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On 1 December 1640 — a date still celebrated as Portugal’s Restoration Day — Spanish rule was finally completely overthrown.
Despite his attempts to quell the extremists, Robespierre was overthrown and guillotined in the counterattack of the propertied classes.
The region’s titular autonomy was upheld until 1910, when the monarchy itself was overthrown.
In the quiz, Bush had failed to name three of those leaders and had asserted that the leader of Pakistan, a general who had overthrown the country's elected government, recently "took over office … is going to bring stability to the country, and I think that's good news for the subcontinent."
Like all royal statues, that of Louis XIV was overthrown during the Revolution.