1578 Onawean coup d'état attempt

The 1578 Onawean coup d'état attempt, also referred to as the Five-Day Coup or Flowerwane Coup, was a failed attempt by the military and law enforcement establishments and anti-leftist leadership of the Second Kingdom of Onaway to take control of the country from then-King Sugmuk and the National Privy Council under Chancellor Chepi Nijlon. The coup leaders were  opponents of the King's program of reformism, investigation of, and with their leniency towards leftist opposition to the government and anti-police rioting. The military leadership, having already been in disarray from recent changes in the composition of the General Staff, was divided in their response, and the coup's perpetrators. known as the Special Committee for the Continuity of Government, saw little support from the civilian population, especially in the Northern Chiefdoms. Because of this gridlock in response, most all events of the coup took place in Chawegan.

The failure of the coup an reclamation of the Onawean capitol is considered to be the main force that accelerated the Onawean constitutional restoration towards a more radical reformist outcome, with all members and associates of the SCCG being imprisoned or executed, and the Ministry of Public Safety, which oversaw the nation's law enforcement (and its ) for much of the past four decades, being totally disbanded and replaced by the Onawean Royal Police, which would see nearly all former MPS employees be forcibly barred from public service. It is widely believed to be one of the major motivating forces that led to the dissolution of the Second Kingdom and development of the 1581 Onawean Constitution that saw the creation of the much more democratic United Commonwealth of Onaway.