WebThe American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791. The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), gaining independence from the British Crown and establishing the United …

WebThe Saur Revolution or Sowr Revolution (Pashto: د ثور انقلاب; Dari: إنقلاب ثور), also known as the April Revolution or the April Coup, was staged on 27–28 April 1978 (۷ ثور, lit. '7th Saur ') by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) and overthrew Afghan president Mohammed Daoud Khan, who had himself taken power in the 1973 Afghan coup d'état …

WebThe Bolivarian Revolution is a political process in Venezuela that was led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, the founder of the Fifth Republic Movement and later the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).The Bolivarian Revolution is named after Simón Bolívar, an early 19th-century Venezuelan revolutionary leader, prominent in the Spanish …

WebThe Mexican Revolution (Spanish: Revolución Mexicana) was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from approximately 1910 to 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history". It resulted in the destruction of the Federal Army and its replacement by a revolutionary army, and the transformation of Mexican culture …

WebThe Velvet Revolution (Czech: Sametová Revoluce) or Gentle Revolution (Slovak: Nežná Revolúcia) was a non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia, occurring from 17 November to 29 December 1989.Popular demonstrations against the one-party government of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia included students and older …

WebLa guerra de Afganistán de 1978-1992 (en árabe, الحرب الأفغانية ‎ / en ruso, Афганская война), también llamada invasión soviética de Afganistán, guerra afgano-soviética o guerra ruso-afgana, fue la primera fase del extenso conflicto de la guerra civil afgana. [16] Transcurrió entre abril de 1978 y abril de 1992, tiempo en el que se enfrentaron las fuerzas ...

WebThe 14 July Revolution, also known as the 1958 Iraqi coup d'état, took place on 14 July 1958 in Iraq, and resulted in the overthrow of the Hashemite monarchy in Iraq that had been established by King Faisal I in 1921 under the auspices of the British. King Faisal II, Prince 'Abd al-Ilah, and Prime Minister Nuri al-Said were executed by the military.

WebThe Carnation Revolution (Portuguese: Revolução dos Cravos), also known as the 25 April (Portuguese: 25 de Abril), was a military coup by left-leaning military officers that overthrew the authoritarian Estado Novo regime on 25 April 1974 in Lisbon, producing major social, economic, territorial, demographic, and political changes in Portugal and its …

WebThis article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.The specific problem is: Continue turning the list into a table that indicates whether the revolution/rebellion was successful, and whether its goal was overthrowing the government or forcing policy change or something else. Please help improve this article if you can. (January 2020) (Learn how …

WebThe Romanian Revolution (Romanian: Revoluția Română), also known as the Christmas Revolution (Romanian: Revoluția de Crăciun), was a period of violent civil unrest in Romania during December 1989 as a part of the Revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several countries around the world. The Romanian Revolution started in the city of Timișoara …