# Canonical recap data for Carnation Revolution Portugal (1974)
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slug: carnation-revolution
canonicalUrl: "https://recap.at/1974/carnation-revolution"
title: Carnation Revolution Portugal
subtitle: Military coup toppling 48-year dictatorship; bloodless revolution earning its floral epithet.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1974-04-25
datePrecision: day
year: 1974
decade: 1970
country:
name: Portugal
slug: portugal
summaryShort: The Carnation Revolution, code-named Operation Historic Turn, also known as the 25th of April, was a military coup in Portugal by officers that on 25 April 1974 overthrew Marcelo Caetano and the Estado Novo regime established by António de Oliveira Salazar. The coup came in the midst of the Portuguese Colonial War (196
summaryLong: The Carnation Revolution, code-named Operation Historic Turn, also known as the 25th of April, was a military coup in Portugal by officers that on 25 April 1974 overthrew Marcelo Caetano and the Estado Novo regime established by António de Oliveira Salazar. The coup came in the midst of the Portuguese Colonial War (1961–1974) in its overseas colonies and produced major social, economic, territorial, demographic, and political changes in Portugal and in Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and other former Portuguese colonies through the Ongoing Revolutionary Process. It resulted in the Portuguese transition to democracy and an end to the Portuguese Colonial War. It also had worldwide repercussions by marking the beginning of the third wave of democracy.
lede: On April 25, 1974, a group of Portuguese military officers seized power and dismantled nearly 50 years of authoritarian rule under the Estado Novo regime. The bloodless coup, later called the Carnation Revolution, ended Portugal's brutal colonial wars in Africa and restored democracy to the country.
heroImageUrl: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Revolu%C3%A7%C3%A3o_dos_Cravos.jpg/1280px-Revolu%C3%A7%C3%A3o_dos_Cravos.jpg"
heroImageCredit: Wikipedia · "Carnation Revolution"
importance: 84
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts: []
timeline: []
sources:
- url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution"
  title: Carnation Revolution
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
categories:
- revolution
- protest
metaDescription: The 1974 military coup that ended Portugal's dictatorship and colonial wars. How a revolution changed Europe.
wikidataQid: Q193245
taxonomy:
domain: political
eventTypes:
- coup
canonicalClasses:
- governance
- transformation
impactRadius: national
velocity: sudden
predictability: black_swan
intentionality: coordinated
domainCoupling: multi_domain
archiveSnapshots:
- url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20260528074812/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution"
  capturedAt: 2026-05-28
  label: Carnation Revolution
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution"
