Coup d'état of December Twelfth

Name: Coup d'état of December Twelfth
Start: 1979-12-12

12 Dec 1979 · 37.56° N, 126.99° E

What the records say

When: 12 Dec 1979
Kind: Coup
Coordinates: 37.56° N, 126.99° E
Description: 1979 December 12 coup d'état in South Korea ending its Fourth Republic that brought Chun Doo-hwan to power, beginning of the Fifth Republic

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Cline Center Coup d’État Project v2.2.2Cline Center for Advanced Social Research, University of Illinois · names it “Coup in South Korea”Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Coup d'état of December Twelfth: South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa without…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Source page
Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “انقلاب الثاني عشر من ديسمبر: اللواء تشون دو هوان في الجيش الكوري الجنوبي يأمر باعتقال رئيس أركان الجيش الجنرال جيونج سيونج هوا دون إذن من الرئيس تشوي كيو ها”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Source page
Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “韓國陸軍少將全斗煥在漢城发动雙十二政變。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Source page
Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “韓国で粛軍クーデター、全斗煥少将が軍の実権を掌握。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Source page