coup d'état
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concept
A coup d'état is a sudden, often illegal and forceful seizure of state power by a small group, typically involving elements of the military or political elite, that removes the existing government without fundamentally altering the broader constitutional or social order.
Observed surface forms (5)
- coup ×2
- coup d’état ×2
- government junta ×1
- palace coup ×1
- political coup ×1
Instances (19)
- Thermidorian Reaction via concept surface "coup"
- Second Government Junta of Chile via concept surface "government junta"
- 2013 Egyptian coup d'état
- Wilmington insurrection of 1898
- Przewrót majowy
- May Coup d'État
- Xi’an Incident via concept surface "coup"
- 1969 Libyan coup d'état
- Czechoslovak coup d’état of 1948 via concept surface "coup d’état"
- Storming of the Winter Palace via concept surface "coup d’état"
- Coup of 18 Brumaire
- 1979 Salvadoran coup d'état
- Yugoslav military coup of 27 March 1941
- Mutiny of Aranjuez via concept surface "palace coup"
- 1973 Chilean coup d'état
- March on Rome
- Saur Revolution
- Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893 via concept surface "political coup"
- 1958 Iraqi coup d'état