attempts. A list of revolutions and revolts can be found here: list of revolutions and revolts.

BC

509 - Members of the Tarquin dynasty led by Lucius Junius Brutus overthrew King of Rome Lucius Tarquinius Superbus and established the Roman Republic.
87 - During Sulla's first civil war, Lucius Cornelius Sulla invades Rome and deposes Gaius Marius.
82 - In Sulla's second civil war, Sulla again marched on Rome, removed Gaius Marius the Younger, and proclaimed himself as Roman dictator.
44 - On the Ides of March, Julius Caesar was assassinated by members of the Roman Senate. The conspirators did not gain control of the Roman Republic, instead, power eventually passed to the Second Triumvirate of Caesar supporters.

0-1200 AD

189: Ten Eunuchs of Later Han Dynasty were murdered by troops led by Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and Cao Cao; Dong Zhuo took over the government by force.
476: Odoacer, king of the Herules overthrows Romulus Augustus, last Roman emperor and sends the insignia to Constantinople; the Western Roman Empire thus ends.
632: Shi'a Muslims insist that the Succession to Muhammad was a coup.
642: Yeon Gaesomun of Goguryeo led a military coup that killed King Yeongryu and installed King Bojang as puppet under military rule.
680: King Wamba of the Visigoths is drugged, tonsured and dressed in a monk's cloak, so he would be considered an ordained man and hence he could not reign.
839: Jang Bogo of Silla overthrows King Minae and install King Sinmu on the throne.
1010: General Gang Jo of Goryeo stages a coup that overthrew King Mokjong.
1126: Yi Ja-gyeom of Goryeo makes a failed attempt to overthrow King Injong.
1170: General Jeong Jung-bu of Goryeo led a military coup that deposed King Uijong and installed puppet king Myeongjong under military regime.
1197: Choe Chung-heon of Goryeo stages a military coup that ousted and killed military dictator Yi Ui-Min, and deposed King Myeongjong.

1200-1800

1258: General Kim Jun of Goryeo overthrows and kills then-military dictator Choe Ui.
1388: General Yi Seonggye of Goryeo led a military coup that deposed King U, murdered General Choe Young, and installed puppet ruler King Chang and eventually King Gongyang. Yi later crowned himself, starting Joseon Dynasty.
1398: Prince Yi Bangwon of Joseon leads a coup that murdered Prime Minister Jeong Dojeon and two other princes.
1455: Prince Suyang of Joseon leads a coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Hwangbo In and Kim Jong Seo, whom were killed during the coup.
1506: A coup d'état in Joseon overthrew Prince Yeonsan and places King Jungjong on throne.
1623: A coup d'état in Joseon overthrew Prince Gwanghae and places King Injong on throne.
1605 - On November 5, a group of provincial English Catholics led by Guy Fawkes attempted to kill King James I and much of the Protestant aristocracy by blowing up the Houses of Parliament during the State Opening of Parliament.
1648: Pride's Purge-MPs who wished to continue political negotiations with Charles I were ejected from the House of Commons. Those remaining-known as the Rump-went on to agree that the king should be put on trial for his life.
1688: Glorious Revolution-the Catholic James II was deposed by a faction favorable to William of Orange. The opponents of the change became known as Jacobites from Jacobus, the Latin for James. Others see the event as a successful invasion and takeover by the Dutch Republic.
1772: Coup by Gustavus III, in order to strengthen royal power in the Swedish Constitution of 1772
1799: Coup de 18 Brumaire by Napoléon Bonaparte.

1800–1899

1808: Rum Rebellion in New South Wales deposes Governor William Bligh.
1823: One year after Brazilian Independence, Emperor Pedro I of Brazil dissolves the Constitutional Assembly, to decree a Constitution in the following year.

1829: Anastasio Bustamante overthrows and murders Vicente Guerrero in Mexico.
1832: Mexican president Anastasio Bustamante deposed for the first time by Antonio López de Santa Anna, replaced by Melchor Múzquiz.
1839: Mexican president Anastasio Bustamante deposed for the second time by Antonio López de Santa Anna
1840: Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, with fifteen years, is enthroned, although the law stipulated that he shouldn't be king before eighteen.
1851: the president of France, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte dissolves the Assembly and becomes the sole ruler of the country. In the following year, he would restore the Empire by referendum.
1854: Following the Plan of Ayutla, Benito Juarez deposes Santa Anna and installs Juan Álvarez as President of Mexico.
1864: Troops of French Emperor Napoleon III install Habsburg pretender Maximilian as Emperor of Mexico.
1867: By compulsion of Satcho Alliance, Tokugawa shogunate returned political power to Emperor Meiji.
1874: Arsenio Martínez Campos overthrows the First Spanish Republic and installs Alfonso XII as king.
1876: In Mexico, Porfirio Díaz overthrows President Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada
1889: a military coup led by Mal. Deodoro da Fonseca deposes the Brazilian Emperor, Peter II, proclaims the Republic and installs a provisional government.
1891: The President of Brazil, Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca is overthrown.
1893: With the aid of U.S. Marines, U.S. Department of State Minister to the Kingdom of Hawaii, John L. Stevens backs businessmen of native and foreign nationality in a coup that deposes Queen Lili'uokalani.
1898: Wilmington Insurection of 1898
1899: Cipriano Castro's army overthrows the government of Ignacio Andrade in Venezuela.

1900–1919

1903: Group named Black Hand leaded by Apis killed Alexander I of Serbia in coup d'état named Majski Puč (May Putsch)
1908: Juan Vicente Gómez declares himself president of Venezuela after Cipriano Castro leaves for Europe to receive medical treatment.
1910: A republican coup d'état deposes King Manuel II of Portugal and establishes the Portuguese First Republic.
1913: Military coup in Ottoman Empire lead by Enver Pasha, the CUP overthrew the Liberal Union coalition and introduced a military dictatorship, led by the Three Pashas. (Coup of 1913).
1913: During La decena tragica,General Victoriano Huerta overthows and murders the president of Mexico, Francisco Madero.
1919: István Friedrich overthrows the Hungarian Soviet Republic. Polish right-wing unsuccessfully tries to overthrow the left-wing government.

1920s

1920

In the Plan of Agua Prieta, General Álvaro Obregón, backed by labor unions and Zapatistas, ousts Mexican President Venustiano Carranza.
The Kapp Putsch, a failed attempt to overthrow Germany's Weimar Republic by the Freikorps Ehrhardt.1922
Between October 27 and 29, the March on Rome by the Blackshirts led to the installation of Benito Mussolini of the National Facist Party as prime minister of the Kingdom of Italy, supported by King Victor Emmanuel III. After the election of 1924 and the assassination of Giacomo Matteotti, Mussolini established a dictatorship on January 3, 1925.1923
Miguel Primo de Rivera installs a dictatorship in Spain without overthrowing the king.
The Beer Hall Putsch, a failed coup attempt by Adolf Hitler in Germany.
In Bulgaria, the military-backed 9 June coup d'état overthrows the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union of Aleksandar Stamboliyski, installing one headed by Aleksandar Tsankov.1924
Chilean President Arturo Alessandri resigns and flees after the army, led by Luis Altamirano, heads a coup.
Unsuccessful pro-Communist coup in Estonia.1925
General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo and Colonel Marmaduque Grove depose the military ruler of Chile, Luis Altamirano. They later allow former president Arturo Alessandri to return to Chile.1926
May Coup of Józef Piłsudski in Poland.
28th May military coup of Gomes da Costa in Portugal.
1926 Lithuanian coup d'état‎ of Antanas Smetona in Lithuania

1930s

1930: Getúlio Vargas takes power in Brazil, in a bloodless coup.
1930: Rafael Leónidas Trujillo takes from Horacio Vásquez, in the Dominican Republic after a devastating hurricane.
1930: Military coup in Argentina. General José Félix Uriburu overthrew President Hipólito Yrigoyen.
1932: The Mäntsälä Rebellion, failed coup attempt by the Lapua Movement in Finland.
1932: The May 15th Incident, a military coup in Japan.
1932: The Siamese coup d'état of 1932 marks the bloodless transition from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy in what is now called Thailand.
1932: The Chilean military heads a coup, which deposes President Juan Esteban Montero and creates the Socialist Republic of Chile. After twelve days, other army officers head a counter-coup and end the Socialist Republic. The new provisional president, Abraham Oyanedel, restores democracy.
1933: General Butler led the Bonus Army and came forward to the U.S. Congress in 1933 to report that a failed coup had been plotted by wealthy industrialists seeking to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This scandal is known as the Business Plot.
1933: The President of Uruguay, Gabriel Terra dissolves Parliament and heads a coup.
1933: Fulgencio Batista of Cuba ousts Carlos Manuel de Céspedes in the "Sergeants' Revolt".
1934: Coup of Kārlis Ulmanis in Latvia.
1934: Coup of Konstantin Päts in Estonia.
1934: 25 July failed coup attempt by Austrian Nazis, the so called July putsch (German: "Juliputsch"), resulting in the assassination of the chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß
1934: 19 May coup d'état in Bulgaria.
1935: failed Venizelist coup attempt on 1 March in Greece
1935: In an internal coup in Mexico, President Lazaro Cardenas deports and exiles ex-President Plutarco Elias Calles, effectively ending Calles' control over the Mexican government.
1935: On 10 October, General Georgios Kondylis deposes government and abolishes the Republic, restoring the Greek monarchy.
1936: Xi'an Incident, General Chiang Kai-shek was kidnapped by his deputy Zhang Xueliang, who demanded that Chiang stop fighting the Chinese Communists and instead agree to a united resistance against the Japanese. Madame Chiang and her brother T.V. Soong's subsequent negotiation with Zhang ensured the Generalissimo's release.
1936: Part of the army seizes control of parts of Spain commencing the Spanish Civil War. Later General Francisco Franco assumes control of the country.
1936: The February 26th Incident, a failed coup attempt in Japan by junior military officers that did succeed in installing a militarist government.
1936: Coup of Ioannis Metaxas in Greece on August 4, and establishment of the 4th of August Regime.
1937: Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas, governing democratically since 1934, launches a self-coup and becomes the Dictator of Brazilian Estado Novo ("New State").
1938: Vargas forces snuff out the attempted Integralista coup in Brazil. Vargas and guards shoot it out with insurgents at the Guanabara Palace.

1940s

1940: Soviet organized coups in Baltic States
1940: Juan Andreu Almazan attempts a coup to prevent the inauguration of Mexican president elect Manuel Avila Camacho.
1942: French resistance coup in Algiers, by which 400 Civil French patriots neutralized Vichyst XIXth Army Corps in Algiers during 15 hours, arrested vichyst generals (Juin, Darlan, etc.), and so allowed the immediate success of Operation Torch.
1943: Military coup in Argentina. Arturo Rawson overthrew Ramón Castillo. Juan Perón was part of this coup d'etat, and became so popular that he was democratically elected in 1946.
1944: The July 20 Plot, a failed attempt to overthrow Hitler in Nazi Germany, led by Claus von Stauffenberg.
1944: The 9 September coup d'état in Bulgaria.
1945: Getúlio Vargas's government in Brasil ends in a coup led by General Mourão, one of his former supporters.
1945: Isaías Medina Angarita is overthrown in a coup and Rómulo Betancourt is appointed to lead a civilian-military junta in Venezuela.
1947: Coup in Thailand.
1948: Communist coup in Czechoslovakia.
1948: Coup overthrows the democratically elected government of Rómulo Gallegos in Venezuela. A military junta is installed with Carlos Delgado Chalbaud as its leader.
1948: Failed coup attempt in Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen
1949: Military coup in Syria against France (First in Modern Arab History against colonialism)

1950s

1951

Military coup in Thailand
Left-Wing military coup attempt in Pakistan1952
Military coup in Egypt overthrows the monarchy.
Fulgencio Batista with U.S. support leads successful and bloodless coup to topple democratically elected government of Cuba.1953
United States/U.K. coup in Iran codenamed Operation Ajax, against the democratically-elected government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq. 1954
In Guatemala, the democratically-elected government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán was ousted by General Carlos Castillo Armas in an operation organized by the American Central Intelligence Agency codenamed Operation PBSUCCESS.
Military coup in Paraguay with U.S. support.
Military Coup in Yanaon (French Colony in India) led by Dadala Raphael Ramanayya, overthrown French rule in Yanaon.1955
A counter-coup in Brazil led by Marshal Lott with U.S. support overthrown the two-days-long legal government of Carlos Luz and prevents a coup against the elected president Juscelino Kubitschek.
Military coup with U.S. support overthrows Argentine President Juan Perón 1956
Unsuccessful military coup attempt led by Colonel Ramón Barquín against Cuban President Fulgencio Batista1957
The Colombian military supported strikes and student riots and deposed Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, giving power to the Colombian Military Junta and chairman Gabriel París Gordillo.
quasi-self-coup leads to the coexistence of two governments in San Marino for a month (so-called "Fatti di Rovereta").1958
Following failed attempts by American-trained air-force pilots in Venezuela to overthrow Marcos Perez Jimenez by bombing his palace, student riots broke out in Caracas. After three weeks of protests, the military removed Jimenez and installed Wolfgang Larrazábal, commander of the Venezuelan Navy.
Military coup in Pakistan. Army Chief and Defence Minister Gen. Ayub Khan overthrows the government of Iskander Mirza and becomes President after a winning a rigged referendum.
Military coup in Iraq overthrows the monarchy.
Military coup in France. General Jacques Massu takes over Algiers and threatens to invade Paris unless Charles de Gaulle becomes head of state.1959
Air Force military hijack a civil airplane and attempt a coup against Juscelino Kubitschek, in Brazil
Fidel Castro overthrows Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista

1960s

1960

Military coup in Turkey.
Military coup in Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Failed military coup against Haile Selassie I in Ethiopia1961
The coup d'état of 16 May in South Korea led by Park Chung Hee. Overthrew Second Republic of South Korea and established the Supreme Council for National Reconstruction.
Failed military coup in France in the midst of the Algerian War by four retired army generals seeking to overthrow president Charles de Gaulle, that himself came to power through the 1958 military coup d'état.1962
The military overthrew President Juan Bosch, the first democratically elected president in the Dominican Republic since 1924. Bosch was replaced by a junta until it was overthrown in 1965.
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes of Guatemala is overthrown by the military. Enrique Peralta Azurdia took power and established the Institutional Democratic Party until elections took place in 1966.
Military coup in Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen
Attempted military coup led by Christian officers in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
Military coup in Burma by General Ne Win overthrow the constitutionally elected government of Prime Minister U Nu.1963
Failed military coup attempt in Turkey.
Military coup in South Vietnam, overthrowing Ngo Dinh Diem with U.S. support.
Military coup in Ecuador.
Military coup in Togo.
Military coup in Syria.
Coup in Iraq backed by the CIA, followed by a counter-coup.1964
Humberto Castelo Branco was installed as president after a military coup in Brazil overthrew João Goulart.
Vice President René Barrientos and General Alfredo Ovando Candía of Bolivia overthrew President Víctor Paz Estenssoro.
Military coup in South Vietnam, overthrowing Duong Van Minh.1965
Military coup in Algeria Defense minister Col. Houari Boumedienne takes over .
Failed Military coup attempt in Indonesia.
Military coup in Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Military coup in Central African Republic.1966
Military coup in Ghana.
Military coup in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso).
Military coup in Syria.
Military coup in Nigeria leading to end of first republic. Major-General J.T.U Aguiyi-Ironsi becomes Head of State.
Shakhbut Bin-Sultan Al Nahyan, the ruler of the Abu Dhabi was deposed in a bloodless coup, being replaced by his brother Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
Military coup in Argentina. Civilian president Arturo Illia is overthrown by military forces supporting the leadership of General Juan Carlos Onganía.1967
Military coup in Greece. See Greek military junta of 1967-1974.
Attempted military coup ("Guitar-boy") in Ghana
Military coup in Nigeria. Yakubu Gowon comes to power.1968
Coup in Panama by Omar Torrijos.
Coup in Iraq returns the Ba'ath Party to power. 1969
Colonel Qadhafi overthrows monarchy in Libya.
Military coup in Somalia.
Military Coup in the Sudan.
Pedro Aleixo, the legal vice-president of Brasil, is replaced by a Military Junta after Artur da Costa e Silva leaves the office due to a stroke.

1970s

1970: Military coup in Pakistan, Army Chief Gen. Yahya Khan forces President Field Marshal Ayub Khan (who himself came to power in a coup) to hand over power to him.
1970: Coup in Syria, led by Hafez al-Assad
1970: Coup in Bolivia with U.S. support, soon followed by a leftist countercoup.
1970: Coup in Oman, Qaboos bin Said ousts his father Said bin Taimur to become Sultan.
1970: Coup attempt in Italy by fascist groups.(Golpe Borghese).
1971: Military coup in Turkey (Coup by Memorandum).
1971: Military coup in Uganda led by Idi Amin.
1971: Prime Minister Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn launches a self-coup overthrow his own government in Thailand.
1972: Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong led a coup d'état to overthrow the democratically elected government of the Progress Party and its leader Dr. Kofi Busia on 13 January 1972.[Ghana]
1973: A military coup with U.S. support in Chile deposes democratically-elected president Salvador Allende, who dies during the coup, and installs the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. See Chilean coup of 1973.
1973: The President of Uruguay dissolves Parliament and heads a coup.
1974: Leftist military coup in Portugal remove dictatorship.
1974: Military coup in Cyprus sponsored by Greek colonels overthrows Makarios and triggers invasion by Turkey.
1974: Military coup in Ethiopia by the communist junta led by General Aman Andom and Mengistu Haile Mariam.
1975: Military coup in Bangladesh led by a 1971 freedom fighter, a young Major, Major Shariful Huq Dalim that overthrows the government of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and set Khondaker Mustaq Ahmed as the head of the state.
1975 Military coup in the Comoros; mercenary Bob Denard removed president Ahmed Abdallah from office in an armed coup on August 3, 1975,
1975: Military coup in Nigeria overthrows Yakubu Gowon. Murtala Ramat Mohammed comes to power.
1975: Military coup in Bangladesh led by General Khaled Mosharraf, arrests Army Chief Of Staff Ziaur Rahman. 4 days later, Khaled Mosharraf was killed in a counter-coup lead by Abu Taher, which frees General Ziaur Rahman & restores him as the Army Chief of Staff.
1975: Military coup in Chad overthrows and kills President François Tombalbaye.
1976: Military coup in Ecuador.
1976: Military coup in Thailand.
1976: Failed coup attempt in Nigeria. Murtala Ramat Mohammed killed but Olusegun Obasanjo escapes assassination and becomes head of state.
1976: Military coup in Argentina leads to the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional.
1977: Military coup in Pakistan with U.S. support. Army Chief Gen. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq overthrows the civilian government and hangs Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1979 after a sham trial.
1978: Communist coup in Afghanistan.
1979: The Coup d'état of December Twelfth in South Korea. Chun Doo-hwan established presidentship.
1979: On 4th June, Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings, Maj. Boakye Danquah and others lead a military uprising that removes the government of Gen. FWK Akuffo from power after an earlier unsuccessful attempt in May.

1980s

1980

'Cocaine Coup' in Bolivia of Luis García Meza Tejada.
Military coup in Turkey.
Military coup in Liberia, led by Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe, overthrows government led by President William R. Tolbert, ending 102 years of continuous rule by the True Whig Party.
Military coup in Guinea Bissau.
Successful coup in Suriname by military officers led by Dési Bouterse that resulted in military rule until 1988.1981
Failed coup in Spain led by Antonio Tejero.
Failed coup in The Gambia led by Kukoi Sanyang; suppressed by Dawda Jawara with the assistance of Senegalese troops
Failed Military coup attempt in Bangladesh killed Ziaur Rahman.
Failed coup in Suriname, led by Wilfred Hawker
31 December Flt. lt. Jerry John Rawlings stages a second successful military coup in Ghana overthrowing Dr. Hilla Limann's constitutional government.
Failed coup in Seychelles led by Mike Hoare.
Successful military coup in Poland led by Wojciech Jaruzelski.1982
Military coup in Bangladesh by General Hossain Mohammad Ershad overthrow the constitutionally elected government of President Abdus Sattar.
Failed coup in Kenya by some members of the Kenya Air Force.
Failed coup in Suriname, led by Surendre Rambocus.1983
Military palace coup in Nigeria. Second republic president Shagari overthrown; Muhammadu Buhari takes power.
Military coup in Grenada by Hudson Austin and counter coup and invasion with U.S. support.1984
Cameroonian Palace Guard Revolt
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya raise to power in Mauritania after a coup that overthrow the president Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla.1985
Military coup in Uganda led by Bazilio Olara-Okello and Tito Okello.
Military coup in Nigeria. Ibrahim Babangida replaces Muhammadu Buhari.1986
Failed coup in Philippines led by Juan Ponce Enrile and Gregorio Honasan. This lead to events of February 22 to 25 in 1986, better known as the People Power Revolution.1987
Failed coup attempt, known as the August 1987 Coup, in the Philippines led by Col. Gregorio Honasan.
Bloodless military coup in Fiji led by Lt. Col. Sitiveni Rabuka overthrowing the government of Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra and also deposing Queen Elizabeth as head of state. After temporarily handing power to a council of ministers, Rabuka later that year seized control of the country again and declared it a republic.
Bloodless Palace coup in Tunisia led by Prime Minister General Zine El Abidine Ben Ali overthrow President Habib Bourguiba.1988
Military coup in Burma crushing the 'Four Eights' uprising.1989
Another failed coup attempt in the Philippines, by Col. Gregorio Honasan. This coup is sometimes called the December 1989 coup.

1990s

1990 Failed coup attempt in Trinidad & Tobago led by Jamaat al Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr (July 27th) Failed coup attempt in Nigeria led by Col. Gideon Orkar.1991

Failed coup attempt (the so-called August Putsch) in the Soviet Union.
Haiti U.S. backs armed group FRAPH which oust democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a military coup d'état in September, 1991 he is replaced with a military junta led by Raoul Cédras until U.S. President Clinton orders Aristide's return to resume his mandate as president
Military coup in Thailand. Results in infamous incident Black May.
Military coup in Georgia removes President Zviad Gamsakhurdia from office.1992
Military coup in Algeria cancels elections and forces President to resign.
Alberto Fujimori launches a self-coup in Peru.
Hugo Chávez, current President of Venezuela, attempts a coup against then president Carlos Andres Perez and surrenders upon the realization of defeat.1993
Russian President Boris Yeltsin successfully launches a self-coup, illegally dissolving the Russian parliament.1994
Military coup in The Gambia.197
Military coup in Turkey, called 'post-modern coup' (February 28), overthrows the coalition government.1999
Military coup in Pakistan. Army refuses to obey Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government. General Pervez Musharraf becomes leader (with the title "Chief Executive") and exiles Nawaz Sharif to Saudi Arabia.
Military coup in Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast).

2000–present

2000

On January 21, indigenous Ecuadorians protested the economic policies of President Jamil Mahuad. Colonel Lucio Gutiérrez allowed the protesters to take over the National Congress. A junta brieftly takes power, but within hours Vice President Gustavo Noboa regains control, with support of the protestors. Gutiérrez is later elected president in 2002 as a member of the January 21 Patriotic Society Party.
George Speight attempts a coup against the prime minister of Fiji, Mahendra Chaudhry.2002
The Venezuelan military surrounded the presidential palace on April 11. Military leaders entered the palace and demanded the resignation of President Hugo Chávez, which he allegedly did. Chávez was taken into hiding, and businessman Pedro Carmona was briefly installed as president. Loyalists shortly retook the palace, and Vice President Diosdado Cabello was installed as interim president, until Chávez was reinstated on April 14.2003
Military coup in Central African Republic.
Attempted coup in Mauritania.

Military coup in São Tomé and Príncipe.
Military coup in Guinea-Bissau.
Failed mutiny and coup attempt in the Philippines led by right-wing junior officers known as the Magdalo.2004
Attempted coup in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Failed coup d'état in Chad against President Idriss Déby.
Second attempted coup in the Democratic Republic of Congo (June).
Attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea.2005
Coup in Togo legalized by parliamentary vote but unrecognized by international community.
King Gyanendra of Nepal overthrows the government, making him the head of government. The government is reestablished April 24, 2006 after a massive democracy movement.
Ecuadorian President Lucio Gutiérrez is ousted after street protests and Alfredo Palacio takes his office.
A military coup in Mauritania overthrows President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya. A new government is set up by a group of military officers headed by Ely Ould Mohamed Vall. The group formed the Military Council for Justice and Democracy to act as the governing council of the country.2006
The Armed Forces of the Philippines allegedly attempted a military coup in the Philippines targeting President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, which led to a state of emergency in the country.
The United Front for Democratic Change allegedly attemptes to instigate a military coup in Chad to overthrow President Idriss Déby.
The Royal Thai Army orchestrates a coup in Thailand that overthrows Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra while he is out of the country.
The Malagasy Popular Armed Forces allegedly attempt a military coup in Madagascar against President Marc Ravalomanana.
The military of Fiji overthrows President Josefa Iloilo and Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase in a bloodless coup.
The military of Côte d'Ivoire claims to foil a coup attempt targeting President Laurent Gbagbo.
Partially successful coup by Hamas against the Fatah Presidency in the Palestinian territories.2007
An alleged coup attempt by General Vang Pao and others in the United States to overthrow the Laotian government is foiled.
Philippines rebel forces led by opposition politician Sen. Antonio Trillanes, storm the Peninsula hotel in an attempted coup.
Military coup in Turkey, called 'e-coup' (April 27), delivers an ultimatum to the AKP government by e-mail.2008
2008: East Timorese president José Ramos-Horta is shot and injured in what prime minister Xanana Gusmao describes as an attempted coup.
2008: A military coup in Mauritania involving the seizure of the president, prime minister, and interior minister after the sacking of several military officials and a political crisis in which 48 MPs walked off the job and a vote of no confidence in cabinet.