Overthrow of Fulbert Youlou

Date: August 15, 1963 • Location: Rome, Italy

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1963.

President Fulbert Youlou was overthrown in the Republic of Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.

Fulbert Youlou was a Congolese nationalist leader and former Catholic priest who became the first President of the Republic of the Congo upon its independence in 1960.