The 28 May 1926 coup d’état, sometimes called 28 May Revolution or, during the corporatist Estado Novo (New State), the National Revolution (Revolução Nacional), was a nationalist military coup that ended the unstable Portuguese First Republic and initiated 48 years of corporatist and nationalist rule within Portugal. The regime that immediately resulted from the coup, the Ditadura Nacional (National Dictatorship), would be later refashioned into the Estado Novo, which in turn would last until the Carnation Revolution in 1974.
