This is a list of the coups d'état (including plots, failed and successful attempts and armed conflicts) that have taken place in

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, during its independent history. The

1973 Chilean coup d'état The 1973 Chilean coup d'état () was a military overthrow of the democratic socialist president of Chile Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity (Chile), Popular Unity coalition government. Allende, who has been described as the first Marxist ...

stands out being the last one as well as one of the most violent and with more far-reaching impact in the history of Chile.

1780s

# Conspiracy of the Tres Antonios, (1781) – A failed attempt to declare

an independent republic

1810s

# Government Junta of Chile, (September 18, 1810) – A successful coup in favor of home rule in Chile # Figueroa mutiny, (April 1, 1811) – A failed attempt to restore royal power in

# September 1811 Chilean coup d'état, (September 4, 1811) – A successful coup in favor of

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1820s

# Campino mutiny, (1827) – A failed attempt to destroy the opposition to the

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# San Fernando mutiny, (June, 1828) of Pedro Urriola, José Antonio Vidaurre and the ''Maipo'' Battalion.Luis Vitale,
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'', Santiago, 2000 # Chilean Civil War of 1829, (1829) – An armed conflict between conservatives and liberals over the constitutional regime.

1830s

# Arauco rebellion, (1831) of Pedro Barnechea and Captain Uriarte # Rebellion of Cazadores de Quechereguas Regiment, (1832) – Under Cap. Eusebio Ruiz # Arteaga Conspiracy, (1833), – of General Zenteno and Coronel Picarte # Cotapos revolution, (1833), – of José Antonio Pérez de Cotapos # Freire expedition, (1836) – An invasion of

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and failed attempt to depose the government # Quillota mutiny, (1837) – A failed attempt to depose the government that resulted in the death of Diego Portales

1850s

# 1851 Chilean Revolution, (1851) – An armed rebellion by liberals against the conservative President

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# 1859 Chilean Revolution, (1859) – A rekindling of the armed rebellion by liberals against the conservative President

started in 1851

1890s

# 1891 Chilean Civil War, (1891) – An

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between forces supporting National Congress and forces that supported President José Manuel Balmaceda # Several Balmacedist plots, (1891–94) – Planned by Hernán Abos-Padilla, Nicanor Donoso, Diego Bahamondes, Luis Leclerc, Herminio Euth, José Domingo Briceño, Edmundo Pinto, Manuel and Emilio Rodríguez, Virgilio Talquino and Anselmo Blanlot against the new government

1910s

# Military League plot, (1912) – A failed plot against President Ramon Barros Luco. In September, Gonzalo Bulnes the appointed leader of the plot, desisted. # Armstrong-Moore plot, (1919) – A failed plot by Generals Guillermo Armstrong and Manuel Moore against President Juan Luis Sanfuentes

1920s

# 1924 Chilean coup d'état, (September 5, 1924) – A successful coup against President

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# 1925 Chilean coup d'état, (January 23, 1925) – A successful coup in which

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and Marmaduke Grove overthrew Luis Altamirano to

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President

to office

1930s

# Little red plane plot, (September 21, 1930) – A failed attempt against President

by Marmaduke Grove # Fall of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, 26 Jule 1931, successful rebellion against Ibañez # Chilean naval mutiny of 1931, (September, 1931) – A rebellion in the

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against Vice-President Manuel Trucco that ended with the fleet being bombed from the air. # Norte Grande insurrection, (December 25, 1931) – A failed Communist push against President Juan Esteban Montero # 1932 Chilean coup d'état, (June 4, 1932) – A successful coup that resulted in the instauration of the Socialist Republic of Chile, in which Marmaduke Grove overthrows Juan Esteban Montero # Antofagasta coup d'état, (September 27, 1932) – A successful coup of General Pedro Vignola that resulted in the resignation of President Bartolomé Blanche and the return to civilian rule # Las Mercedes' plot, (1933) – A failed plot against President

. Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Pedro Vignola called "to resist the Milicia Republicana by any means" # Humberto Videla's plot, (1935) – failed rebellion of NCO's # 1936 plot against Alessandri, (1936) – By René Silva Espejo and Alejandro Lagos # Seguro Obrero massacre, (September 5, 1938) – A failed National Socialist attempt in favor of Carlos Ibáñez that resulted in the murder of 59 young party members # Ariostazo, (August 25, 1939) – A failed attempt of Ariosto Herrera against President

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1940s

# Pig trotters' plot, (1948) – A failed plot against President

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1950s

# Línea Recta affair, (1954) – A failed plot to allow President

to assume dictatorial powers

1970s

# Tanquetazo, (June 29, 1973) – A failed coup against President

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, (September 11, 1973) – A successful coup against President

(resulting in his death), in favor of

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