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Coups d’état
Coups that succeeded, attempts that failed and plots stopped before they began: the Cline Center’s record since 1945, with the coups Wikidata knows from earlier centuries.
Open the live mapWhat you see
- Successful coups, failed attempts and plots as three kinds of politics event, each named as such in its popup and page.
- Click one for who carried it out (the military, dissidents, the ruling elite, foreign backers and others) and what became of the leader, where the Cline Center codes them.
- Opened from this page, the map plays 1945 to today.
Where the data comes from
- Cline CenterThe Coup d’État Project, version 2.2.2, from the University of Illinois: coups, attempts and conspiracies since 1945, by country.
- WikidataAbout 480 coups with a date and a place, many from before 1945.
The Cline Center publishes new versions; Wikidata’s grow as it does. Both are taken when imported.
Good to know
- The Cline Center places a coup at the country’s capital at the time, so two in three are drawn at a capital, not where troops moved.
- Where the Cline Center and Wikidata record the same coup (about 200), they are one event.
- Bolivia and Argentina have the most here.
The first recorded here in each century
- Heyin IncidentApr 528 · Coup
- Xuanwu Gate Incident5 Jul 626 · Coup
- Tanglong Coup25 Jul 710 · Coup
- Kusuko Incident810 · Coup
- Chenqiao Coup13 Feb 960 · Coup
- Gang Jo’s Coup1009 · Coup
- MiêuMar 1129 · Coup
- Hiki Yoshikazu's Rebellion9 Sep 1203 · Coup
- Håtuna games7 Oct 1306 · Coup
- Second Princes' Rebellion1400 · Coup
- Jungjong coup12 Sep 1506 · Coup
- Haile-i Osmaniye1621 · Coup
- 1711 Karamanli coup29 Jul 1711 · Coup
- Ottoman coups of 1807–18081807 · Coup
- 1900 Colombia coup d'état31 Jul 1900 · Coup
- 2000 Ecuadorian coup d'état2000 · Coup
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