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Reforge Party

Reforge Party (Parti Reforge): Canadian federal party led by Grant S. Abraham, formerly the United Party of Canada (registered 2024, renamed 2026), a faith-based right-wing party headquartered in Calgary.

Reform Act 1832

The Reform Act 1832 (Representation of the People Act 1832, Great Reform Act), passed under Earl Grey, redistributed English and Welsh seats, abolished rotten boroughs, created a £10 borough franchise for male householders, and formally excluded women voters.

Reform Act 1867

Reform Act 1867 (Second Reform Act, Representation of the People Act 1867): UK statute extending the borough vote to all householders and £10 lodgers, doubling the England and Wales electorate to two million men; women excluded, leading to the Ballot Act 1872.

Reform and Opening Up

Reform and Opening Up (改革开放) is the program of economic reform and external opening adopted by China's Communist Party in December 1978, led by Deng Xiaoping.

Reform Club

The Reform Club is a private members' club at 104 Pall Mall, London, founded in 1836 by Radicals and Whigs after the Great Reform Act; Charles Barry built its 1841 Italian Renaissance clubhouse, and Jules Verne set Phileas Fogg's wager there.

Reform Derby

Reform Derby is a local political party registered in Great Britain on 18 March 2020, led by Alan Graves, contesting Derby City Council elections jointly with Reform UK and holding 6 council seats after the 2023 election.

Reform Edict of 1856

The Reform Edict of 1856 (Islahat Fermanı) was an Ottoman decree of Sultan Abdulmecid I, proclaimed in February 1856, declaring all subjects equal regardless of religion.

Reform Judaism

Reform Judaism, also called Progressive Judaism, is a major branch of Judaism that began in Central Europe around 1810 and is now the largest US Jewish movement.

Reform Laws

The Reform Laws (Leyes de Reforma) are decrees issued by Benito Juárez's government at Veracruz in 1859 and 1860, nationalizing Church property, establishing civil marriage, and separating Church and State in Mexico.

Reform of office titles under King Gyeongdeok

The reform of office titles under King Gyeongdeok (경덕왕의 관제 개혁) replaced Silla's official titles with Chinese-style names between 747 and 759, later reversed under King Hyegong.

Reform of the Inca state under Pachacuti

The reform of the Inca state under Pachacuti (Reformas de Pachacútec) reorganized the kingdom of Cusco into the Tahuantinsuyu, the four-part Inca empire, after Pachacuti's victory over the Chanca attackers.

Reform of the Six Ministries and private armies under Taejong

The reform of the Six Ministries and private armies under Taejong abolished private armies in Joseon Korea from 1400, shifting military power to the crown.

Reform of the United Nations Security Council

Security Council reform: the UN General Assembly effort since 1993 to change the Council's membership, regional representation, and P5 veto; IGN negotiations since 2009 remain deadlocked between G4, African Group, and Uniting for Consensus.

Reform of the United States Senate

Reform of the United States Senate covers changes and proposals on the chamber's election, apportionment, and procedure, including the 1913 Seventeenth Amendment's direct election, filibuster and cloture reform, reorganization acts, and apportionment and abolition proposals.

Reform Party of Canada

Reform Party of Canada, right-wing populist federal party founded 1987 under Preston Manning; western-based, won 60 seats and Official Opposition status in 1997, became Canadian Alliance in 2000, merged into Conservative Party 2003.

Reform Party of the United States of America

Reform Party of the United States of America (RPUSA): Perot-founded moderate American third party, est. 1995; won the 1998 Minnesota governorship with Jesse Ventura, fractured after the 2000 Buchanan nomination fight.

Reform school

Reform school, also called training school or juvenile reformatory, a residential institution for court-committed youth; rooted in 1825 houses of refuge and parens patriae, largely replaced by juvenile courts, community programs, and secure children's homes.

Reform UK

Reform UK, formerly the Brexit Party (renamed January 2021), is Nigel Farage's right-wing populist UK party. It won 5 seats on 14.3% at the 2024 general election, 677 council seats and 10 councils in May 2025, and led national polls from April 2025.

Reform UK financial allegations

Financial allegations and investigations concerning Reform UK, the British populist party: the September 2026 undercover foreign-donation broadcast, Met Police inquiries into 2024 donations, and Nigel Farage's undeclared £5m gift from Christopher Harborne.

Reform UK Wales

Reform UK Wales is the Welsh branch of Nigel Farage's Reform UK, led by Dan Thomas. It jumped from about 1% in 2021 to 34 Senedd seats in 2026, second behind Plaid Cymru's 43, under the new closed-list D'Hondt system.

Reform War

Reform War (Guerra de Reforma, Three Years' War), Mexican civil war 1857-1861 between Benito Juárez's liberals and Félix Zuloaga's conservatives, triggered by the Plan de Tacubaya, ending at Calpulalpan and leading to the French Intervention.

Reformation

The Reformation: 16th-century European religious movement begun by Martin Luther's 1517 95 Theses, spread by the printing press, producing Protestant churches, the Counter-Reformation, and lasting political change.

Reformation Day

Reformation Day (German: Reformationstag) is a Protestant holiday on 31 October commemorating Martin Luther's 1517 Ninety-Five Theses in Wittenberg, a public holiday in nine German states, Slovenia, and Chile.

Reformation in Lithuania

The Reformation in Lithuania was the sixteenth-century spread of Lutheranism, Calvinism, and Arianism in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, peaking under Sigismund Augustus before the Counter-Reformation rolled it back.

Reformed and Calvinist school movements

Reformed and Calvinist school movements are efforts to run confessional day schools taught entirely from a Reformed perspective, governed by parent associations rather than church or state.

Reformed Christianity

Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism or the Reformed tradition, is a branch of Protestantism that arose in sixteenth-century Zurich and Geneva and today includes Presbyterian, Continental Reformed, and Congregationalist churches.

Reformed Church in America

The Reformed Church in America is a Reformed Protestant denomination founded by Dutch colonists in New Amsterdam in 1628, one of the oldest Protestant bodies in the United States.

Reformed Church in Romania

The Reformed Church in Romania (Romanian: Biserica Reformată din România) is the Calvinist church of Romania, founded at the Synod of Nagyenyed in 1564 and concentrated in Transylvania.

Reformed Esperanto (1894)

Reformed Esperanto (Esperanto 1894) was Zamenhof's 1894 reform proposal for Esperanto, rejected by readers. Its ideas resurfaced in Ido (1907), the reformed Esperanto derivative led by Louis Couturat.

Reformism

Reformism, or revisionism, is the socialist doctrine that capitalism can be transformed into socialism through gradual parliamentary and union reforms, associated with Eduard Bernstein's 1899 Evolutionary Socialism and opposed by Rosa Luxemburg.