2012 Event After Chen Guangcheng flees house arrest, U.S. President Barack Obama refuses to comment on the blind Chinese dissident who reportedly went to the U.S. embassy 2010 Event The 2010 Kyrgyzstani riots continue as President Kurmanbek Bakiyev reportedly flees the country, the government steps down and protesters control the parliament building 1994 Event Estonia government of Laar flees 1994 Event Military coup in Gambia: President Dawda Jawara flees 1993 Event Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees 1993 Event President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees 1991 Event Dictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending 22 year rule 1990 Event Hissene Habre of Chad flees to Cameroon 1990 Event Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia 1989 Event Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci flees to Hungary 1988 Event Military coup in Haiti: Lieutenant General Avril takes control, Henri Namphy flees 1986 Event President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti 1986 Event Afghanistan President Babrak Karmal flees 1986 Event Corazon Aquino becomes president of Philippines, Marcos flees 1986 Event Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti 1986 Event General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala Uganda 1983 Event Military coup in Guatemala, President Rios Montt flees 1983 Event Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana 1982 Event Guatemala military coup under General Rios Montt, President Romeo Lucas flees 1982 Event Suriname President Chin A Sen resigns and flees to Netherlands 1982 Event Suriname premier Chin A Sen flees 1981 Event Argentine president/general Roberto Viola flees 1981 Event Military coup under general Kolingba in Central African Republic, President Dacko flees 1981 Event Iran ex-president Bani Sadr flees to Paris 1980 Event Upper-Volta military coup under Col Saye Zerbo, president Lamizana flees 1979 Event Bolivia military coup under General Busch, President Guevara flees 1979 Event Military coup in El Salvador: president/general Carlos Romero flees 1979 Event Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza flees to Miami 1979 Event Ex-president Idi Amin of Uganda flees to Libya 1979 Event Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia 1979 Event Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran 1979 Event Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt 1978 Event Bolivia military coup under general Juan Pereda, President Hugo Banzer flees 1978 Event Bloodless military coup in Mauritania, president Moktar flees 1977 Event Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa 1975 Event Cambodia President Lon Nol flees for Red Khmer 1974 Event Military coup on Cyprus: archbishop/president Makarios flees 1973 Event Military coup in Afghanistan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah flees 1971 Event Sudan military coup under Major Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees 1970 Event Cambodia military coup under General Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees 1968 Event Mali military coup, president Modibo Keita flees 1968 Event Peru coup under General Velasco Alvarado, President Belaunde Terry flees 1967 Event Yemen president Sallal flees 1966 Event Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guinee 1962 Event East Berliner Peter Fechter flees over Berlin Wall 1962 Event Argentine President Frondizi flees from the army 1962 Event Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees 1962 Event Algerian War ends after 7 years (250,000 die), Ben Bella flees 1961 Event Yugoslav ex-vice-president Milovan Djilas flees 1960 Event Patrice Lumumba flees Leopoldville Congo 1959 Event Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India 1959 Event Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees 1959 Event Castro leads Cuba to victory as Fulgencio Batista flees to Dom Rep 1958 Event Cubans dictator Batista flees 1958 Event Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez flees Venezuela, Larrazabal takes power 1955 Event Argentine president Juan Peron, resigns and flees 1950 Event Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion 1950 Event King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India 1949 Event Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan 1945 Event Seys-Inquart flees to Flensburg 1945 Event Mussolono flees from Salo to Molan 1945 Event Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands 1944 Event Pro-German government of Hungary flees 1940 Event French/British assault on French fleet in Dakar, flees 1940 Event Dutch Queen Wilhelmina flees to England 1940 Event Norwegian King Haakon and government flees to England 1939 Event Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania 1939 Event King Zog I of Albania, flees 1939 Event Spanish government flees to France 1933 Event Cuban dictator Machado y Morales flees after military coup 1923 Event German ex-crown prince flees Netherlands for Germany 1923 Event Beer Hall Putsch-Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die/Hitler flees 1922 Event Turkish sultan Mehmed VI flees to Malta on British warship 1918 Event German emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherland 1916 Event Emperor Lidj Jasu of Ethiopia flees 1916 Event French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu 1915 Event Serbian leader flees to Albania 1914 Event General von Hausen and countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux 1914 Event Mexican president Huerta flees with 2 million pesos to Europe 1911 Event Haiti's dictator Simon flees on U.S. warship near Jamaica 1910 Event Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England 1910 Event Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies 1908 Event Haiti's president-General Alexis Nord flees from military coup 1900 Event President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein 1900 Event Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, President Kruger flees 1870 Event Leon Gambetta flees Paris in balloon 1868 Event Spain's Queen Isabella is deposed, flees to France 1865 Event CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia 1861 Event Former Vice President John C. Breckinridge flees Kentucky 1799 Event King of Naples flees before advancing French armies 1795 Event Governor/viceroy Willem V flees Scheveningen to England 1786 Event Utrechtse Vroedschap flees 1777 Event Congress, flees to York Pa, as British forces advance 1746 Event Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France 1746 Event Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland 1746 Event Bonnie Prince Charlie flees in disguise to Isle of Skye 1736 Event Stanislaw Lesczynski flees Polish throne 1733 Event Polish King Lesczynski flees to Danzig 1730 Event Turkish coup under Mahmud I; Sultan Ahmed III flees 1711 Event Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov 1708 Event English pretender to the throne James III flees to Dunkerk 1694 Event Frederik van Brandenburg flees Schweiben 1688 Event English king Jacob II flees to France 1688 Event King James II flees London 1683 Event English Whig-leader duke of Monmouth flees to Holland 1682 Event English Lord Shaftesbury flees to Holland 1668 Event King John II Casimir of Poland resigns, flees to France 1667 Event King Afonso VI of Portugal flees 1652 Event Prince of Conde flees Paris 1651 Event Future King Charles II flees from England 1651 Event Cardinal Mazarin flees Paris 1646 Event King Charles I flees Oxford 1644 Event Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes emperor of China and flees Peking 1588 Event King Henri III flees Paris 1583 Event Gelders Earl Willem of the Bergh flees 1569 Event Westmoreland flees to Scotland 1568 Event Mary Queen of Scotland flees to England 1567 Event Dutch prince William of Orange flees from Antwerp to Breda 1564 Event Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels 1358 Event Dalmatie flees Venice 1203 Event Venetianen conquer Constantinople, emperor Alexius III flees 1048 Event Bishop Bernold flees St. Pieterskerk for Utrecht, Netherlands 955 Event Bishop Ratherius of Luik flees 722 Event Hofmeier Charles Martel flees from bishop Willibrord
