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Events on Friday 28 May 1926 1
192628 May coup ends Portugal's First RepublicMilitary coup installs the Ditadura NacionalOn 28 May 1926, a military coup led by General Manuel Gomes da Costa overthrew Portugal's parliamentary government, ending the unstable First Republic. It established the National Dictatorship that would evolve into the long Estado Novo regime.