"There are years, centuries, in which nothing happens, and there are days, like yesterday, into which a whole lifetime is compressed." - Adriaan Schade van Westrum

The seizure and freezing of bank accounts belonging to Jewish patrons after the invasion of Austria by Nazi Germany took a day.

It took about 5 months in the 1911 Revolution for the Chinese people to shake off 5,000 years of dynastic rule.

There have been hundreds of coups, many of them successful within a day in terms of major changes. Some of the most recent are in Thailand, Sudan, Niger, Myanmar, Honduras, Guinea, Gabon, Egypt. Lest we think this something that won't hit the G7, France and Germany have had major coup attempts as well.

Wars can take a day to start.