A-E
- Afghanistan in 1973 by Mohammed Daoud Khan against Mohammad Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan
- Afghanistan in 1978 by Nur Muhammad Taraki against Mohammed Daoud Khan
- Afghanistan in 1979 by Hafizullah Amin against Nur Muhammad Taraki
- Afghanistan in 1979 by Babrak Karmal against Hafizullah Amin
- Algeria in 1965 by Houari Boumedienne against Ahmed Ben Bella
- Algeria in 1992 by Khaled Nezzar against Chadli Bendjedid
- Argentina on September 6, 1930 by José Félix Uriburu against Hipólito Yrigoyen
- Argentina in 1943 by Arturo Rawson against Ramón Castillo
- Argentina in 1955 by Eduardo Lonardi against Juan Perón
- Argentina in March 1962 against Arturo Frondizi
- Argentina in 1966 by Juan Carlos Onganía against Roberto M. Levingston
- Argentina in 1976 by Jorge Rafael Videla against Isabel Martínez de Perón
- Azerbaijan in 1993 by Heydar Aliyev against Abülfaz Elçibay
- Bangladesh on August 15, 1975 by army officers against Mujibur Rahman
- Bangladesh on March 24, 1982 by Hossain Mohammad Ershad against A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury
- Bolivia in 1899 by José Manuel Pando against Severo Fernández Alonso
- Bolivia in 1920 by Bautista Saavedra Mallea against José Gutiérrez Guerra
- Bolivia in 1930 by Carlos Blanco Galindo against Hernando Siles Reyes
- Bolivia in 1934 by José Luis Tejada Sorzano against Daniel Salamanca Urey
- Bolivia in 1936 by David Toro Ruilova against José Luis Tejada Sorzano
- Bolivia in 1937 by Germán Busch Becerra against David Toro Ruilova
- Bolivia in 1943 by Gualberto Villarroel López against Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo
- Bolivia in 1946 by an angry mob, Néstor Guillén, and Tomás Monje against Gualberto Villarroel López
- Bolivia in 1951 by Hugo Ballivián Rojas against Mamerto Urriolagoitia with the support of Urriolagoitia
- Bolivia in 1952 by Víctor Paz Estenssoro and the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement against Hugo Ballivián Rojas
- Bolivia in 1964 by René Barrientos against Víctor Paz Estenssoro
- Bolivia in 1970 by Juan José Torres against Alfredo Ovando Candía
- Bolivia in 1971 by Hugo Banzer against Juan José Torres
- Bolivia in 1980 by Luis García Meza Tejada
- Brazil in 1889 by Deodoro da Fonseca against Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil.
- Brazil in 1964 by Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco against João Goulart
- Bulgaria in 1923 by the Army against Aleksandar Stamboliyski
- Bulgaria in 1934 by Kimon Georgiev against Zveno
- Bulgaria in 1944 by Kimon Georgiev against Konstantin Muraviev
- Burkina Faso in 1983 by Blaise Compaoré against Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo
- Burkina Faso in 1987 by Blaise Compaoré against Thomas Sankara
- Burma on March 1, 1962 by Ne Win against U Nu
- Burma on September 18, 1988 by Saw Maung against Maung Maung Kha
- Burundi in November 1966 by Michel Micombero against Ntare V of Burundi
- Burundi on July 25, 1996 by Pierre Buyoya
- Cambodia in 1970 by Lon Nol against King Norodom Sihanouk
- Cambodia in 1993 by King Norodom Sihanouk against Hun Sen
- Cambodia in 1997 by Hun Sen against Prince Norodom Ranariddh (Norodom Sihamoni became King in 2004)
- Central African Republic in 1966 by Jean-Bédel Bokassa against David Dacko[26]
- Central African Empire in 1979 by David Dacko against Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa
- Central African Republic in 1981 by André Kolingba against David Dacko
- Central African Republic in 2003 by François Bozizé
- Chad in 1975 by Noël Milarew Odingar against François Tombalbaye
- Chile on January 23, 1925 by Carlos Ibáñez del Campo and Marmaduke Grove Vallejo against Luis Altamirano Talavera[28]
- Chile on September 11, 1973 by Augusto Pinochet against Salvador Allende[29]
- Ciskei in 1990 by Oupa Gqozo against Lennox Sebe[30]
- Colombia in June 1953 by Gustavo Rojas Pinilla against Laureano Gómez[31]
- Comoros in 1999 by Azali Assoumani against Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde[32]
- Congo-Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo) in 1963 by Alphonse Massemba-Débat against Fulbert Youlou
- Congo-Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo) in 1968 by Marien Ngouabi (People's Republic of the Congo) against Alphonse Massemba-Débat[33]
- Congo-Brazzaville (People's Republic of the Congo) in 1979 by Denis Sassou Nguesso (Republic of the Congo) against Joachim Yhombi-Opango.
- Congo-Léopoldville (Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1960 by Mobutu (Zaire) against Patrice Lumumba
- Congo-Léopoldville (Zaire) in 1997 by Laurent-Désiré Kabila (Democratic Republic of the Congo) against Mobutu (Kabila was succeeded by his son, Joseph Kabila, in 2001 after a failed coups in which the elder Kabila was assassinated)
- Costa Rica in 1870 by Bruno Carranza Ramírez
- Costa Rica in 1876 by Vicente Herrera Zeledón
- Costa Rica in 1917 by Federico Tinoco Granados
- Côte d'Ivoire in 1999 by Robert Guéï
- Cuba in 1952 by Fulgencio Batista against Carlos Prío Socarrás
- Cuba in 1959 by Fidel Castro against General Fulgencio Batista
- Cyprus in 1974 by Nikos Sampson against Archbishop Makarios III
- Czechoslovakia in 1948 by the Communist Party against non-Communists
- Dahomey in 1963 by Christophe Soglo
- Dahomey in 1972 by Mathieu Kérékou
- Denmark in 1660 by Frederick III of Denmark
- Denmark in 1772 by Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and her son Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark and Norway.
- Denmark in 1784 by crownprince Frederick of Denmark.
- Dominican Republic in 1963 under Emilio de los Santos
- Ecuador in 1925 by Luis Telmo Paz y Miño
- Ecuador in 1935 by Federico Páez
- Ecuador in 1963 by Ramón Castro Jijón
- Ecuador in 1972 by Guillermo Rodríguez
- Ecuador in 2000 by Lucio Gutiérrez
- Egypt in 1952 by Gamal Abdel Nasser
- El Salvador in 1931 by Maximiliano Hernández Martínez
- El Salvador in 1948 by Manuel de Jesús Córdova
- El Salvador in 1960
- El Salvador in 1979
- Equatorial Guinea in 1979 by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
- Estonia in 1934 by Konstantin Päts
- Ethiopia in 1974 by General Aman Andom and the Dergue against Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
- Ethiopia in 1991 by General Tesfaye Gebre Kidan and the Dergue against General Mengistu Haile Mariam
- Ethiopia in 1991 by Birhanu Bayeh and the Dergue against General Tesfaye Gebre Kidan
F-J
- Fiji in 1987 by Sitiveni Rabuka
- Fiji in 2000 by George Speight
- Fiji in 2006 by Frank Bainimarama
- France in 1792 by the National Convention against King Louis XVI of France, the French Revolution
- France in 1799 by Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) and the French Consulate against the French Directory
- France in 1804 by Emperor Napoleon I against the French Consulate
- France in 1815 by Emperor Napoleon I against King Louis XVIII of France
- France in 1830 by Louis-Philippe of France against King Charles X of France
- France in 1848 by Louis-Eugène Cavaignac and Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III) against King Louis-Philippe of France
- France in 1851 by Emperor Napoleon III against Louis-Eugène Cavaignac
- France in 1870 by the French Third Republic against Emperor Napoleon III
- Gambia in 1994 under Yahya Jammeh
- Georgia from 1991 to 1992 by Eduard Shevardnadze against Zviad Gamsakhurdia
- Ghana in 1966 by Joseph Arthur Ankrah against Kwame Nkrumah
- Ghana in 1972 by Ignatius Kutu Acheampong against Kofi Abrefa Busia
- Ghana in 1978 by Fred Akuffo against Ignatius Kutu Acheampong
- Ghana in 1979 by Jerry John Rawlings for Hilla Limann against Fred Akuffo
- Ghana in 1981 by Jerry John Rawlings against Hilla Limann
- Greece in 1967 under Georgios Papadopoulos
- Grenada in 1979 by Maurice Bishop against Eric Gairy
- Grenada in 1983 by Bernard Coard against Maurice Bishop
- Guam in 1898 by José Sisto against Francisco Portusach Martínez
- Guam in 1898 by Venancio Roberto against José Sisto
- Guatemala in 1963 under Enrique Peralta Azurdia
- Guatemala in 1982 under Efraín Ríos Montt
- Guinea in 1984 under Lansana Conté
- Guinea in 2008 by the military after the death of Lansana Conté
- Guinea-Bissau in 1980 under João Bernardo Vieira
- Guinea-Bissau in 1999 under Ansumane Mané
- Guinea-Bissau in 2003 under Veríssimo Correia Seabra
- Haiti in 1946 by Dumarsais Estimé against Élie Lescot
- Haiti in 1950 by Paul Eugène Magloire against Dumarsais Estimé
- Haiti in 1986 by Henri Namphy against Jean-Claude Duvalier
- Haiti in 1988 by Prosper Avril against Henri Namphy
- Haiti on 30 September 1991 by Raoul Cédras against Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Haiti in February 2004 against Jean-Bertrand Aristide who was replaced by Boniface Alexandre
- Honduras in 1956
- Honduras in 1963 under Oswaldo López Arellano
- Honduras in 1972 under Oswaldo López Arellano
- Honduras in 1975 under Juan Alberto Melgar Castro
- Honduras in 1978 under Policarpo Paz García
- Honduras in 2009 by the army led by General Romeo Vasquez Velasquez against Manuel Zelaya. Opinion is divided as to whether or not it was a coup.
- Kingdom of Hungary in 1944 under Ferenc Szálasi against Regent Miklós Horthy
- Hungary in 1944 under Béla Miklós against Ferenc Szálasi
- Indonesia in 1966 under Suharto
- Iran in 1921 by Reza Shah Pahlavi against Ahmad Shah Qajar
- Iran in 1953 by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi against Mohammed Mossadegh
- Iraq in 1958 by Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i and Abdul Karim Qassim against King Faisal II of Iraq
- Iraq in 1963 by Abdul Salam Arif against Abdul Karim Qassim
- Ireland in 1921 by Irish Republican Army against United Kingdom
- Iraq in 1968 by Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr against Abdul Rahman Arif
- Kingdom of Italy in 1922 by King Victor Emmanuel III and Benito Mussolini against Luigi Facta
- Kingdom of Italy in 1943 by King Victor Emmanuel III and General Pietro Badoglio against fascist dictator Benito Mussolini
K-P
- South Korea in 1961 under Park Chung Hee
- South Korea in 1979 under Chun Doo-hwan
- Kyrgyzstan in 2010 against Kurmanbek Bakiyev
- Laos in 1960 under Kong Le
- Latvia in 1934 under Kārlis Ulmanis
- Lesotho in 1986 by Justin Metsing Lekhanya against Leabua Jonathan
- Liberia in 1980 by Staff Sergeant Samuel K. Doe against President William R. Tolbert, Jr. and the Americo-Liberian elite
- Liberia in 1990 by rebel leader Prince Johnson against President Samuel K. Doe
- Libya in 1969 by Muammar al-Gaddafi against King Idris I of Libya
- Lithuania in 1926 under Antanas Smetona
- Madagascar in 1972 under Gabriel Ramanantsoa
- Madagascar in 2009 by Andry Rajoelina against Marc Ravalomanana
- Mali in 1968 under Moussa Traoré
- Mali in 1991 under Amadou Toumani Touré
- Mauritania in 1978 under Mustafa Ould Salek
- Mauritania in 2005 under Ely Ould Mohamed Vall
- Mauritania in 2008 under Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
- Mexico in 1876 by Porfirio Díaz against Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada
- Mexico in 1911 by Francisco I. Madero against Porfirio Díaz (and Francisco León de la Barra)
- Mexico in 1913 by Victoriano Huerta (and Pedro Lascuráin) against Francisco I. Madero
- Mexico in 1915 by Venustiano Carranza and others against Victoriano Huerta
- Mexico in 1920 by Adolfo de la Huerta against Venustiano Carranza
- Muscat and Oman in 1970 under Qaboos bin Said
- Nicaragua in 1856 under William Walker
- Nicaragua in 1944 by Anastasio Somoza García for Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa against Leonardo Argüello Barreto
- Niger in 1974 by Seyni Kountché against Hamani Diori
- Niger in 1996 under Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara
- Niger in 2010 against Mamadou Tandja
- Nigeria in 1966 under Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu
- Nigeria in 1983 under Muhammadu Buhari
- Nigeria in 1985 under Ibrahim Babangida
- Panama in 1968 by Omar Torrijos against President Arnulfo Arias Madrid
- Pakistan in 1958 by Field Marshal Ayub Khan against Iskander Mirza
- Pakistan in 1977 by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq against Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
- Pakistan in 1999 by General Pervez Musharraf against Nawaz Sharif
- Paraguay in 1989 under Andrés Rodríguez
- Peru in 1914 under Óscar Benavides
- Peru in 1919 under Augusto B. Leguía y Salcedo
- Peru in 1930 under Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro
- Peru in 1948 under Manuel A. Odría
- Peru in 1962 under Ricardo Pérez Godoy
- Peru in 1968 under Juan Velasco Alvarado
- Peru in 1992 under Alberto Fujimori (dissolved Parliament)
- Poland in 1926 under Józef Piłsudski
- Poland in 1981 under Wojciech Jaruzelski
- Portugal in 1926 under Gomes da Costa
- Portugal in 1974 under António de Spínola
Q-V
- Kingdom of Romania in 1938 by King Carol II of Romania against Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and the Iron Guard
- Kingdom of Romania in 1940 by Ion Antonescu against King Carol II of Romania
- Kingdom of Romania in 1944 by King Michael I of Romania and Constantin Sănătescu against Ion Antonescu
- Kingdom of Romania in 1947 by Petru Groza against King Michael I of Romania
- Principality of Romania in 1866 by the "Monstrous Coalition" of Liberals and Conservatives against prince Alexander John Cuza
- Romania in 1989 by the National Salvation Front against Nicolae Ceauşescu
- Russia in 1917 under the Russian Provisional Government against Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
- Rwanda in 1973 under Juvénal Habyarimana
- São Tomé and Príncipe in 1995 under Manuel Quintas de Almeida
- São Tomé and Príncipe in 2003 under Fernando Pereira
- Seychelles in 1977 by France-Albert René against James Mancham
- Seychelles "counter coups" in 1981 by France-Albert René against mercenary "Mad Mike" Hoare and 43 others
- Sierra Leone in 1967 under David Lansana
- Sierra Leone in 1967 under Andrew Juxon-Smith
- Sierra Leone in 1968 under John Amadu Bangura
- Sierra Leone in 1992 under Valentine Strasser
- Sierra Leone in 1996 under Julius Maada Bio
- Sierra Leone in 1997 under Johnny Paul Koroma
- Solomon Islands in 2000 by the Malaitan Eagle Force
- Somalia in 1969 by Muhammad Siad Barre
- Somalia in 1991 by Ali Mahdi Muhammad against Muhammad Siad Barre
- Spain in 1936 by Francisco Franco against Manuel Azaña
- Sudan in 1958 under Ibrahim Abboud
- Sudan in 1969 under Gaafar al-Nimeiry
- Sudan in 1985 under Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab
- Sudan in 1989 under Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir
- Suriname on 25 February 1980 under Dési Bouterse ousting Prime Minister Henck Arron
- Suriname in 13 August 1980 under Dési Bouterse ousting President Johan Ferrier
- Suriname in 1990 under Dési Bouterse
- Sweden in 1772 by Gustav III of Sweden against the Privy Council of Sweden
- Sweden in 1809 by a number of army officers against king Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden
- Syria in 1966 by Salah Jadid against Amin Hafiz
- Syria in 1970 by Hafez al-Assad against Nureddin al-Atassi
- Thailand in 1932 by Field Marshal Phibunsongkhram, Dr. Pridi Phanomyong, Khuang Abhaiwongse, and Prayoon Phamornmontri (members of the People's Party, Khana Ratsadon) against King Prajadhipok (Rama VII)
- Thailand in 2006 by General Sonthi Boonyaratglin against Thaksin Shinawatra
- Togo in 1963 under Étienne Eyadéma
- Transkei in 1987 under Bantu Holomisa
- Tunisia in 1987 under Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
- Turkey in 1960 under the National Unity Committee headed by Cemal Gürsel
- Turkey in 1971 under four Force Commanders of the Turkish Armed Forces
- Turkey in 1980 under Kenan Evren
- Turkey in 1997 under Chief of the General Staff İsmail Hakkı Karadayı and a member of the Turkish General Staff Çevik Bir
- Uganda in 1966 by Milton Obote against King Mutesa II of Buganda
- Uganda in 1971 by Idi Amin against Milton Obote
- Upper Volta in 1966 under Sangoulé Lamizana
- Upper Volta in 1980 under Saye Zerbo
- Upper Volta in 1982 under Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo
- Upper Volta in 1983 under Thomas Sankara
- Uruguay in 1933 under Gabriel Terra
- Uruguay in 1973 by Juan María Bordaberry against his own government
- Venda in 1990 under Gabriel Ramushwana
- Venezuela in 1948 under Carlos Delgado Chalbaud
- South Vietnam in 1963 under Duong Van
W-Z
- Yemen in 1962 under Abdullah as-Sallal
- Yemen Arab Republic in 1974 under Ibrahim al-Hamadi
- Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1941 by King Peter II of Yugoslavia against Regent Prince Paul of Yugoslavia
- Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1945 by Josip Broz Tito against King Peter II of Yugoslavia
- Zanzibar in 1964 under John Okello
