King Michael's Coup

When

23 Aug 1944

Kind

Coup

Coordinates

47.16° N, 27.59° E

Description

1944 coup d'état led by Romanian King Michael I

Coup d'état led by Romanian king Michael I

The 1944 Romanian coup d'état, better known in Romanian historiography as the Act of 23 August, was a coup d'état led by King Michael I of Romania during World War II on 23 August 1944. With the support of several political parties, the king removed the government of Ion Antonescu, which had aligned Romania with Nazi Germany, after the Axis front in northeastern Romania collapsed in the face of a successful Soviet of…

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• Wikidata: treaties and coupsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “King Michael's Coup: Ion Antonescu, Conducator of Romania, and Mihai Antonescu, Foreign Minister of Romania, are arrested and a new military government…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Der Königliche Staatsstreich unter der Führung des rumänischen Königs Michael I. beendet die Militärdiktatur von Marschall Ion Antonescu und in weiterer Folge…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “le roi Michel de Roumanie, par un véritable coup d’État, limoge Ion Antonescu qui est arrêté, et un gouvernement de coalition, le Front démocratique, est…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Переворот в Румынии”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ルーマニア王国でクーデター（ルーマニア革命）。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page