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| 1936 | Bakr, Sidqi |  |
| Counting on his great popular support and promises of social reform , General Bakr Sidqi launches a military coup in Iraq
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| 1938 | Sa'id, Nuri al | |
| Dec A coup is launched in Iraq by a group known as "The Seven." Nuri al-Sa'id is named Prime Minister
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| 1939 | Sa'id, Nuri al | |
| Nuri al-Sa'id is forced out of office
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| 1941 | Ali, Rashid 'Ali al | |
| Pro-German coup, Britain re-occupies Iraq
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| 1941 | Hussein, Abd Al-Allah Ibn Ali Ibn | |
| Mar Baghdad Ousted as the ruler of Iraq for being pro-British
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| 1941 | Kaylani, Rashid 'Ali al | |
| Mar Baghdad Ousts Abd Al-Allah Ibn Ali Ibn as the ruler of Iraq for being pro-British
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| 1st April "The Seven" announce a coup in Iraq, Rashid 'Ali al-Kaylani is made head of the Government
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| 30th May The Rashid Ali Al-Gaylani coup leads to a British invasion of Iraq
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| 1957 | Hussein, Sadisavan Saddam | |
| Baghdad Participates in an abortive coup against the Iraqi monarchy
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| 1958 | Faisal II | |
| A revolution ary coup ends the monarchy
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| 1958 | Hussein, Abd Al-Allah Ibn Ali Ibn | |
| Baghdad Killed during the Iraq revolution
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| 1958 | Hussein, Saddam | |
| Involved in a failed attempt to assassinate President Qassem
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| 1958 | Karim, Abd al- | |
| Baghdad Leads the "Free Officers" who kill the Prime Minister & the royal family
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| 1958 | Kassem, Abdul Karim | |
| Kassem seizes power, with local Communist help
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| 1959 | Hussein, Saddam | |
| Flees to Syria after an abortive coup against the military dictator brigadier Kassem
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| 1963 | Hussein, Saddam | |
| Baghdad A nationalist coalition seizes power including the Ba'athists
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| Baghdad The Baathists come to power for the 1st time
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| Baghdad The Ba'athists favour a pan-Arab, secular socialist state
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| 1963 | Kassem, Abdul Karim | |
| Overthrown by a coup led by dissident members of the Ba'ath Party
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| 1968 | Ali, Saleh Omar | |
| 17th July Baghdad Assists in the coup by breaking into the President ial Palace
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| 1968 | Aref, Abd al-Rahman | |
| Overthrown by a Ba'ath Coup
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| 1968 | Arif, Abdul Rahman | |
| 17th July Baghdad Arif surrenders himself to Tikriti & then is exile d to London
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| 17th July Baghdad Overthrown by a Baathist coup
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| 1968 | Bakr, Ahmed Hassan al- | |
| Baghdad Informs President Arif he has lost power & invites him to surrender
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| 17th July Baghdad Masterminds the Baathist siezure of power
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| 30th July Baghdad The Baath Party come to power
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| 30th July Baghdad The "correctional coup" allows civil ian Baathists to become the force behind the coup
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| 1968 | Hussein, Saddam | |
| 17th July 1st day of a coup that brings the Baath Party to power
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| 17th July Baghdad Breaks into the President ial Palace & holds a gun to the President 's head
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| 30th July The Baath Party come to power
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| 1968 | Tikriti, Hardan al- | |
| 17th July Baghdad Arif surrenders himself to Tikriti & then is exile d to London
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| 17th July Baghdad Helps the Baathist take possession of the President ial Palace
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| 1969 | Hussein, Saddam | |
| Played a leading role in the 1968 revolution
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| 1978 | Bakr, Ahmed Hassan al- | |
| 16th July Saddam, Adnan, a cousin, & Tulfah, an uncle, threaten Bakr in the President ial Palace
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| 1978 | Hussein, Saddam | |
| 16th July Adnan, a cousin, & Tulfah, an uncle, threaten Bakr in the President ial Palace
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