Egypt, 1947 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
The dataset records an event coded as a military coup conspiracy in Egypt on 23 December 1947, during the second government of Prime Minister Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha under King Farouk, at a moment of acute national tension over the Palestine question. On 29 November 1947 the UN General Assembly had voted to partition Palestine, which all six Arab member states opposed, and December 1947 saw large protests in Cairo demanding Egyptian action in Palestine, as street agitation and the rising power of the Muslim Brotherhood strained the monarchy. The Nokrashy government, already weakened by the bungled response to the 1947 cholera epidemic that killed tens of thousands, faced growing coup rumors, particularly around the Brotherhood, which had been implicated in political violence.
No discrete documentation of a distinct military coup plot on this specific date appears in accessible English sources. Farouk led Egypt into the disastrous 1948 war with Israel, Nokrashy was assassinated by a Brotherhood member in December 1948, and the monarchy itself was overthrown by the Free Officers in 1952.
Researched Details
Researched
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Sources
Editorial Note
Cross-Reference
Only one dataset carries it. One of the three reference datasets we check against carries this event; the others do not list it. That is not a contradiction — the datasets cover different periods and use different thresholds — but it means the record has had less outside corroboration.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
65112231947
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: King Farouk and the Nokrashy government held power in late 1947; the monarchy was overthrown only by the Free Officers in 1952.
Baseline coding: Plot discovered and disrupted before execution. Recorded leader fate: remained in office; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
New York Times
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