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2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état. In November 2017, Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe was removed as president and party leader of ZANU–PF and was replaced by Emmerson Mnangagwa . On the evening of 14 November 2017, elements of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) gathered around Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, and seized control of the Zimbabwe ...
The overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom was a coup d'état against Queen Liliʻuokalani, which took place on January 17, 1893, on the island of Oʻahu and led by the Committee of Safety, composed of seven foreign residents and six Hawaiian Kingdom subjects of American descent in Honolulu. [ 5][ 6] The Committee prevailed upon American minister ...
A coup d'état, often abbreviated to coup, is the overthrow of a lawful government through illegal means. If force or violence are not involved, such an event is sometimes called a soft or bloodless coup. In another variation, a ruler who came to power through legal means may try to stay in power through illegal means, thus preventing the next ...
2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt. Part of Turkish government–Gülen movement conflict. Photo of coup plotter soldiers closing the Bosphorus Bridge, July 15, 2016. Date. 15 and 16 July 2016. Location. Mostly Ankara, Istanbul, Marmaris [ 12] Result. Turkish government victory.
Gunpowder Plot. Failure, plotters executed (some posthumously ). The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was an unsuccessful attempted regicide against King James I by a group of English Catholics led by Robert Catesby who considered their actions attempted tyrannicide and ...
After mutinous soldiers in Gabon announced they had deposed the country’s president, many residents danced in the streets and declared themselves free from the presidential family’s 55-year rule.
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was born on 22 November 1890 in Lille, the third of five children. [ 2] He was raised in a devoutly Catholic and traditional family. His father, Henri de Gaulle, was a professor of history and literature at a Jesuit college and eventually founded his own school. [ 3]: 42–47.
Coup plotter, money launderer Guy Philippe to be freed from U.S. prison, deported to Haiti. Jay Weaver. September 6, 2023 at 3:16 PM. Guy Philippe is a man of many moves.