1880 Laiatanese coup d'état

1880 Laiatanese coup d'état
Part of Military junta rule in Laiatan
Date July 8, 1880 - August 3, 1880 Location Laiatanese Empire Result Coup successful Military rule established Emperor decrees dictators as legal government Partisan groups established to counter junta Civil war erupts five years later
Belligerents
National Republican Front Volkgoroda Guards	Laiatanese Imperial Government
Commanders and leaders
Leonid Arzamastsev Artyom Grebenshchikov Milorad Kosterlovovich	Emperor Yuri IV Konstantin Yakushev
Strength
50,000 Volkgoroda Guards 24,000 coup loyalists	55,000 Imperial forces
Casualties and losses
8,500 killed or wounded	11,200 killed or wounded

The 1880 Laiatanese coup d'état (Laiatanese: 1880 Лаиатанский государственный переворот, tr. 1880 Laiatanskiy gosudarstvennyy perevorot), commonly known as the Takeover (Laiatanese: Приобретение, tr. Priobreteniye) among the public was a successful coup d'état in Laiatan orchestrated by General-Colonel Leonid Arzamastsev and his deputies. It began on July 8, 1880 with the Volkgoroda Guards storming the Parliament building and arresting Members of Parliament.