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This is a list of coups d'état and coup attempts by country, listed in chronological order. A coup is an attempt to illegally overthrow a country's government. Scholars generally consider a coup successful when the usurpers are able to maintain control of the government for at least seven days.
A coup d'état (/ ˌ k uː d eɪ ˈ t ɑː / ⓘ; French: [ku deta] ⓘ; lit. ' stroke of state '), [1] or simply a coup, is the illegal, forceful overthrow of a government by a military organization or other government elites. [2] [3] A self-coup is when a leader, having come to power through legal means, stays in power through illegal means. [3]
The 1973 Chilean coup d'état (Spanish: Golpe de Estado en Chile de 1973) was a military overthrow of the democratic socialist president of Chile Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity coalition government.
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The coup plot was uncovered by an informant, and Banjo and two other conspirators were executed on 22 September. Transition to the New Order in Indonesia: Suharto overthrew Sukarno in a military coup in Indonesia, beginning the New Order and Suharto's 31-year presidency. Kapsan faction incident: Pak Kum-chol failed to overthrow Kim Il Sung.
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These events ended in the coup of March 29, 1962, led by General Raúl Poggi. The event that led to the coup was the sweeping victory of Peronism in the elections held eleven days before and in which ten of the fourteen then-existent provinces, including the strategic Province of Buenos Aires where the textile union leader Andrés Framini won.