Prime Minister Dimitrios Rallis resigns, King George I appoints Kyriakoulis Mavromichalis as his replacement
Coup insurgents hold large public demonstration the following month after demands not met
Assembly on constitutional revision called, Military League dissolved, Prime Minister Kyriakoulis Mavromichalis resigns, Stefanos Dragoumis appointed interim Prime Minister until new elections
Liberal Party led by Eleftherios Venizelos of Crete wins supermajority in elections in November 1910
New reformist constitution promulgated
Rise of Venizelism
Belligerents
Government of Greece
Military League
Commanders and leaders
George I Dimitrios Rallis
Nikolaos Zorbas
Popular lithograph celebrating the coup's success. Greece steps triumphantly over the dead monster of the old-party system, cheered by the army and the people.
The Goudi coup (Greek: κίνημα στο Γουδί) was a military coup d'état that took place in Greece on the night of 28 August [O.S. 15 August] 1909,[1] starting at the barracks in Goudi, a neighborhood on the eastern outskirts of Athens. The coup was a pivotal event in modern Greek history, as it led to the arrival of Eleftherios Venizelos in Greece and his eventual appointment as Prime Minister. At one stroke, this put an end to the old political system, and ushered in a new period. Henceforth and for several decades, Greek political life would be dominated by two opposing forces: liberal, republican Venizelism and conservative, monarchist anti-Venizelism.
The coup itself was the result of simmering tensions in Greek society, which reeled under the effects of the disastrous Greco-Turkish War of 1897, financial troubles, a lack of necessary reforms and disillusionment with the established political system. Emulating the Young Turks, several junior Army officers founded a secret society, the Military League. With Colonel Nikolaos Zorbas as their figurehead, on the night of 15 August, the Military League, having gathered together its troops in the Goudi barracks, issued a pronunciamiento to the government demanding an immediate turnaround for the country and its armed forces.
King George I gave in and replaced Prime Minister Dimitrios Rallis with Kyriakoulis Mavromichalis, without however satisfying the insurgents, who resorted to a large public demonstration the following month. When a stalemate was reached, the coup leaders appealed to a new and providential figure, the Cretan Eleftherios Venizelos, who respected democratic norms in calling for new elections. After his allies' twin victories in the Hellenic Parliament in August and November 1910, Venizelos became Prime Minister and proceeded with the reforms demanded by the coup's instigators.
^Gallant, Thomas W. (2015). Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1768 to 1913. Edinburgh University Press. p. 214. ISBN 9780748636075.
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