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{{short description|Forcible removal of a politician, monarch, or clergyman}}
{{Other uses|Deposition (disambiguation){{!}}Deposition}}
'''Deposition''' by political means concerns the removal of a politician or monarch.<ref name="ed2">[http://www.the-orb.net/textbooks/muhlberger/edwardii.html The Deposition of Edward II, Medieval England, Steven Muhlberger], ORB: The Online Reference for Medieval Studies, 1999</ref> It may be done by [[coup]], [[impeachment]], [[invasion]], or forced [[abdication]].<ref name="rich2">[http://faculty.history.wisc.edu/sommerville/123/123%20164%20richard%20ii%20(2).htm The deposition of Richard II] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212184800/http://faculty.history.wisc.edu/sommerville/123/123%20164%20richard%20ii%20(2).htm |date=2017-02-12 }}, J.P.Sommerville, History Department, University of Wisconsin</ref> The term may also refer to the official removal of a clergyman, especially a [[bishop]], from ecclesiastical office.

== Deposed head of state or government politicians ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Year
!Politician
!Country
!Title
!Type
|-
|81 BCE
|[[Gaius Marius]] and [[Lucius Cornelius Cinna]]
| rowspan="4" |{{Flagicon|Roman Republic}} [[Roman Republic]]
|[[Roman consul|Consuls]]
|[[Sulla's civil war]]
|-
|48 BCE
|[[Pompey]]
|''[[First Triumvirate|Triumvir]]''
|Assassinated by [[Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator]] while attempting to flee to Egypt during [[Caesar's civil war]]
|-
|44 BCE
|[[Julius Caesar]]
|''[[Dictator perpetuo]]''
|[[Assassination of Julius Caesar|Assassinated]] at the beginning of the [[Liberators' civil war]]
|-
|33 BCE
|[[Mark Antony]]
|''[[Second Triumvirate|Triumvir]]''
|[[War of Actium]]
|-
|1659 CE
|[[Richard Cromwell]]
|{{Flagicon|Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland}} [[The Protectorate|Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland]]
|[[Lord Protector]]
|[[Stuart Restoration]]
|-
|1840
|[[Pedro de Araújo Lima, Marquis of Olinda|Pedro de Araújo Lima]]
|{{Flagicon|Empire of Brazil}} [[Empire of Brazil]]
|[[Regent of Brazil]]
|[[Declaration of age of Pedro II|Majority Coup]]
|-
|1841
|[[Bento Gonçalves da Silva]]
|{{Flagicon|Riograndense Republic}} [[Riograndense Republic]]
|President of the [[Riograndense Republic]]
|Imprisonment during the [[Ragamuffin War]]
|-
|1852
|[[Juan Manuel de Rosas]] 
|{{Flagicon|Argentina|1852}} [[Argentine Confederation]]
|17th [[Governor of Buenos Aires Province|Governor]] of [[Buenos Aires Province]], Ruler of Argentina
|Brazilian invasion during the [[Platine War]]
|-
|1861
|[[Sam Houston]] 
|{{Flagicon|Republic of Texas}} [[Texas in the American Civil War|Republic of Texas]]
|[[Governor of Texas]]
|Opposed Texas's secession from the Union and entry into the [[Confederate States of America]] during the [[American Civil War]]
|-
|1863
|[[José Antonio Páez]]
|{{Flagicon|Venezuela|1859}} [[State of Venezuela|Venezuela]]
|5th [[President of Venezuela]]
|
|-
|1865
|[[Jefferson Davis]]
|{{Flagicon|Confederate States of America|1865}} [[Confederate States of America]]
|[[President of the Confederate States of America]]
|[[American Civil War]]
|-
|1871
|[[Mariano Melgarejo]]
|{{Flagicon|Bolivia}} [[History of Bolivia (1809–1920)|Bolivia]]
|15th [[President of Bolivia]]
|
|-
|1900
|[[Luis Gálvez Rodríguez de Arias]]
|{{Flagicon|Republic of Acre}} [[Republic of Acre]]
|President of the [[Republic of Acre]]
|Coup d'état
|-
|1908
|[[Cipriano Castro]]
|{{Flagicon|Venezuela|1905}} [[United States of Venezuela|Venezuela]]
|[[President of Venezuela]]
|[[1908 Venezuelan coup d'état]], removed from office while abroad
|-
|1911
|[[Porfirio Díaz]]
|{{Flagicon|Mexico|1909}} [[Porfiriato|Mexico]]
|33rd [[President of Mexico]]
|[[Mexican Revolution]]
|-
|1917
|[[Alexander Kerensky]]
|{{Flagicon|Russian Republic}} [[Russian Republic]]
|[[Prime Minister of Russia|Minister-President of the Russian Republic]]
|[[October Revolution]]
|-
|1917, 1926
|[[Bernardino Machado]]
|{{Flagicon|Portuguese Republic}} [[First Portuguese Republic|Portugal]]
|Third and eighth [[President of Portugal]]
|Coup d'état by [[Sidónio Pais]]
|-
|1930
|[[Washington Luís]]
| rowspan="2" |{{Flagicon|First Brazilian Republic}} [[Brazil]]
|13th [[President of Brazil]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Brazilian Revolution of 1930]]
|-
|1930
|[[Júlio Prestes]]
|[[President-elect of Brazil]]
|-
|1938
|[[Kurt Schuschnigg]]
|{{Flagicon|Federal State of Austria}} [[Federal State of Austria|Austria]]
|[[Chancellor of Austria]]
|[[Anschluss]]
|-
|1938 
|[[Edvard Beneš]]
|{{Flagicon|Czechoslovakia}} [[Second Czechoslovak Republic|Czechoslovakia]]
|[[President of Czechoslovakia]]
|[[Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945)|Occupation of Czechoslovakia]] 
|-
|1939
|[[Manuel Azaña]]
|{{Flagicon|Spain|1931}} [[Second Spanish Republic|Spain]]
|[[Prime Minister of Spain]]
|[[Spanish Civil War]]
|-
|1940
|[[Paul Reynaud]]
|{{Flagicon|France}} [[French Third Republic]]
|[[Prime Minister of France]]
|[[Battle of France]]
|-
|1940
|[[Konstantin Päts]]
|{{Flagicon|Estonia}} [[History of Estonia (1920–1939)|Estonia]]
|1st [[President of Estonia]]
|[[Soviet occupation of Estonia|Soviet invasion of Estonia]]
|-
|1940
|[[Antanas Smetona]]
|{{Flagicon|Lithuania}} [[History of Lithuania#Independence (1918–1940)|Lithuania]]
|1st [[President of Lithuania]]
|[[Soviet invasion of Lithuania]]
|-
|1940
|[[Kārlis Ulmanis]]
|{{Flagicon|Latvia}} [[History of Latvia#Ulmanis dictatorship, 1934–40|Latvia]]
|4th [[President of Latvia]] (self proclaimed)
|[[Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940|Soviet invasion of Latvia]]
|-
|1944, 1945
|[[Benito Mussolini]]
|{{Flagicon|Italy}} [[Italian Social Republic]]
|[[Duce]]
|[[Italian campaign (World War II)|Italian campaign of World War II]]
|-
|1944
|[[Juan Federico Ponce Vaides]]
|{{Flagicon|Guatemala}} [[History of Guatemala#Jorge Ubico regime (1931–1944)|Guatemala]]
|[[President of Guatemala]]
|[[Guatemalan Revolution]]
|-
|1945 
|[[Karl Dönitz]]
|{{Flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[Nazi Germany]]
|[[President of Germany (1919–1945)|President of Germany]]
|[[World War II]]
|-
|1945
|[[Isaías Medina Angarita]]
|{{Flagicon|Venezuela|1930}} [[United States of Venezuela|Venezuela]]
|[[President of Venezuela]]
|[[1945 Venezuelan coup d'état]]
|-
|1945
|[[Getúlio Vargas]]
|{{Flagicon|Brazil|1945}} [[Vargas Era|Brazil]]
|14th and 17th [[President of Brazil]]
|[[1945 Brazilian coup d'état]]
|-
|1947
|[[Ferenc Nagy]]
|{{Flagicon|Second Hungarian Republic}} [[Second Hungarian Republic|Hungary]]
|40th [[Prime Minister of Hungary]], 1st Prime Minister of the Second Hungarian Republic
|Coup d'état
|-
|1948
|[[Teodoro Picado Michalski]]
|{{Flagicon|Costa Rica}} [[First Costa Rican Republic|Costa Rica]]
|[[President of Costa Rica]]
|[[Costa Rican Civil War]]
|-
|1948
|[[Rómulo Gallegos]]
|{{Flagicon|Venezuela|1930}} [[United States of Venezuela|Venezuela]]
|[[President of Venezuela]]
|[[1948 Venezuelan coup d'état]]
|-
|1953
|[[Mohammad Mosaddegh]]
|{{Flagicon|Imperial State of Iran}} [[Pahlavi Iran|Iran]]
|35th [[Prime Minister of Iran]]
|[[1953 Iranian coup d'état]]
|-
|1954
|[[Jacobo Árbenz]]
|{{Flagicon|Guatemala}} [[History of Guatemala#Presidency of Jacobo Árbenz Guzman (1951–1954)|Guatemala]]
|[[President of Guatemala]]
|[[1954 Guatemalan coup d'état]]
|-
|1955
|[[Carlos Luz]]
| rowspan="2" |{{Flagicon|Brazil}} [[Fourth Brazilian Republic|Brazil]]
| rowspan="2" |[[President of Brazil]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Preventative Coup of November 11]]
|-
|1955
|[[Café Filho]]
|-
|1956
|[[Imre Nagy]]
|{{Flagicon|Hungarian People's Republic}} [[Hungarian People's Republic|Hungary]]
|Chairman of the [[Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic]]
|[[Soviet invasion of Hungary]]
|-
|1956
|[[Bolesław Bierut]]
|{{Flagicon|Poland|1927}} [[Polish People's Republic|Poland]]
|[[Polish United Workers' Party|General Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party]]
|[[Polish October]]
|-
|1958
|[[Marcos Pérez Jiménez]]
|{{Flagicon|Venezuela|1954}} [[Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]]
|Military dictator of Venezuela
|Fled the country during the [[1958 Venezuelan coup d'état]]
|-
|1959
|[[Fulgencio Batista]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Sierra |first=Jerry A. |title=Batista - From Army Sergeant to Dictator |url=http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/batista.htm |access-date=2 May 2016 |publisher=History of Cuba}}</ref>
|{{Flagicon|Cuba|1902}} [[Republic of Cuba (1902–1959)|Cuba]] 
|14th and 17th [[President of Cuba]]
|[[Cuban Revolution]]
|-
|1960
|[[Patrice Lumumba]]
|{{Flagicon|Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)}} [[Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)]]
|1st [[President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo|President of Congo-Leopoldville]]
|[[Congo Crisis]]
|-
|1960
|[[Syngman Rhee]]
|{{Flagicon|South Korea|1948}} [[First Republic of Korea|South Korea]]
|1st [[President of South Korea]] 
|[[April Revolution]]
|-
|1963
|[[Nazim al-Qudsi|Nazem al-Qudsi]]
|{{Flagicon|Syrian Republic}} [[Second Syrian Republic|Syria]]
|[[President of Syria]]
|[[1963 Syrian coup d'état]]
|-
|1963
|[[Juan Bosch (politician)|Juan Bosch]]
|{{Flagicon|Dominican Republic}} [[Third Dominican Republic|Dominican Republic]]
|[[President of the Dominican Republic]]
|[[1963 Dominican coup d'état]]
|-
|1963
|[[Ngo Dinh Diem]]
|{{Flagicon|South Vietnam}} [[South Vietnam]]
|[[President of South Vietnam]]
|[[1963 South Vietnamese coup]]
|-
|1964
|[[Nikita Khrushchev]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Khrushchev Ousted From Top Posts |work=[[The New York Times]] - On This Day, October 14, 1964 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1015.html#article |access-date=9 May 2016}}</ref>
|{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} [[Soviet Union]]
|[[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
|Removed from office
|-
|1964
|[[João Goulart]]
|{{Flagicon|Brazil}} [[Fourth Brazilian Republic|Brazil]]
|24th [[President of Brazil]] 
|[[1964 Brazilian coup d'état]]
|-
|1966
|[[Kwame Nkrumah]]
|{{Flagicon|Ghana}} [[History of Ghana#Independence|Ghana]]
|1st [[President of Ghana]]
|[[1966 Ghanaian coup d'état]]
|-
|1968
|[[Alexander Dubček]]
|{{Flagicon|Czechoslovakia}} [[Czechoslovak Socialist Republic|Czechoslovakia]]
|[[First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia]]
|[[Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia]]
|-
|1969
|[[Pedro Aleixo]]
|{{Flagicon|Brazil}} [[Brazil]]
|[[President-designate of Brazil]]
|Removed from the office by the [[Brazilian military junta of 1969|Brazilian Military Junta of 1969]]
|-
|1973
|[[Eric Gairy]]
|{{Flagicon|Grenada}} [[Grenada]]
|[[Premier of Grenada]]
|
|-
|1974
|[[Américo Tomás]]
|{{Flagicon|Portugal}} [[Estado Novo (Portugal)|Portugal]]
|[[President of Portugal]]
|[[Carnation Revolution]]
|-
|1974
|[[Richard Nixon]]
|{{Flagicon|United States}} [[United States]]
|37th [[President of the United States]]
|Resigned to avoid removal from office by [[Impeachment process against Richard Nixon|impeachment process]] after the [[Watergate scandal]]
|-
|1975
|[[Gough Whitlam]]
|{{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Australia]]
|21st [[Prime Minister of Australia]]
|[[1975 Australian constitutional crisis]]
|-
|1975
|[[Nguyễn Văn Thiệu]]
|{{Flagicon|South Vietnam}} [[South Vietnam]]
|[[President of South Vietnam]]
|[[1975 spring offensive]]
|-
|1978
|[[Mohammed Daoud Khan]]
|{{Flagicon|Republic of Afghanistan (1973–1978)}} [[Republic of Afghanistan (1973–1978)|Afghanistan]]
|1st [[President of Afghanistan]] 
|[[Saur Revolution]]
|-
|1979
|[[Idi Amin]]<ref>{{cite news |date=10 April 2009 |title=Head to Head: Toppling of Idi Amin |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7992195.stm |access-date=7 May 2016}}</ref>
|{{Flagicon|Uganda}} [[Second Republic of Uganda|Uganda]]
|3rd [[President of Uganda]]
|[[Uganda–Tanzania War]]
|-
|1979
|[[Anastasio Somoza Debayle]]
|{{Flagicon|Nicaragua}} [[Somoza family|Nicaragua]]
|[[President of Nicaragua]]
|[[Nicaraguan Revolution]]
|-
|1979 
|[[Pol Pot]]
|{{Flagicon|Democratic Kampuchea}} [[Democratic Kampuchea]]
|[[General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea]]
|[[Cambodian–Vietnamese War]]
|-
|1979
|[[Ian Smith]]
|{{Flagicon|Rhodesia}} [[Rhodesia]]
|[[Prime Minister of Rhodesia]]
|[[Rhodesian Bush War]]
|-
|1979
|[[Park Chung Hee]]
|{{Flagicon|South Korea}} [[Fourth Republic of Korea|South Korea]]
|3rd [[President of South Korea]]
|[[Assassination of Park Chung-hee|Assassinated]] by [[Korean Central Intelligence Agency]] Director [[Kim Jae-gyu]]
|-
|1979
|[[Hafizullah Amin]]
|{{Flagicon|Afghanistan|1978}} [[Democratic Republic of Afghanistan|Afghanistan]]
|[[General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan]]
|[[Operation Storm-333]]
|-
|1982
|[[Bachir Gemayel]]
|{{Flagicon|Lebanon}} [[Lebanon]]
|[[President of Lebanon|President-elect of Lebanon]]
|[[Lebanese Civil War]]
|-
|1983
|[[Hudson Austin]]
|{{Flagicon|Grenada}} [[People's Revolutionary Government|Grenada]]
|[[List of heads of state of Grenada|Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of Grenada]]
|[[United States invasion of Grenada]]
|-
|1986
|[[Jean-Claude Duvalier]]
|{{Flagicon|Haiti|1964}} [[Duvalier dynasty|Haiti]]
|35th [[President of Haiti]]
|[[Anti-Duvalier protest movement]]
|-
|1986
|[[Ferdinand Marcos]]<ref>{{cite web |title=The Downfall of Marcos |url=http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1986/mar-apr/hill.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231193912/http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1986/mar-apr/hill.html |archive-date=31 December 2016 |access-date=30 April 2016 |publisher=H Monte Hill, Air University}}</ref>
|{{Flagicon|Philippines|1985}} [[History of the Philippines (1965–1986)|Philippines]]
|10th [[President of the Philippines]]
|[[People Power Revolution]]
|-
|1987
|[[Habib Bourguiba]]
|{{Flagicon|Tunisia}} [[Tunisia]]
|First [[President of Tunisia]]
|[[1987 Tunisian coup d'état]]
|-
|1987
|[[Thomas Sankara]]
|{{Flagicon|Burkina Faso}} [[Burkina Faso]]
|[[President of Burkina Faso]]
|[[1987 Burkina Faso coup d'état]]
|-
|1987
|[[Chun Doo-hwan]]
|{{Flagicon|South Korea|1987}} [[Fifth Republic of Korea|South Korea]]
|5th [[President of South Korea]] 
|[[June Democratic Struggle]]
|-
|1988
|[[Ne Win]]
|{{Flagicon|Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma}} [[Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma|Burma]]
|[[President of Burma]]
|[[8888 Uprising]]
|-
|1989
|[[Alfredo Stroessner]]<ref>[http://www.rightlivelihood.org/fileadmin/Files/PDF/Press_releases/2014/English/140130_PR_EN_25ydemocracyparaguay.pdf 25 Years after the Fall of Alfredo Stroessner] Right Livelihood.</ref>
|{{Flagicon|Paraguay}} [[El Stronato|Paraguay]]
|42nd [[President of Paraguay]]
|[[1989 Paraguayan coup d'état]]
|-
|1989
|[[Erich Honecker]]<ref>{{cite news |date=1989-10-18 |title=East Germany Leader Ousted |work=BBC News - On This Day (18 October) |publisher=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/18/newsid_2450000/2450783.stm |access-date=29 April 2016}}</ref>
|{{Flagicon|East Germany}} [[East Germany]]
|[[General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany]] (effective leader of East Germany)
|[[Peaceful Revolution]]
|-
|1989
|[[Miloš Jakeš]]
|{{Flagicon|Czechoslovakia}} [[Czechoslovak Socialist Republic|Czechoslovakia]]
|[[General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia]]
|[[Velvet Revolution]]
|-
|1989
|[[Wojciech Jaruzelski]]
|{{Flagicon|Poland}} [[Polish People's Republic|Poland]]
|[[President of Poland]] & [[First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party]]
|[[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity Movement]]
|-
|1989
|[[Todor Zhivkov]]<ref>{{cite news |date=28 November 1990 |title=Evolution in Europe: Bulgarian Communist stalwart says he'd do it all differently |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/28/world/evolution-in-europe-bulgarian-communist-stalwart-says-he-d-do-it-all-differently.html |access-date=2 May 2016}}</ref>
|{{Flagicon|Bulgaria|1988}}[[People's Republic of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]]
|[[General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party]]
|[[Revolutions of 1989]]
|-
|1989
|[[Károly Grósz]]
|{{Flagicon|Hungary}} [[Hungarian People's Republic|Hungary]]
|[[General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party]]
|[[End of communism in Hungary]]
|-
|1989
|[[Manuel Noriega]]<ref>{{cite news |date=1989-12-20 |title=US Forces Oust General Noriega |work=BBC News - On This Day (20 December) |publisher=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/20/newsid_4054000/4054951.stm |access-date=11 May 2016}}</ref>
|{{Flagicon|Panama}} [[Panama]]
|Military dictator of Panama from 1983 to 1989
|[[United States invasion of Panama]]
|-
|1989
|[[Nicolae Ceaușescu]]<ref>{{cite web |date=15 January 2011 |title=The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu |url=https://theseventhart.info/tag/the-autobiography-of-nicolae-ceausescu-review/ |access-date=29 April 2016 |publisher=The Seventh Art}}</ref>
|{{Flagicon|Romania|1988}} [[Socialist Republic of Romania|Romania]]
|[[President of Romania]]
|[[Romanian Revolution]]
|-
|1990
|[[Hissène Habré]]
|{{Flagicon|Chad}} [[Chad]]
|5th [[President of Chad]]
|[[1990 Chadian coup d'état]]
|-
|1991
|[[Siad Barre]]
|{{Flagicon|Somalia}} [[Somali Democratic Republic|Somalia]]
|3rd [[President of Somalia]]
|[[Somali Rebellion]]
|-
|1991
|[[Mengistu Haile Mariam]]
|{{Flagicon|Ethiopia|1987}} [[People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia|Ethiopia]]
|First [[President of Ethiopia]]
|Forced to flee when the [[Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front]] began winning the [[Ethiopian Civil War]]
|-
|1991
|[[Mikhail Gorbachev]]
|{{Flagicon|Soviet Union}} [[Soviet Union]]
|1st [[President of the Soviet Union]]
|[[Dissolution of the Soviet Union]]
|-
|1991
|[[Jean-Bertrand Aristide]]
|{{Flagicon|Haiti}} [[Haiti]]
|39th [[President of Haiti]]
|[[1991 Haitian coup d'état]]
|-
|1992
|[[Mohammad Najibullah]]
|{{Flagicon|Afghanistan|1987}} [[Democratic Republic of Afghanistan|Afghanistan]]
|2nd [[President of Afghanistan]]
|[[Afghan Civil War (1989–1992)|Afghan Civil War]]
|-
|1992
|[[Joseph Saidu Momoh]]
|{{Flagicon|Sierra Leone}} [[Sierra Leone]]
|2nd [[President of Sierra Leone]]
|[[Sierra Leone Civil War]]
|-
|1992
|[[Fernando Collor de Mello]]
|{{Flagicon|Brazil}} [[Brazil]]
|32nd [[President of Brazil]]
|Impeachment and resignation
|-
|1993
|[[Carlos Andrés Pérez]]
|{{Flagicon|Venezuela|1954}} [[Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]]
|40th [[President of Venezuela]]
|Impeachment
|-
|1993, 1999
|[[Nawaz Sharif]]
|{{Flagicon|Pakistan}} [[Pakistan]]
|12th and 14th [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]]
|[[1999 Pakistani coup d'état]]
|-
|1994
|[[Juvénal Habyarimana]]
|{{Flagicon|Rwanda|1962}} [[Rwanda]]
|2nd [[President of Rwanda]]
|[[Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira|Assassinated]] by an unknown force before the [[Arusha Accords (Rwanda)|Arusha Accords]] ending the [[Rwandan Civil War]] went into effect
|-
|1997
|[[Mobutu Sese Seko]]
|{{Flagicon|Zaire}} [[Zaire]]
|[[President of Zaire]]
|[[First Congo War]]
|-
|1998
|[[Suharto]]
|{{Flagicon|Indonesia}} [[New Order (Indonesia)|Indonesia]]
|2nd [[President of Indonesia]]
|[[Indonesian Revolution of 1998]]
|-
|1999
|[[João Bernardo Vieira]]
|{{Flagicon|Guinea-Bissau}} [[Guinea-Bissau]]
|2nd [[President of Guinea-Bissau]]
|[[Guinea-Bissau Civil War]]
|-
|2000
|[[Slobodan Milošević]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Milošević's Yugoslavia - Downfall |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/europe/2000/milosevic_yugoslavia/downfall.stm |access-date=29 April 2016}}</ref>
|{{Flagicon|Serbia and Montenegro|1992}} [[Serbia and Montenegro|Yugoslavia]]
|3rd [[President of Serbia and Montenegro|President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]]
|[[Overthrow of Slobodan Milošević]]
|-
|2001
|[[Laurent-Désiré Kabila]]
|{{Flagicon|Democratic Republic of the Congo}} [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]
|3rd [[President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo]]
|[[Second Congo War]]
|-
|2001
|[[Joseph Estrada]]
|{{Flagicon|Philippines}} [[Philippines]]
|14th [[President of the Philippines]]
|[[Second EDSA Revolution]]
|-
|2001
|[[Mullah Omar]]
|{{Flagicon|Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan}} [[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001)|Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan]]
|[[Leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan]]
|[[United States invasion of Afghanistan]]
|-
|2002
|[[Hugo Chávez]]
|{{Flagicon|Venezuela|1954}} [[Venezuela]]
|[[President of Venezuela]]
|Reportedly resigned before the [[2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt]]
|-
|2003
|[[Saddam Hussein]]
|{{Flagicon|Iraq|1991}} [[Ba'athist Iraq|Iraq]]
|5th [[President of Iraq]]
|[[Iraq War]]
|-
|2003
|[[Charles Taylor (Liberian politician)|Charles Taylor]]<ref>{{cite web |title=President Charles Ghankay Taylor, 1997-2003 |url=http://www.liberiapastandpresent.org/charles_taylor.htm |access-date=2 May 2016 |publisher=Liberia Past and Present}}</ref>
|{{Flagicon|Liberia}} [[Liberia]]
|22nd [[President of Liberia]]
|[[Second Liberian Civil War]]
|-
|2003
|[[Eduard Shevardnadze]]
|{{Flagicon|Georgia|1991}} [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]
|1st [[President of Georgia]]
|[[Rose Revolution]]
|-
|2004
|[[Rolandas Paksas]] 
|{{Flagicon|Lithuania}} [[Lithuania]]
|3rd [[President of Lithuania]]
|Impeachment
|-
|2005
|[[Lucio Gutiérrez]] 
|{{Flagicon|Ecuador}} [[Ecuador]]
|43rd [[President of Ecuador]]
|Removed from office
|-
|2010
|[[Askar Akayev]]
|{{Flagicon|Kyrgyzstan}} [[Kyrgyzstan]]
|1st [[President of Kyrgyzstan]]
|[[Tulip Revolution]]
|-
|2006
|[[Thaksin Shinawatra]] 
|{{Flagicon|Thailand}} [[Thailand]]
|31st [[Prime Minister of Thailand]]
|[[2006 Thai coup d'état]]
|-
|2009
|[[Marc Ravalomanana]]
|{{Flagicon|Madagascar}} [[Madagascar]]
|5th [[President of Madagascar]]
|[[2009 Malagasy political crisis]]
|-
|2009
|[[Manuel Zelaya]] 
|{{Flagicon|Honduras|2009}} [[Honduras]]
|52nd [[President of Honduras]]
|[[2009 Honduran coup d'état]]
|-
|2010
|[[Kurmanbek Bakiyev]]
|{{Flagicon|Kyrgyzstan}} [[Kyrgyzstan]]
|2nd [[President of Kyrgyzstan]]
|[[Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010]]
|-
|2011
|[[Zine El Abidine Ben Ali]]<ref>{{cite web |date=17 December 2015 |title=Tunisia: The fall of Ben Ali |url=http://www.al-bab.com/arab/countries/tunisia/tunisia_fall_of_ben_ali.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160525045026/http://al-bab.com/arab/countries/tunisia/tunisia_fall_of_ben_ali.htm |archive-date=25 May 2016 |access-date=29 April 2016 |publisher=Al-Bab}}</ref>
|{{Flagicon|Tunisia}} [[Tunisia]]
|2nd [[President of Tunisia]]
|[[Tunisian Revolution]]
|-
|2011
|[[Hosni Mubarak]]<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Egypt's Last Pharaoh? The rise and fall of Hosni Mubarak |url=http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2045328_2045338_2048689,00.html |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=30 April 2016}}</ref> 
|{{Flagicon|Egypt}} [[Egypt]]
|4th [[President of Egypt]]
|[[2011 Egyptian revolution]]
|-
|2011
|[[Muammar Gaddafi]] 
|{{Flagicon|Libya|1977}} [[History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi|Libya]]
|[[Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution|Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution of Libya]]
|[[First Libyan Civil War]]
|-
|2011
|[[Ali Abdullah Saleh]]
|{{Flagicon|Yemen}} [[Yemen]]
|1st [[President of Yemen]]
|[[Yemeni Revolution]]
|-
|2013
|[[Mohamed Morsi]] 
|{{Flagicon|Egypt}} [[Egypt]]
|5th President of Egypt
|[[2013 Egyptian coup d'état]]
|-
|2014
|[[Viktor Yanukovych]] 
|{{Flagicon|Ukraine}} [[Ukraine]]
|4th [[President of Ukraine]]
|[[Revolution of Dignity]]
|-
|2014
|[[Yingluck Shinawatra]] 
|{{Flagicon|Thailand}} [[Thailand]]
|28th Prime Minister of Thailand
|[[2014 Thai coup d'état]]
|-
|2016
|[[Dilma Rousseff]] 
|{{Flagicon|Brazil}} [[Brazil]]
|36th [[President of Brazil]]
|[[Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff]]
|-
|2017
|[[Park Geun-hye]] 
|{{Flagicon|South Korea}} [[South Korea]]
|11th [[President of South Korea]]
|[[Impeachment of Park Geun-hye]]
|-
|2017
|[[Robert Mugabe]] 
|{{Flagicon|Zimbabwe}} [[Zimbabwe]]
|2nd [[President of Zimbabwe]]
|[[2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état]]
|-
|2017
|[[Yahya Jammeh]]
|{{Flagicon|The Gambia}} [[The Gambia]]
|2nd [[President of the Gambia]]
|[[2016–2017 Gambian constitutional crisis]]
|-
|2018
|[[Serzh Sargsyan]]
|{{Flagicon|Armenia}} [[Armenia]]
|3rd [[President of Armenia]]
|[[2018 Armenian revolution]]
|-
|2019
|[[Abdelaziz Bouteflika]]<ref>{{cite news |date=3 April 2019 |title=Abdelaziz Bouteflika: Algerian leader resigns amid protests |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47795108 |access-date=12 April 2019}}</ref>
|{{Flagicon|Algeria}} [[Algeria]]
|7th [[President of Algeria]]
|[[2019 Algerian protests]]
|-
|2019
|[[Omar al-Bashir]]<ref>{{cite news |date=12 April 2019 |title=Sudan coup: Protesters defy curfew after military ousts Bashir |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47903332 |access-date=12 April 2019}}</ref> 
|{{Flagicon|Sudan}} [[Republic of the Sudan (1985–2019)|Sudan]]
|7th [[President of Sudan]]
|[[2019 Sudanese coup d'état]]
|-
|2021 
|[[Ashraf Ghani]]
|{{Flagicon|Afghanistan|2013}} [[Islamic Republic of Afghanistan|Afghanistan]]
|5th [[President of Afghanistan]]
|[[2021 Taliban offensive]]
|-
|2021
|[[Aung San Suu Kyi]]
|{{Flagicon|Myanmar}} [[Myanmar]]
|[[State Counsellor of Myanmar]]
|[[2021 Myanmar coup d'état]]
|-
|2022
|[[Gotabaya Rajapaksa]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Sri Lanka leader flees as protesters storm home |publisher=France 24 |agency=AFP |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220709-sri-lanka-leader-flees-as-protesters-storm-home |access-date=9 July 2022}}</ref>
|{{Flagicon|Sri Lanka}} [[Sri Lanka]]
|8th [[President of Sri Lanka]]
|[[2022 Sri Lankan political crisis]]
|-
|2022
|[[Imran Khan]]
|{{Flagicon|Pakistan}} [[Pakistan]]
|22nd [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]]
|[[2022 Pakistani constitutional crisis]]
|-
|2022
|[[Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba]]
|{{Flagicon|Burkina Faso}} [[Burkina Faso]]
|Interim [[President of Burkina Faso]]
|[[September 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état]]
|-
|2022
|[[Pedro Castillo]]
|{{Flagicon|Peru}} [[Peru]]
|63rd [[President of Peru]]
|[[2022 Peruvian self-coup d'état attempt]]
|-
|2023
|[[Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou]]
|{{Flagicon|Niger}} [[Niger]]
|15th [[Prime Minister of Niger]]
|[[2023 Nigerien coup d'état]]
|-
|2023
|[[Ali Bongo Ondimba]]
|{{Flagicon|Gabon}} [[Gabon]]
|3rd [[President of Gabon]]
|[[2023 Gabonese coup d'état]]
|-
|2024
|[[Sheikh Hasina]]
|{{Flagicon|Bangladesh}} [[Bangladesh]]
|10th [[Prime Minister of Bangladesh]]
|[[2024 Non-cooperation movement]]
|}

==Deposed head of state or government monarchs==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Year
!Monarch
!Country
!Title
!Type
|-
|587 BCE
|[[Zedekiah]]
|[[Kingdom of Judah]]
|[[Kings of Judah|King of Judah]]
|[[Siege of Jerusalem (587 BC)|Fall of Jerusalem]]
|-
|539 BCE
|[[Nabonidus]]
|[[Neo-Babylonian Empire]]
|[[Neo-Babylonian Empire|King of the Neo-Babylonian Empire]]
|[[Fall of Babylon]]
|-
|331 BCE
|[[Darius III]]
|{{Flagu|Achaemenid Empire}}
|[[King of Kings]]
|[[Battle of Gaugamela]]
|-
|320 BCE
|[[Perdiccas]]
|[[Macedonian Empire]]
|Regent of Macedonia 
|[[First War of the Diadochi]]
|-
|207 BCE
|[[Qin Er Shi]]
|[[Qin dynasty]]
|[[Emperor of China]]
|[[Fall of the Qin]]
|-
|316 BCE
|[[Olympias]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|Macedonia]]
|Queen of Macedonia
|[[Second War of the Diadochi]]
|-
|310 BCE
|[[Alexander IV of Macedon]] and [[Roxana]]
|King and Queen of Macedon
|Assassinated by [[Cassander]] during the [[Third War of the Diadochi]]
|-
|168 BCE
|[[Perseus of Macedon]]
|[[Basileus]] of Macedonia
|[[Third Macedonian War]]
|-
|63 BCE
|[[Mithridates IV of Pontus]]
|[[Kingdom of Pontus]]
|King of Pontus
|[[Third Mithridatic War]]
|-
|47 BCE
|[[Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt]] 
|[[Pharaoh of Egypt]]
|[[Alexandrian war]] 
|-
|30 BCE
|[[Cleopatra]]
|Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt
|[[War of Actium]]
|-
|41 CE
|[[Caligula]]
| rowspan="10" |{{Flagicon|Roman Empire}} [[Roman Empire]]
| rowspan="10" |[[Roman emperor]]
|Assassinated by the [[Praetorian Guard]] and the [[Roman Senate]] in favor of his uncle [[Claudius]] and attempted abolition of the [[Principate]]
|-
|68 
|[[Nero]]
|Outlawed and killed during rebellion by [[Gaius Julius Vindex]]
|-
|69
|[[Galba]]
|Assassinated by the [[Praetorian Guard]] during the [[Year of the Four Emperors]]
|-
|69
|[[Otho]]
|Defeated by [[Vitellius]] at the [[Battle of Bedriacum|First Battle of Bedriacum]]
|-
|69
|[[Vitellius]]
|Defeated by [[Vespasian]] at the [[Second Battle of Bedriacum]]
|-
|193
|[[Commodus]]
|Assassinated at the beginning of the [[Year of the Five Emperors]]
|-
|193
|[[Pertinax]]
|Assassinated by the [[Praetorian Guard]] during the [[Year of the Five Emperors]]
|-
|193
|[[Didius Julianus]]
|Assassinated in revolt by [[Septimius Severus]] during the [[Year of the Five Emperors]]
|-
|193
|[[Pescennius Niger]]
|Killed by the [[Imperial Roman army]] while retreating from [[Antioch]]
|-
|197
|[[Clodius Albinus]]
|Claim to the emperorship defeated during the [[Year of the Five Emperors]], decisively defeated at the [[Battle of Lugdunum]]
|-
|220
|[[Emperor Xian of Han]]
|[[Han dynasty]]
|[[Emperor of China]]
|[[End of the Han dynasty]]
|-
|235
|[[Severus Alexander]]
| rowspan="3" |{{Flagicon|Roman Empire}} [[Roman Empire]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Roman emperor]]
|Assassinated by the [[Imperial Roman army]] at the beginning of the [[Crisis of the Third Century]]
|-
|238
|[[Maximinus Thrax]]
|Assassinated by the ''[[Legio II Parthica]]'' during the [[Siege of Aquileia|siege of Aquilea]]
|-
|238
|[[Gordian I]]
|Committed suicide after defeat of his forces at the [[Battle of Carthage (238)|Battle of Carthage]]
|-
|238
|[[Gordian II]]
| rowspan="3" |{{Flagicon|Roman Empire}} [[Roman Empire]]
|[[Co-emperor]]
|Killed at the [[Battle of Carthage (238)|Battle of Carthage]]
|-
|238
|[[Pupienus]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Roman emperor]]
|Assassinated by Balbinus during the [[Year of the Six Emperors]]
|-
|238
|[[Balbinus]]
|Assassinated by the [[Praetorian Guard]] during the [[Year of the Six Emperors]]
|-
|249
|[[Cao Shuang]]
|[[Cao Wei]]
|[[Cao Wei|Regent of Cao Wei]]
|[[Incident at the Gaoping Tombs]]
|-
|251
|[[Decius]] and [[Herennius Etruscus]]
| rowspan="5" |{{Flagicon|Roman Empire}} [[Roman Empire]]
|[[Roman emperor]]s
|[[Gothic War (248–253)|Gothic War]]
|-
|260
|[[Valerian I]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Roman emperor]]
|[[Battle of Edessa]]
|-
|307
|[[Severus II]]
|[[Civil wars of the Tetrarchy]]
|-
|312
|[[Maxentius]]
|[[Battle of the Milvian Bridge]]
|-
|324
|[[Valens]]
|[[Eastern Roman emperor]]
|[[Battle of Adrianople]]
|-
|475
|[[Julius Nepos]]
| rowspan="2" |{{Flagicon|Western Roman Empire}} [[Western Roman Empire]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Western Roman emperor]]
|Defeated in rebellion by [[Orestes (father of Romulus Augustulus)|Orestes]]
|-
|476
|[[Romulus Augustulus]]
|[[Fall of the Western Roman Empire]]
|-
|493
|[[Odoacer]]
|[[Kingdom of Italy (476-493)|Kingdom of Italy]]
|King of Italy
|Killed by [[Theodoric the Great]] during the [[Ostrogothic Kingdom|Ostrogothic]] conquest of Italy
|-
|626
|[[Emperor Gaozong of Tang]]
|[[Tang dynasty]]
|[[Emperor of China]]
|[[Xuanwu Gate Incident]]
|-
|628
|[[Khosrow II]]
|{{Flagicon|Sasanian Empire}} [[Sasanian Empire]]
|[[King of Kings]]
|[[Sasanian civil war of 628–632]]
|-
|649
|[[Emperor Taizong of Tang]]
|[[Tang dynasty]]
|[[Emperor of China]]
|[[Transition from Sui to Tang]]
|-
|652
|[[Yazdegerd III]]
|{{Flagicon|Sasanian Empire}} [[Sasanian Empire]]
|[[King of Kings]]
|[[Muslim conquest of Persia]]
|-
|695
|[[Justinian II]]
|{{Flagicon|Roman Empire}} [[Roman Empire]]
|[[Roman Emperor]]
|[[Justinian II]]
|-
|705
|[[Wu Zetian]]
|[[Zhou dynasty]]
|[[Empress of China]]
|Coup d'état by [[Emperor Zhongzong of Tang]]
|-
|960
|[[Guo Zongxun]]
|[[Later Zhou dynasty]]
|[[Emperor of China]]
|Coup at Chen Bridge
|-
|1013
|[[Æthelred the Unready]]
|{{Flagicon|England}} [[England]]
|[[King of England]]
|Overthrown by Danish invasion
|-
|1126
|[[Emperor Qinzong]]
|[[Song dynasty|Northern Song dynasty]]
|[[Emperor of China]]
|[[Jingkang incident]]
|-
|1167
|[[Diarmaid mac Murchadha]]
|[[Kingdom of Leinster]]
|[[King of Leinster]]
|Deposed by the Irish High King [[Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair]] for allegations that he had kidnapped [[Derbforgaill ingen Maeleachlainn]]
|-
|1206
|[[Alexios IV Angelos]] and [[Alexios V Doukas]]
|{{Flagicon|Byzantine Empire}} [[Byzantine Empire]]
|[[Eastern Roman emperor]]
|[[Fourth Crusade]]
|-
|1248
|[[Sancho II of Portugal]]
|{{Flagicon|Kingdom of Portugal|variant=1185}} [[Kingdom of Portugal]]
|[[King of Portugal]]
|Deposed by [[Pope Innocent IV]] in the bull ''[[Grandi non immerito]]''
|-
|1279
|[[Zhao Bing]]
|[[Southern Song dynasty]]
|[[Emperor of China]]
|[[Mongol conquest of China]]
|-
|1298
|[[Adolf, King of the Romans]]
|{{Flagicon|Holy Roman Empire}} [[Holy Roman Empire]]
|[[King of the Romans]]
|Deposed by prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire
|-
|1327
|[[Edward II of England]]<ref name="ed2" />
|{{Flagicon|England}} [[England]]
|[[King of England]]
|Forced to abdicate by [[Parliament of 1327]]
|-
|1370
|[[Toghon Temür]]
|[[Yuan dynasty]]
|[[Emperor of China]] 
|[[Red Turban Rebellions]]
|-
|1399
|[[Richard II of England]]<ref name="rich2" />
|{{Flagicon|England}} [[England]]
|[[King of England]]
|Invasion of England by [[Henry Bolingbroke]]
|-
|1400
|[[Wenceslaus, King of the Romans]]
|{{Flagicon|Holy Roman Empire}} [[Holy Roman Empire]]
|[[King of the Romans]]
|Deposed by [[Sigismund of Luxembourg]] in favor of [[Rupert III]]
|-
|1453
|[[Constantine XI Palaiologos]]
|{{Flagicon|Byzantine Empire}} [[Byzantine Empire]]
|[[Eastern Roman emperor]]
|[[Fall of Constantinople]], conquest of the former [[Byzantine Empire]] by the [[Ottoman Empire]] 
|-
|1461
|[[Henry VI of England]]
| rowspan="3" |{{Flagicon|England}} [[England]]
| rowspan="3" |[[King of England]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Wars of the Roses]]
|-
|1470
|[[Edward IV of England]]
|-
|1483
|[[Edward V of England]]
|[[Princes in the Tower|Abducted to the Tower of London]] during the [[Wars of the Roses]]
|-
|1532
|[[Huáscar]]
| rowspan="2" |{{Flagicon|Inca Empire}} [[Inca Empire]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Sapa Inca]]
|[[Inca Civil War]]
|-
|1533
|[[Atahualpa]]
|[[Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire]]
|-
|1567
|[[Mary, Queen of Scots]]
|{{Flagicon|Kingdom of Scotland}} [[Kingdom of Scotland]]
|[[Queen of Scotland]]
|
|-
|1572
|[[Túpac Amaru]]
|{{Flagicon|Neo-Inca State}} [[Neo-Inca State]]
|[[Sapa Inca]]
|
|-
|1623
|[[Gwanghaegun of Joseon]]
|{{Flagicon image|Flag of Korea (1856).svg}} [[Joseon]]
|[[Korean Emperor]]
|Overthrown by the Westerner faction in favor of [[Injo of Joseon]]
|-
|1640
|[[Philip III of Portugal]]
|{{Flagicon|Kingdom of Portugal|variant=1578}} [[Kingdom of Portugal]]
[[File:Flag of the Kingdom of the Algarve.svg|frameless|23x23px]] [[Kingdom of the Algarve]]
|[[King of Portugal]]
[[King of the Algarve]]
|[[Portuguese Restoration War]]
|-
|1644
|[[Chongzhen Emperor]]
|[[Ming dynasty]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Emperor of China]]
|[[Late Ming peasant rebellions]]
|-
|1645
|[[Li Zicheng]]
|[[Shun dynasty]]
|[[Transition from Ming to Qing]]
|-
|1649
|[[Charles I of England]]
|{{Flagicon|England}} [[England]]
{{Flagicon|Kingdom of Scotland}} [[Kingdom of Scotland]]
|[[King of England]]
[[King of Scotland]][[King of Ireland]]
|[[English Civil War]]
|-
|1688
|[[James II of England]]
|{{Flagicon|England}} [[England]]
{{Flagicon|Kingdom of Scotland}} [[Kingdom of Scotland]]

{{Flagicon|Kingdom of Ireland|variant=1542}} [[Kingdom of Ireland]]
|[[King of England]]
[[King of Scotland]][[King of Ireland]]
|[[Glorious Revolution]]
|-
|1695
|[[Zumbi dos Palmares]]
|[[Palmares (quilombo)|Palmares]]
|King of Palmares
|
|-
|1735
|[[Stanisław Leszczyński]]
|{{Flagicon|Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth}} [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]]
|[[King of Poland]] and [[Grand Duke of Lithuania]]
|[[War of the Polish Succession]]
|-
|1790
|[[Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen|Maria Christina]] and [[Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen|Albert Casimir]]
|{{Flagicon image|Austrian Low Countries Flag.svg}} [[Austrian Netherlands]]
|[[List of governors of the Habsburg Netherlands|Governor of the Austrian Netherlands]]
|[[Brabant Revolution]]
|-
|1792
|[[Louis XVI]]
|{{Flagicon|Kingdom of France|variant=1793}} [[Kingdom of France]]
|[[King of France]]
|[[French Revolution]]
|-
|1795
|[[Stanisław August Poniatowski]]
|{{Flagicon|Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth}} [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]]
|[[King of Poland]] and [[Grand Duke of Lithuania]]
|[[Third Partition of Poland]]
|-
|1806
|[[Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor|Francis II]]
|{{Flagicon|Holy Roman Empire}} [[Holy Roman Empire]]
|[[Holy Roman Emperor]]
|[[Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire]] at the end of the [[War of the Third Coalition]], remained [[Emperor of Austria]]
|-
|1807
|[[Selim III]]
| rowspan="2" |{{Flagicon|Ottoman Empire|variant=}} [[Ottoman Empire]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Sultan of the Ottoman Empire]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Ottoman coups of 1807–1808]]
|-
|1808
|[[Mustafa IV]]
|-
|1809
|[[Gustav IV Adolf]]
|[[File:Naval Ensign of Sweden.svg|frameless|23x23px]] [[Sweden]]
[[File:Naval Ensign of Sweden.svg|frameless|23x23px]] [[Finland under Swedish rule|Finland]]
|[[King of Sweden]]
[[Finland under Swedish rule|Grand Prince of Finland]]
|[[Finnish War]] and [[Coup of 1809]]
|-
|1810
|[[Ferdinand VII of Spain]]
|{{Flagicon|Spanish Empire|variant=}} [[Spanish Empire]]
|[[Monarchy of Spain|King of Spain and the Indies]]
|Forced to abdicate by Napoleon at the beginning of the [[Peninsular War]], which also led to the [[Spanish American wars of independence]] in which Spain lost most of its colonies
|-
|1814
|[[Christian Frederick]]
|{{Flagicon|Denmark-Norway|variant=}} [[Denmark–Norway|Denmark-Norway]]
|[[Kingdom of Norway (1814)|King of Norway]]
|[[Swedish–Norwegian War (1814)]]
|-
|1814-15
|[[Napoleon I]]
|{{Flagicon|First French Empire|variant=}} [[First French Empire]]
|[[Emperor of the French]]
|Exiled to [[Elba]] after defeat in the [[War of the Sixth Coalition]], returned and restored control of France but was defeated again in the Battle of Waterloo and exiled in [[Saint Helena]]
|-
|1815
|[[Louis XVIII]]
|[[File:Royal Standard of France (early 17th-century–1789, 1814–1830).svg|frameless|23x23px]] [[Kingdom of France]]
|[[King of France]]
|Briefly deposed in [[Napoleon's Hundred Days]]
|-
|1823
|[[Augustin I of Mexico]]
|{{Flagicon|First Mexican Empire|variant=}} [[First Mexican Empire]]
|[[Emperor of Mexico]]
|[[Casa Mata Plan Revolution]]
|-
|1830
|[[Charles X of France|Charles X]]
|[[File:Royal Standard of France (early 17th-century–1789, 1814–1830).svg|frameless|23x23px]] [[Kingdom of France]]
| rowspan="2" |[[King of France]]
|[[July Revolution]]
|-
|1848
|[[Louis Philippe I]]
|{{Flagicon|France|variant=}} [[Kingdom of France]]
|[[French Revolution of 1848]]
|-
|1858
|[[Bahadur Shah Zafar]]<ref>{{cite web |date=31 May 2012 |title=The last days of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar in Burma |url=http://twocircles.net/2012may31/last_days_mughal_emperor_bahadur_shah_zafar_burma.html#.VyYMa2NlnVo |access-date=1 May 2016 |publisher=Two Circles}}</ref>
|[[Mughal Empire]]
|[[Mughal emperors|Mughal emperor]]
|British defeat of the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]]
|-
|1864
|[[Christian IX of Denmark]]
|[[File:Flag of the Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein 18th century.png|frameless|23x23px]] [[Duchy of Schleswig]]
[[File:Merchant Ensign of Holstein-Gottorp (Lions sinister).svg|frameless|23x23px]] [[Duchy of Holstein]]
[[File:Flag of Lauenburg.svg|frameless|23x23px]] [[Saxe-Lauenburg|Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg]]
|[[Duke of Schleswig]]
[[Duke of Holstein]]
[[Duke of Lauenburg|Duke of Lauenberg]]
|[[Second Schleswig War]]
|-
|1866
|[[Franz Joseph I of Austria]]
|{{Flagu|German Confederation}}
|[[German Confederation|President of the German Confederation]]
| rowspan="4" |[[Austro-Prussian War]]
|-
|1866
|[[George V of Hanover]]
|{{Flagu|Kingdom of Hanover|name=Hanover}}
|[[King of Hanover]]
|-
|1866
|[[Frederick William, Elector of Hesse]]
|{{Flagu|Hesse}}
|[[Elector of Hesse]]
|-
|1866
|[[Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg]]
|{{Flagu|Nassau}}
|[[Duke of Nassau]]
|-
|1867
|[[Maximilian I of Mexico]]
|{{Flagu|Second Mexican Empire|name=Mexico}}
|[[Emperor of Mexico]]
|Defeat of [[Second French intervention in Mexico]]
|-
|1868
|[[Isabella II of Spain]]
|{{Flagu|Spain|variant=1785}}
|[[Queen of Spain]]
|[[Glorious Revolution (Spain)]]
|-
|1871
|[[Napoleon III]]
|{{Flagu|Second French Empire}}
|[[Emperor of the French]]
|[[Franco-Prussian War]]
|-
|1889
|[[Pedro II of Brazil]]
|{{Flagu|Empire of Brazil|name=Empire of Brazil}}
|[[Emperor of Brazil]]
|[[Decline and fall of Pedro II of Brazil]]
|-
|1893
|[[Liliʻuokalani]]
|{{Flagicon|Hawaiian Kingdom
|variant=}} [[Hawaiian Kingdom]]
|[[King of the Hawaiian Islands|Queen of the Hawaiian Islands]]
|[[Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom]]
|-
|1896
|[[Frederick William Koko Mingi VIII of Nembe]]
|[[Nembe Kingdom]]
|King of Nembe
|Deposed by the [[British Empire]]
|-
|1898
|[[Guangxu Emperor]]
|{{Flagu|Qing dynasty|name=China}}
|[[Emperor of China]]
|Defeat of [[Hundred Days' Reform]]
|-
|1908
|[[Abdul Hamid II]]<ref>{{cite web |date=25 April 2006 |title=The Young Turk Revolution and the 1908 annexation of Bosnia |url=http://www.balkanalysis.com/blog/2006/04/25/the-young-turk-revolution-and-the-1908-annexation-of-bosnia-herzegovina/ |access-date=2 May 2016 |publisher=Balkan Analysis}}</ref>
|{{Flagu|Ottoman Empire}}
|[[Sultan of the Ottoman Empire]]
|[[Young Turk Revolution]]
|-
|1910
|[[Manuel II of Portugal]]
|{{Flagu|Kingdom of Portugal|name=Portugal}}
|[[King of Portugal]]
|[[5 October 1910 revolution]]
|-
|1912
|[[Puyi]]
|{{Flagu|Qing dynasty|name=China}}
|[[Emperor of China]]
|[[1911 Revolution]]
|-
|1914
|[[Peter I of Serbia]]
|{{Flagu|Kingdom of Serbia|name=Serbia}}
|[[King of Serbia]]
|[[Serbian campaign]] of [[World War I]] 
|-
|1917
|[[Nicholas II of Russia]]
|{{Flagu|Russian Empire|name=Russia}}
|[[Emperor of all the Russias]]
|[[February Revolution]]
|-
|1918
|[[Charles I of Austria]]
|{{Flagu|Austria-Hungary|variant=1869}}
|[[Emperor of Austria]] and [[King of Hungary]]
|[[Dissolution of Austria-Hungary]] as a result of [[World War I]]
|-
|1918
|[[Wilhelm II, German Emperor]]
|{{Flagu|German Empire|name=Germany}}
|[[German Emperor]]
|[[German Revolution of 1918–1919]]
|-
|1922
|[[Mehmed VI]]
|{{Flagu|Ottoman Empire}}
|[[Sultan of the Ottoman Empire]]
|[[Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire]] during the [[Turkish War of Independence]]
|-
|1931
|[[Alfonso XIII]]
|{{Flagu|Spain|variant=1785}}
|[[Monarchy of Spain|King of Spain]]
|Abdicated after the monarchists were overwhelmingly defeated in the [[1931 Spanish local elections]]
|-
|1939
|[[Zog I of Albania]]
|{{Flagu|Albanian Kingdom}}
|[[King of Albania]]
|[[Italian invasion of Albania]]
|-
|1940
|[[Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg|Charlotte]]
|{{Flagu|Luxembourg}}
|[[Grand Duchess of Luxembourg]]
|[[German invasion of Luxembourg]]
|-
|1940
|[[Wilhelmina of the Netherlands]]
|{{Flagu|Netherlands}}
|[[Queen of the Netherlands]]
|[[German invasion of the Netherlands]]
|-
|1941
|[[Reza Shah]]
|{{Flagu|Pahlavi Iran|name=Iran}}
|[[Shah of Iran]]
|[[Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran]]
|-
|1941
|[[George II of Greece]]
|{{Flagu|Kingdom of Greece|name=Greece}}
|[[King of Greece]]
|[[German invasion of Greece]]
|-
|1947
|[[George VI]]
|{{Flagu|British Raj}}
|[[Emperor of India]]
|[[Independence of India]]
|-
|1947
|[[Michael I of Romania]]
|{{Flagu|Romania}}
|[[King of Romania]]
|[[Soviet occupation of Romania]]
|-
|1952
|[[Farouk of Egypt]]<ref>{{cite news |date=24 January 2014 |title=The overthrow of Egypt's King Farouk - a dramatic departure from power |publisher=Al-Arabiya |url=http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2014/01/25/The-overthrow-of-the-king-Farouk-s-dramatic-departure-from-power.html |access-date=11 May 2016}}</ref>
|{{Flagu|Kingdom of Egypt|name=Egypt}}
|[[King of Egypt]]
|[[Egyptian revolution of 1952]]
|-
|1958
|[[Faisal II of Iraq]]
|{{Flagu|Kingdom of Iraq|name=Iraq}}
|[[King of Iraq]]
|[[14 July Revolution]]
|-
|1962
|[[Muhammad al-Badr]]
|{{Flagu|Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen|name=North Yemen}}
|[[Imams of Yemen|King and Imam of Yemen]]
|[[North Yemen Civil War]]
|-
|1964
|[[Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar]]
|{{Flagu|Sultanate of Zanzibar|name=Zanzibar}}
|[[Sultan of Zanzibar]]
|[[Zanzibar Revolution]]
|-
|1967
|[[Constantine II of Greece]]
|{{Flagu|Kingdom of Greece|name=Greece}}
|[[King of Greece]]
|[[1967 Greek counter-coup]]
|-
|1969
|[[Idris of Libya]]<ref>{{cite news |date=September 1969 |title=Bloodless Coup in Libya |work=BBC News - On This Day (1 September) |publisher=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/1/newsid_3911000/3911587.stm |access-date=7 May 2016}}</ref>
|{{Flagu|Kingdom of Libya|name=Libya}}
|[[King of Libya]]
|[[1969 Libyan coup d'état]]
|-
|1973
|[[Mohammed Zahir Shah]]
|{{Flagu|Kingdom of Afghanistan|name=Afghanistan}}
|[[King of Afghanistan]]
|[[1973 Afghan coup d'état]]
|-
|1974
|[[Haile Selassie]]<ref>{{cite web |title=The Last Emperor - The Fall of Haile Selassie |url=http://adst.org/2015/10/the-last-emperor-the-fall-of-haile-selassie/ |access-date=7 May 2016 |publisher=Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training}}</ref>
|{{Flagu|Ethiopian Empire|name=Ethiopia}}
|[[Emperor of Ethiopia]]
|[[1974 Ethiopian coup d'état]]
|-
|1975
|[[Sisavang Vatthana]]
|{{Flagu|Kingdom of Laos|name=Laos}}
|[[King of Laos]]
|[[Laotian Civil War]]
|-
|1978
|[[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]]
|{{Flagu|Pahlavi Iran|name=Imperial State of Iran}}
|[[Shah of Iran]]
|[[Iranian Revolution]]
|-
|1987
|[[Elizabeth II of Fiji]]
|{{Flagu|Fiji}}
|[[Queen of Fiji]]
|[[Fijian monarchy]] abolished after the [[1987 Fijian coups d'état]]
|}

== Deposed politicians and monarchs at subnational leval ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Politician
!Division
!Country
!Title
!Type
|-
|1660
|[[Salvador de Sá]]
|[[Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro]]
|[[File:Flag of the Princes of Brazil.svg|frameless|23x23px]] [[State of Brazil]]
{{Flagicon|Kingdom of Portugal|variant=1578}} [[Kingdom of Portugal]]
|Governor of the [[Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro]]
|[[Cachaça Revolt]]
|-
|1662
|[[Frederick Coyett]]
|[[File:Flag of the Dutch East India Company.svg|frameless|23x23px]] [[Dutch Formosa|Governorate of Formosa]]
|{{Flagicon|Dutch Republic}} [[Dutch Republic]]
|[[Governor of Formosa]]
|[[Siege of Fort Zeelandia]]
|-
|1666
|[[Jerônimo de Mendonça Furtado]]
|[[Captaincy of Pernambuco]]
|[[File:Flag of the Princes of Brazil.svg|frameless|23x23px]] [[State of Brazil]]
{{Flagicon|Kingdom of Portugal|variant=1578}} [[Kingdom of Portugal]]
|Governor of the [[Captaincy of Pernambuco]]
|Imprisonment during the [[Conjuration of Our Father]]
|-
|1789
|[[César-Constantin-François de Hoensbroeck]]
|{{Flagicon image|LuikVlag.svg}} [[Prince-Bishopric of Liège]]
|{{Flagicon|Holy Roman Empire}} [[Holy Roman Empire]]
|[[Prince-Bishopric of Liège|Prince-Bishop of Liège]]
|[[Liège Revolution]]
|-
|1870
|[[William Woods Holden]]
|{{Flagicon|North Carolina}} [[North Carolina]]
| rowspan="6" |{{Flagicon|United States}} [[United States]]
|[[Governor of North Carolina]]
| rowspan="6" |Impeachment
|-
|1871
|[[David Butler (politician)|David Butler]]
|{{Flagicon|Nebraska}} [[Nebraska]]
|[[Governor of Nebraska]]
|-
|1913
|[[William Sulzer]]
|{{Flagicon|New York (state)}} [[New York (state)|New York]] 
|[[Governor of New York]]
|-
|1917
|[[James E. Ferguson|James Edward Ferguson]]
|{{Flagicon|Texas}} [[Texas]] 
|[[Governor of Texas]]
|-
|1923
|[[Jack C. Walton|Jack Walton]]
|{{Flagicon|Oklahoma}} [[Oklahoma]] 
|[[Governor of Oklahoma]]
|-
|1929
|[[Henry S. Johnston|Henry Simpson Johnston]]
|{{Flagicon|Oklahoma}} [[Oklahoma]] 
|[[Governor of Oklahoma]]
|-
|1930
|[[João Pessoa (politician)|João Pessoa]]
|{{Flagicon|Paraíba}} [[Paraíba]] 
|{{Flagicon|Brazil}} [[Brazil]]
|[[List of governors of Paraíba|Governor of Paraíba]]
|Assassinated
|-
|1988
|[[Evan Mecham]]
|{{Flagicon|Arizona}} [[Arizona]] 
|{{Flagicon|United States}} [[United States]]
|[[Governor of Arizona]]
|Impeachment
|-
|1992
|[[Edmundo Pinto]]
|{{Flagicon|Acre}} [[Acre (state)|Acre]] 
|{{Flagicon|Brazil}} [[Brazil]]
|[[Governor of Acre]]
|Assassinated
|-
|2005
|[[Diepreye Alamieyeseigha]]
|[[File:Flag of Bayelsa State.svg|frameless|23x23px]] [[Bayelsa State]]
| rowspan="5" |{{Flagicon|Nigeria}} [[Nigeria]]
|[[Governor of Bayelsa State]]
| rowspan="5" |Impeachment
|-
|2006
|[[Rasheed Ladoja]]
|[[File:Oyo State Flag.svg|frameless|23x23px]] [[Oyo State]]
|[[Governor of Oyo State]]
|-
|2006
|[[Ayo Fayose]]
|[[File:Ekiti State Flag.gif|frameless|23x23px]] [[Ekiti State]]
|[[Governor of Ekiti State]]
|-
|2006
|[[Joshua Dariye]]
|[[File:Plateau State Flag.jpg|frameless|23x23px]] [[Plateau State]]
|[[Governor of Plateau State]]
|-
|2006
|[[Peter Obi]]
|[[File:Flag of Anambra State.png|frameless|23x23px]] [[Anambra State]]
|[[Governor of Anambra State]]
|-
|2009
|[[Rod Blagojevich]]
|{{Flagicon|Illinois}} [[Illinois]]
|{{Flagicon|United States}} [[United States]]
|[[Governor of Illinois]]
|[[Rod Blagojevich corruption charges|Impeachment]] and removed from the office
|-
|2009
|[[Marcelo Miranda (politician)|Marcelo Miranda]]
|{{Flagicon|Tocantins}} [[Tocantins]] 
|{{Flagicon|Brazil}} [[Brazil]]
|[[Governor of Tocantins]]
|Removed from the office by the [[Superior Electoral Court]]
|-
|2014
|[[Murtala Nyako]]
|[[File:Adamawa State Flag.svg|frameless|23x23px]] [[Adamawa State]]
|{{Flagicon|Nigeria}} [[Nigeria]]
|[[Governor of Adamawa State]]
|Impeachment
|-
|2020
|[[Wilson Witzel]]
|{{Flagicon|Rio de Janeiro}} [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|Rio de Janeiro]] 
|{{Flagicon|Brazil}} [[Brazil]]
|[[List of governors of Rio de Janeiro|Governor of Rio de Janeiro]]
|[[Impeachment of Wilson Witzel]]
|}

== Deposed politicians and monarchs at local leval ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Politician
!Place
!Division
!Country
!Title
!Type
|-
|1865
|[[Philip Tomppert]]
|[[File:Flag of Louisville, KY.png|frameless|23x23px]] [[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]]
|{{Flagicon|Kentucky}} [[Kentucky]]
|{{Flagicon|United States}} [[United States]]
|[[Mayor of Louisville]]
|Impeachment
|-
|1964
|[[Pelópidas da Silveira]]
|{{Flagicon|Recife}} [[Recife]]
|{{Flagicon|Pernambuco}} [[Pernambuco]]
| rowspan="4" |{{Flagicon|Brazil}} [[Brazil]]
|Mayor of [[Recife]]
|Imprisonment during the [[1964 Brazilian coup d'état]]
|-
|1965
|[[Edgard Grecco]]
|[[File:Bandeira Maua SaoPaulo Brasil.svg|frameless|23x23px]] [[Mauá]]
| rowspan="3" |{{Flagicon|São Paulo}} [[São Paulo (state)|São Paulo]]
|Mayor of [[Mauá]]
| rowspan="5" |Impeachment
|-
|2011
|[[Hélio de Oliveira Santos]]
|{{Flagicon|Campinas}} [[Campinas]]
| rowspan="2" |Mayor of [[Campinas]]
|-
|2011
|[[Demétrio Vilagra]]
|{{Flagicon|Campinas}} [[Campinas]]
|-
|2015
|[[Juan Rosario Mazzone]]
|[[File:Flag of None.svg|frameless|23x23px]] [[El Bordo, Salta|El Bordo]]
|[[File:Bandera de la Provincia de Salta.svg|frameless|23x23px]] [[Salta Province|Salta]]
|{{Flagicon|Argentina}} [[Argentina]]
|Mayor of [[El Bordo, Salta|El Bordo]]
|-
|2022
|[[Jorge Muñoz Wells]]
|{{Flagicon|Lima}} [[Lima]]
|{{Flagicon|Lima}} [[Lima Province]]
|{{Flagicon|Peru}} [[Peru]]
|[[Mayor of Lima]]
|-
|2024
|[[Alice Guo]]
|{{Flagicon image|Flag_of_Bamban,_Tarlac_1.png}} [[Bamban]]
|{{Flagicon|Pampanga}} [[Pampanga]]
|{{flag|Philippines}}
|Mayor of Bamban
|Dismissal by [[Ombudsman of the Philippines|Ombudsman]]
|}

==Notable deposed bishops==
* [[Cyril of Alexandria]]
* [[Cyril Lucaris]]
* [[John Chrysostom]]
* [[Nestorius]]
* [[Patriarch Photios I of Constantinople|Photios I of Constantinople]]
* [[Antipope Benedict XIII]]
* [[Antipope John XXIII]]
* [[Nonjuring schism|The Nine Bishops of the Nonjuring Schism]]
* [[Robert Duncan (bishop)|Robert Duncan]], [[Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh|VII Bishop of Pittsburgh]]
* [[Mark Lawrence (bishop)|Mark Lawrence]], [[Episcopal Church in South Carolina|XIV Bishop of South Carolina]]
* [[John-David Schofield]], [[Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin|IV Bishop of San Joaquin]]

==See also==
*[[Coup d'état]]
*[[Defrocking]]
*[[Motion of no confidence]]

== References==
{{reflist}}

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