| Overthrown by | Year | Person overthrown | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and approximately 60 other conspirators | 44 BCE | Julius Caesar | 89%
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| Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini | 1979 | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | 89%
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| US-led coalition forces | 2003 | Saddam Hussein | 89%
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| Mao Zedong | 1949 | Chiang Kai-shek | 84%
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| The Libyan National Transition Council (backed by NATO) and mass civilian uprisings | 2011 | Muammar Gaddafi | 84%
|
| Ahmed al-Sharaa and the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham front | 2024 | Bashar al-Assad | 74%
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| Emerson Mnangagwa and the Zimbabwe Defence Forces | 2017 | Robert Mugabe | 74%
|
| Ugandan exiles and the Tanzanian Army (led by Julius Nyerere) | 1979 | Idi Amin | 68%
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| French Republican forces led by Georges Danton, Maximilien Robespierre, Jean-Paul Marat, and others | 1792 | Louis XVI | 68%
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| US invasion forces and Panamanian rebels | 1989 | Manuel Noriega | 68%
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| The National Salvation Front and mass Romanian civil disobedience | 1989 | Nicolae Ceaușescu | 68%
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| Fidel Castro | 1959 | Fulgencio Batista | 63%
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| Mengistu Haile Mariam | 1974 | Haile Selassie I | 58%
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| Oliver Cromwell and the Roundhead Army | 1649 | Charles I | 53%
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| The Tatmadaw (the Burmese armed forces) | 2021 | Aung San Suu Kyi | 47%
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| Mass public uprisings, the Muslim Brotherhood, and latterly the Egyptian Army | 2011 | Hosni Mubarak | 47%
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| William the Conqueror | 1066 | Harold Goldwinson | 42%
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| General Augusto Pinochet (backed by the CIA) | 1973 | Salvador Allende | 42%
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| William of Orange (later William III of England) | 1688 | James II | 37%
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| Mass popular Bangladeshi uprisings led by Students Against Discrimination | 2024 | Sheikh Hasina | 37%
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| Colonel Joseph-Désiré Mobutu (backed by the CIA) | 1965 | Patrice Lumumba | 32%
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| The Taliban | 2021 | Ashraf Ghani | 26%
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| David Dacko and French-backed Central African Armed Forces | 1979 | Jean-Bédel Bokassa | 26%
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| Sandinista National Liberation Front insurgents | 1979 | Anastasio Somoza Debayle | 21%
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| The Iranian Army, backed by the CIA and MI6 | 1953 | Mohammed Mossadegh | 21%
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| The Sudanese Armed Forces | 2019 | Omar al-Bashir | 21%
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