Deposition (or dismissal, termination, expulsion, firing or dropping out) by political means concerns the removal of a politician or monarch. It may be done by coup, impeachment, invasion, or forced abdication. 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="sortable wikitable"
|+
!Year
!Politician
!Country
!Title
!Type
|-
|81 BCE
|Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Cinna
| rowspan="4" | Roman Republic
|Consuls
|Sulla's civil war
|-
|48 BCE
|Pompey
|Triumvir
|Assassinated by Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator while attempting to flee to Egypt during Caesar's civil war
|-
|44 BCE
|Julius Caesar
|Dictator perpetuo
|Assassinated at the beginning of the Liberators' civil war
|-
|33 BCE
|Mark Antony
|Triumvir
|War of Actium
|-
|1659 CE
|Richard Cromwell
|
|Lord Protector
|Stuart Restoration
|-
|1840
|Pedro de Araújo Lima
|
|Regent of Brazil
|Majority Coup
|-
|1841
|Bento Gonçalves da Silva
|
|President of the Riograndense Republic
|Imprisonment during the Ragamuffin War
|-
|1852
|Juan Manuel de Rosas
|
|17th Governor of Buenos Aires Province, Ruler of Argentina
|Brazilian invasion during the Platine War
|-
|1861
|Sam Houston
|
|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
|
|5th President of Venezuela
|
|-
|1865
|Jefferson Davis
|
|President of the Confederate States of America
|American Civil War
|-
|1871
|Mariano Melgarejo
|
|15th President of Bolivia
|
|-
|1900
|Luis Gálvez Rodríguez de Arias
|
|President of the Republic of Acre
|Coup d'état
|-
|1908
|Cipriano Castro
|
|President of Venezuela
|1908 Venezuelan coup d'état, removed from office while abroad
|-
|1911
|Porfirio Díaz
|
|33rd President of Mexico
|Mexican Revolution
|-
|1917
|Alexander Kerensky
|
|Minister-President of the Russian Republic
|October Revolution
|-
|1917, 1926
|Bernardino Machado
|
|Third and eighth President of Portugal
|Coup d'état by Sidónio Pais (1917)<br>Coup d'état by Gomes da Costa (1926)
|-
|1930
|Washington Luís
| rowspan="2" |
|13th President of Brazil
| rowspan="2" |Revolution of 1930
|-
|1930
|Júlio Prestes
|President-elect of Brazil
|-
|1938
|Kurt Schuschnigg
|
|Chancellor of Austria
|Anschluss
|-
|1938
|Edvard Beneš
|
|President of Czechoslovakia
|Occupation of Czechoslovakia
|-
|1939
|Manuel Azaña
|
|Prime Minister of Spain
|Spanish Civil War
|-
|1940
|Paul Reynaud
|
|Prime Minister of France
|Battle of France
|-
|1940
|Konstantin Päts
| Estonia
|1st President of Estonia
|Soviet invasion of Estonia
|-
|1940
|Antanas Smetona
| Lithuania
|1st President of Lithuania
|Soviet invasion of Lithuania
|-
|1940
|Kārlis Ulmanis
| Latvia
|4th President of Latvia (self-proclaimed)
|Soviet invasion of Latvia
|-
|1944, 1945
|Benito Mussolini
|
|Duce
|Italian campaign of World War II
|-
|1944
|Juan Federico Ponce Vaides
|
|President of Guatemala
|Guatemalan Revolution
|-
|1945
|Karl Dönitz
|
|President of Germany
|World War II
|-
|1945
|Isaías Medina Angarita
|
|President of Venezuela
|1945 Venezuelan coup d'état
|-
|1945
|Getúlio Vargas
|
|14th and 17th President of Brazil
|1945 Brazilian coup d'état
|-
|1947
|Ferenc Nagy
|
|40th Prime Minister of Hungary, 1st Prime Minister of the Second Hungarian Republic
|Coup d'état
|-
|1948
|Teodoro Picado Michalski
|
|President of Costa Rica
|Costa Rican Civil War
|-
|1948
|Rómulo Gallegos
|
|President of Venezuela
|1948 Venezuelan coup d'état
|-
|1953
|Mohammad Mosaddegh
|
|35th Prime Minister of Iran
|1953 Iranian coup d'état
|-
|1954
|Jacobo Árbenz
|
|President of Guatemala
|1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
|-
|1955
|Carlos Luz
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |President of Brazil
| rowspan="2" |Preventative Coup of November 11
|-
|1955
|Café Filho
|-
|1956
|Imre Nagy
|
|Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic
|Soviet invasion of Hungary
|-
|1956
|Bolesław Bierut
|
|General Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party
|Polish October
|-
|1958
|Marcos Pérez Jiménez
|
|Military dictator of Venezuela
|Fled the country during the 1958 Venezuelan coup d'état
|-
|1959
|Fulgencio Batista
|
|14th and 17th President of Cuba
|Cuban Revolution
|-
|1960
|Patrice Lumumba
|
|1st President of Congo-Leopoldville
|Congo Crisis
|-
|1960
|Syngman Rhee
|
|1st President of South Korea
|April Revolution
|-
|1963
|Nazem al-Qudsi
|
|President of Syria
|1963 Syrian coup d'état
|-
|1963
|Juan Bosch
|
|President of the Dominican Republic
|1963 Dominican coup d'état
|-
|1963
|Ngo Dinh Diem
|
|President of South Vietnam
|1963 South Vietnamese coup
|-
|1964
|Nikita Khrushchev
|
|First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
|Removed from office
|-
|1964
|João Goulart
|
|24th President of Brazil
|1964 Brazilian coup d'état
|-
|1966
|Kwame Nkrumah
|
|1st President of Ghana
|1966 Ghanaian coup d'état
|-
|1968
|Alexander Dubček
|
|First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
|Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
|-
|1969
|Pedro Aleixo
|
|President-designate of Brazil
|Removed from the office by the Brazilian Military Junta of 1969
|-
|1973
|Eric Gairy
|
|Premier of Grenada
|
|-
|1974
|Américo Tomás
|
|President of Portugal
|Carnation Revolution
|-
|1974
|Marcelo Caetano
|
|Prime Minister of Portugal
|Carnation Revolution
|-
|1974
|Richard Nixon
|
|37th President of the United States
|Resigned to avoid removal from office by impeachment process after the Watergate scandal
|-
|1975
|Gough Whitlam
|
|21st Prime Minister of Australia
|1975 Australian constitutional crisis
|-
|1975
|Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
|
|President of South Vietnam
|1975 spring offensive
|-
|1978
|Mohammed Daoud Khan
|
|1st President of Afghanistan
|Saur Revolution
|-
|1978
|Moktar Ould Daddah
|
|1st President of Mauritania
|1978 Mauritanian coup d'état
|-
|1979
|Idi Amin
|
|3rd President of Uganda
|Uganda–Tanzania War
|-
|1979
|Anastasio Somoza Debayle
|
|President of Nicaragua
|Nicaraguan Revolution
|-
|1979
|Pol Pot
|
|General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
|Cambodian–Vietnamese War
|-
|1979
|Mustafa Ould Salek
|
|2nd Chairman of the Military Committee for National Recovery
|1979 Mauritanian coup d'état
|-
|1979
|Francisco Macías Nguema
|
|1st President of Equatorial Guinea
|1979 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état
|-
|1979
|Ian Smith
|
|Prime Minister of Rhodesia
|Rhodesian Bush War
|-
|1979
|Park Chung Hee
|
|3rd President of South Korea
|Assassinated by Korean Central Intelligence Agency Director Kim Jae-gyu
|-
|1979
|Hafizullah Amin
|
|General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
|Operation Storm-333
|-
|1980
|Luís Cabral
|
|1st President of Guinea-Bissau
|1980 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état
|-
|1980
|Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly
|
|3rd Chairman of the Military Committee for National Salvation
|1980 Mauritanian coup d'état
|-
|1982
|Bachir Gemayel
|
|President-elect of Lebanon
|Blown up
|-
|1983
|Hudson Austin
|
|Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of Grenada
|United States invasion of Grenada
|-
|1984
|Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla
|
|4th Chairman of the Military Committee for National Salvation
|1984 Mauritanian coup d'état
|-
|1986
|Jean-Claude Duvalier
|
|35th President of Haiti
|Anti-Duvalier protest movement
|-
|1986
|Ferdinand Marcos
|
|10th President of the Philippines
|People Power Revolution
|-
|1987
|Habib Bourguiba
|
|1st President of Tunisia
|1987 Tunisian coup d'état
|-
|1987
|Thomas Sankara
|
|President of Burkina Faso
|1987 Burkina Faso coup d'état
|-
|1987
|Chun Doo-hwan
|
|5th President of South Korea
|June Democratic Struggle
|-
|1988
|Ne Win
|
|President of Burma
|8888 Uprising
|-
|1989
|Alfredo Stroessner
|
|42nd President of Paraguay
|1989 Paraguayan coup d'état
|-
|1989
|Erich Honecker
|
|General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (effective leader of East Germany)
|Peaceful Revolution
|-
|1989
|Miloš Jakeš
|
|General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
|Velvet Revolution
|-
|1989
|Wojciech Jaruzelski
|
|President of Poland & First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party
|Solidarity Movement
|-
|1989
|Todor Zhivkov
|
|General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party
|Revolutions of 1989
|-
|1989
|Károly Grósz
|
|General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
|End of communism in Hungary
|-
|1989
|Manuel Noriega
|
|Military dictator of Panama from 1983 to 1989
|United States invasion of Panama
|-
|1989
|Nicolae Ceaușescu
|
|President of Romania
|Romanian Revolution
|-
|1990
|Hissène Habré
|
|5th President of Chad
|1990 Chadian coup d'état
|-
|1991
|Siad Barre
|
|3rd President of Somalia
|Somali Rebellion
|-
|1991
|Mengistu Haile Mariam
|
|1st President of Ethiopia
|Forced to flee when the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front began winning the Ethiopian Civil War
|-
|1991
|Mikhail Gorbachev
|
|1st President of the Soviet Union
|Dissolution of the Soviet Union
|-
|1991
|Jean-Bertrand Aristide
|
|39th President of Haiti
|1991 Haitian coup d'état
|-
|1992
|Zviad Gamsakhurdia
| Georgia
|1st President of Georgia
|1991–1992 Georgian coup d'état
|-
|1992
|Ayaz Mutallibov
|
|1st President of Azerbaijan
|Resigned under pressure of the opposition
|-
|1992
|Mohammad Najibullah
|
|2nd President of Afghanistan
|Afghan Civil War
|-
|1992
|Joseph Saidu Momoh
|
|2nd President of Sierra Leone
|Sierra Leone Civil War
|-
|1992
|Fernando Collor de Mello
|
|32nd President of Brazil
|Impeachment and resignation
|-
|1993
|Carlos Andrés Pérez
|
|40th President of Venezuela
|Impeachment
|-
|1993
|Abulfaz Elchibey
|
|2nd President of Azerbaijan
|1993 Azerbaijani coup d'état
|-
|1993, 1999
|Nawaz Sharif
|
|12th and 14th Prime Minister of Pakistan
|1999 Pakistani coup d'état
|-
|1993
|Alexander Rutskoy
|
|Vice President of Russia
|1993 Russian constitutional crisis
|-
|1994
|Juvénal Habyarimana
| Rwanda
|2nd President of Rwanda
|Assassinated by an unknown force before the Arusha Accords ending the Rwandan Civil War went into effect
|-
|1997
|Mobutu Sese Seko
|
|President of Zaire
|First Congo War
|-
|1998
|Suharto
|
|2nd President of Indonesia
|Indonesian Revolution of 1998
|-
|1999
|João Bernardo Vieira
|
|2nd President of Guinea-Bissau
|Guinea-Bissau Civil War
|-
|2000
|Aslan Maskhadov|
|
|3rd President of Chechnya
|Russian invasion
|-
|2000
|Slobodan Milošević
|
|3rd President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
|Overthrow of Slobodan Milošević
|-
|2001
|Laurent-Désiré Kabila
| Democratic Republic of the Congo
|3rd President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
|Second Congo War
|-
|2001
|Joseph Estrada
|
|14th President of the Philippines
|Second EDSA Revolution
|-
|2001
|Mullah Omar
|
|Leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
|United States invasion of Afghanistan
|-
|2002
|Hugo Chávez
|
|President of Venezuela
|2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt
|-
|2003
|Saddam Hussein
| Iraq
|5th President of Iraq
|2003 Invasion of Iraq
|-
|2003
|Charles Taylor
|
|22nd President of Liberia
|Second Liberian Civil War
|-
|2003
|Eduard Shevardnadze
| Georgia
|1st President of Georgia
|Rose Revolution
|-
|2003
|Kumba Yala
|
|3rd President of Guinea-Bissau
|2003 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état
|-
|2004
|Rolandas Paksas
|
|3rd President of Lithuania
|Impeachment
|-
|2005
|Lucio Gutiérrez
|
|43rd President of Ecuador
|Removed from office
|-
|2005
|Askar Akayev
|
|1st President of Kyrgyzstan
|Tulip Revolution
|-
|2005
|Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya
|
|5th President of Mauritania
|2005 Mauritanian coup d'état
|-
|2006
|Thaksin Shinawatra
|
|31st Prime Minister of Thailand
|2006 Thai coup d'état
|-
|2008
|Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi
|
|8th President of Mauritania
|2008 Mauritanian coup d'état
|-
|2009
|Marc Ravalomanana
|
|5th President of Madagascar
|2009 Malagasy political crisis
|-
|2009
|Manuel Zelaya
|
|52nd President of Honduras
|2009 Honduran coup d'état
|-
|2010
|Kurmanbek Bakiyev
|
|2nd President of Kyrgyzstan
|Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010
|-
|2011
|Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
|
|2nd President of Tunisia
|Tunisian Revolution
|-
|2011
|Hosni Mubarak
|
|4th President of Egypt
|2011 Egyptian revolution
|-
|2011
|Muammar Gaddafi
|
|Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution of Libya
|First Libyan Civil War
|-
|2012
|Ali Abdullah Saleh
|
|1st President of Yemen
|Yemeni Revolution
|-
|2012
|Raimundo Pereira
|
|Acting President of Guinea-Bissau
|2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état
|-
|2013
|Mohamed Morsi
|
|5th President of Egypt
|2013 Egyptian coup d'état
|-
|2014
|Viktor Yanukovych
|
|4th President of Ukraine
|Revolution of Dignity
|-
|2014
|Yingluck Shinawatra
|
|28th Prime Minister of Thailand
|2014 Thai coup d'état
|-
|2014
|Blaise Compaoré
|
|2nd President of Burkina Faso
|2014 Burkina Faso uprising
|-
|2016
|Dilma Rousseff
|
|36th President of Brazil
|Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff
|-
|2017
|Park Geun-hye
|
|11th President of South Korea
|Impeachment of Park Geun-hye
|-
|2017
|Robert Mugabe
|
|2nd President of Zimbabwe
|2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état
|-
|2017
|Yahya Jammeh
|
|2nd President of the Gambia
|2016–2017 Gambian constitutional crisis
|-
|2018
|Serzh Sargsyan
|
|3rd President of Armenia
|2018 Armenian revolution
|-
|2019, 2022
|Nursultan Nazarbayev
|
|1st President of Kazakhstan
Chairman of the Security Council of Kazakhstan
|2018–2020 Kazakh protests
2022 Kazakh unrest
|-
|2019
|Abdelaziz Bouteflika
|
|7th President of Algeria
|2019 Algerian protests
|-
|2019
|Omar al-Bashir
|
|7th President of Sudan
|2019 Sudanese coup d'état
|-
|2019
|Evo Morales
|
|65th President of Bolivia
|2019 Bolivian protests
|-
|2020
|Sooronbay Jeenbekov
|
|5th President of Kyrgyzstan
|2020 Kyrgyz Revolution
|-
|2021
|Aung San Suu Kyi
|
|State Counsellor of Myanmar
|2021 Myanmar coup d'état
|-
|2021
|Ashraf Ghani
|
|5th President of Afghanistan
|2021 Taliban offensive
|-
|2021
|Alpha Condé
|
|4th President of Guinea
|2021 Guinean coup d'état
|-
|2022
|Roch Marc Christian Kaboré
|
|3rd President of Burkina Faso
|January 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état
|-
|2022
|Gotabaya Rajapaksa
|
|8th President of Sri Lanka
|2022 Sri Lankan political crisis
|-
|2022
|Imran Khan
|
|22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan
|2022 Pakistani constitutional crisis
|-
|2022
|Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba
|
|Interim President of Burkina Faso
|September 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état
|-
|2022
|Pedro Castillo
|
|63rd President of Peru
|2022 Peruvian self-coup d'état attempt
|-
|2023
|Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou
|
|15th Prime Minister of Niger
|2023 Nigerien coup d'état
|-
|2023
|Ali Bongo Ondimba
|
|3rd President of Gabon
|2023 Gabonese coup d'état
|-
|2024
|Sheikh Hasina
|
|10th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
|2024 Non-cooperation movement
|-
|2024
|Bashar al-Assad
|
|19th President of Syria
|2024 Syrian opposition offensives
|-
|2024
|Yoon Suk Yeol
|
|13th President of South Korea
|Impeachment due to enacting martial law
|-
|2025
|Paetongtarn Shinawatra
|
|31st Prime Minister of Thailand
|2025 Thai political crisis
|-
|2025
|K. P. Sharma Oli
|
|38th Prime Minister of Nepal
|2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests
|-
|2025
|Christian Ntsay
|
|28th Prime Minister of Madagascar
|2025 Malagasy protests
|-
|2025
|Dina Boluarte
|
|64th President of Peru
|Impeachment
|-
|2025
|Andry Rajoelina
|
|8th President of Madagascar
|2025 Malagasy coup d'état
|-
|2025
|Umaro Sissoco Embaló
|
|6th President of Guinea-Bissau
|2025 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état
|-
|2026
|Nicolás Maduro
|
|President of Venezuela
|Ousted by the United States Armed Forces during intervention in Venezuela
|-
|2026
|Ali Khamenei
|
|Supreme Leader of Iran
|Killed by the United States Armed Forces during Assassination of Ali Khamenei
|}
Deposed head of state or government monarchs
{| class="sortable wikitable"
|+
!Year
!Monarch
!Country
!Title
!Type
|-
|587 BCE
|Zedekiah
|Kingdom of Judah
|King of Judah
|Fall of Jerusalem
|-
|539 BCE
|Nabonidus
|Neo-Babylonian Empire
|King of the Neo-Babylonian Empire
|Fall of Babylon
|-
|331 BCE
|Darius III
|
|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
|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" |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 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" |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 Aquilea
|-
|238
|Gordian I
|Committed suicide after defeat of his forces at the Battle of Carthage
|-
|238
|Gordian II
| rowspan="3" |Roman Empire
|Co-emperor
|Killed at the 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
|Regent of Cao Wei
|Incident at the Gaoping Tombs
|-
|251
|Decius and Herennius Etruscus
| rowspan="5" |Roman Empire
|Roman emperors
|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" |
| rowspan="2" |Western Roman emperor
|Defeated in rebellion by Orestes
|-
|476
|Romulus Augustulus
|Fall of the Western Roman Empire
|-
|493
|Odoacer
|Kingdom of Italy
|King of Italy
|Killed by Theodoric the Great during the Ostrogothic conquest of Italy
|-
|626
|Emperor Gaozong of Tang
|Tang dynasty
|Emperor of China
|Xuanwu Gate Incident
|-
|628
|Khosrow II
|
|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
|
|King of Kings
|Muslim conquest of Persia
|-
|695
|Justinian II
|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
|
|King of England
|Overthrown by Danish invasion
|-
|1126
|Emperor Qinzong
|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
|
|Eastern Roman emperor
|Fourth Crusade
|-
|1248
|Sancho II 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
|
|King of the Romans
|Deposed by prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire
|-
|1327
|Edward II of England
|Mughal Empire
|Mughal emperor
|British defeat of the Indian Rebellion of 1857
|-
|1864
|Christian IX of Denmark
|frameless|23x23px Duchy of Schleswig
frameless|23x23px Duchy of Holstein
frameless|23x23px Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg
|Duke of Schleswig
Duke of Holstein
Duke of Lauenberg
|Second Schleswig War
|-
|1866
|Franz Joseph I of Austria
|
|President of the German Confederation
| rowspan="4" |Austro-Prussian War
|-
|1866
|George V of Hanover
|
|King of Hanover
|-
|1866
|Frederick William, Elector of Hesse
|
|Elector of Hesse
|-
|1866
|Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
|
|Duke of Nassau
|-
|1867
|Maximilian I of Mexico
|
|Emperor of Mexico
|Defeat of Second French intervention in Mexico
|-
|1868
|Isabella II of Spain
|
|Queen of Spain
|Glorious Revolution (Spain)
|-
|1871
|Napoleon III
|
|Emperor of the French
|Franco-Prussian War
|-
|1889
|Pedro II of Brazil
|
|Emperor of Brazil
|Decline and fall of Pedro II of Brazil
|-
|1893
|Liliʻuokalani
|
|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
|
|Emperor of China
|Defeat of Hundred Days' Reform
|-
|1908
|Abdul Hamid II
|
|Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
|Young Turk Revolution
|-
|1910
|Manuel II of Portugal
|
|King of Portugal
|5 October 1910 revolution
|-
|1912
|Puyi
|
|Emperor of China
|1911 Revolution
|-
|1914
|Peter I of Serbia
|
|King of Serbia
|Serbian campaign of World War I
|-
|1917
|Nicholas II of Russia
|
|Emperor of all the Russias
|February Revolution
|-
|1918
|Charles I of Austria
|
|Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary
|Dissolution of Austria-Hungary as a result of World War I
|-
|1918
|Wilhelm II, German Emperor
|
|German Emperor
|German Revolution of 1918–1919
|-
|1922
|Mehmed VI
|
|Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
|Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire during the Turkish War of Independence
|-
|1931
|Alfonso XIII
|
|King of Spain
|Abdicated after the monarchists were overwhelmingly defeated in the 1931 Spanish local elections
|-
|1939
|Zog I of Albania
|
|King of Albania
|Italian invasion of Albania
|-
|1940
|Charlotte
|
|Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
|German invasion of Luxembourg
|-
|1940
|Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
|
|Queen of the Netherlands
|German invasion of the Netherlands
|-
|1941
|Reza Shah
|
|Shah of Iran
|Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
|-
|1941
|George II of Greece
|
|King of Greece
|German invasion of Greece
|-
|1947
|George VI
|
|Emperor of India
|Independence of India
|-
|1947
|Michael I of Romania
|
|King of Romania
|Soviet occupation of Romania
|-
|1952
|Farouk of Egypt
|
|King of Egypt
|Egyptian revolution of 1952
|-
|1958
|Faisal II of Iraq
|
|King of Iraq
|14 July Revolution
|-
|1962
|Muhammad al-Badr
|
|King and Imam of Yemen
|North Yemen Civil War
|-
|1964
|Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar
|
|Sultan of Zanzibar
|Zanzibar Revolution
|-
|1967
|Constantine II of Greece
|
|King of Greece
|1967 Greek counter-coup
|-
|1969
|Idris of Libya
|
|King of Libya
|1969 Libyan coup d'état
|-
|1973
|Mohammed Zahir Shah
|
|King of Afghanistan
|1973 Afghan coup d'état
|-
|1974
|Haile Selassie
|
|Emperor of Ethiopia
|1974 Ethiopian coup d'état
|-
|1975
|Sisavang Vatthana
|
|King of Laos
|Laotian Civil War
|-
|1979
|Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
|
|Shah of Iran
|Iranian Revolution
|-
|1987
|Elizabeth II
|
|Queen of Fiji
|Fijian monarchy abolished after the 1987 Fijian coups d'état
|-
|2008
|Gyanendra
|
|King of Nepal
|2006 Nepalese revolution and abolition by Nepalese Constituent Assembly
|}
Deposed politicians and monarchs at subnational level
{| class="sortable wikitable"
!Year
!Politician
!Division
!Country
!Title
!Type
|-
|1660
|Salvador de Sá
|Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro
|frameless|23x23px State of Brazil
|Governor of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro
|Cachaça Revolt
|-
|1662
|Frederick Coyett
|frameless|23x23px Governorate of Formosa
|
|Governor of Formosa
|Siege of Fort Zeelandia
|-
|1666
|Jerônimo de Mendonça Furtado
|Captaincy of Pernambuco
|frameless|23x23px State of Brazil
|Governor of the Captaincy of Pernambuco
|Imprisonment during the Conjuration of Our Father
|-
|1789
|César-Constantin-François de Hoensbroeck
| Prince-Bishopric of Liège
|
|Prince-Bishop of Liège
|Liège Revolution
|-
|1870
|William Woods Holden
|
| rowspan="6" |
|Governor of North Carolina
| rowspan="6" |Impeachment
|-
|1871
|David Butler
|
|Governor of Nebraska
|-
|1913
|William Sulzer
|
|Governor of New York
|-
|1917
|James Edward Ferguson
|
|Governor of Texas
|-
|1923
|Jack Walton
|
|Governor of Oklahoma
|-
|1929
|Henry Simpson Johnston
|
|Governor of Oklahoma
|-
|1930
|João Pessoa
|
|
|Governor of Paraíba
|Assassinated
|-
|1988
|Evan Mecham
|
|
|Governor of Arizona
|Impeachment
|-
|1992
|Edmundo Pinto
|
|
|Governor of Acre
|Assassinated
|-
|2005
|Diepreye Alamieyeseigha
|frameless|23x23px Bayelsa State
| rowspan="5" |
|Governor of Bayelsa State
| rowspan="5" |Impeachment
|-
|2006
|Rasheed Ladoja
|frameless|23x23px Oyo State
|Governor of Oyo State
|-
|2006
|Ayo Fayose
|frameless|23x23px Ekiti State
|Governor of Ekiti State
|-
|2006
|Joshua Dariye
|frameless|23x23px Plateau State
|Governor of Plateau State
|-
|2006
|Peter Obi
|frameless|23x23px Anambra State
|Governor of Anambra State
|-
|2009
|Rod Blagojevich
|
|
|Governor of Illinois
|Impeachment and removed from the office
|-
|2009
|Marcelo Miranda
|
|
|Governor of Tocantins
|Removed from the office by the Superior Electoral Court
|-
|2014
|Murtala Nyako
|frameless|23x23px Adamawa State
|
|Governor of Adamawa State
|Impeachment
|-
|2020
|Wilson Witzel
|
|
|Governor of Rio de Janeiro
|Impeachment of Wilson Witzel
|}
Deposed politicians at local level
{| class="sortable wikitable"
!Year
!Politician
!Place
!Division
!Country
!Title
!Type
|-
|1865
|Philip Tomppert
|frameless|23x23px Louisville
|
|
|Mayor of Louisville
|Impeachment
|-
|1964
|Pelópidas da Silveira
|
|
| rowspan="4" |
|Mayor of Recife
|Imprisonment during the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état
|-
|1965
|Edgard Grecco
|frameless|23x23px Mauá
| rowspan="3" |
|Mayor of Mauá
| rowspan="5" |Impeachment
|-
|2011
|Hélio de Oliveira Santos
|
| rowspan="2" |Mayor of Campinas
|-
|2011
|Demétrio Vilagra
|
|-
|2015
|Juan Rosario Mazzone
|frameless|23x23px El Bordo
|frameless|23x23px Salta
|
|Mayor of El Bordo
|-
|2022
|Jorge Muñoz Wells
|
|
|
|Mayor of Lima
|-
|2024
|Alice Guo
| Bamban
|
|
|Mayor of Bamban
|Dismissal by Ombudsman
|}
Notable deposed bishops
- Cyril of Alexandria
- Cyril Lucaris
- John Chrysostom
- Nestorius
- Photios I of Constantinople
- Antipope Benedict XIII
- Antipope John XXIII
- The Nine Bishops of the Nonjuring Schism
- Robert Duncan, VII Bishop of Pittsburgh
- Mark Lawrence, XIV Bishop of South Carolina
- John-David Schofield, IV Bishop of San Joaquin
See also
- Coup d'état
- Defrocking
- Motion of no confidence