In 1898, Emperor Guangxu was guided by reformers like Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao for a drastic reform in education, military and economy under the Hundred Days Reforms.

Reforms included changing the spelling by removing non-Roman letters such as ĉ and re-introducing the k / q dichotomy ; removing a couple of the more obscure phonemic contrasts ( one of which,, has been effectively removed from standard Esperanto ); ending the infinitives in-r and the plurals in-i like Italian ; eliminating adjectival agreement, and removing the need for the accusative case by setting up a fixed default word order ; reducing the amount of inherent gender in the vocabulary, providing a masculine suffix and an epicene third-person singular pronoun ; replacing the pronouns and correlatives with forms more similar to the Romance languages ; adding new roots where Esperanto uses the antonymic prefix mal -; replacing much of Esperanto's other regular derivation with separate roots, which are thought to be easier for Westerners to remember ; and replacing much of the Germanic and Slavic vocabulary with Romance forms, such as navo for English-derived ŝipo.

Reforms similar to those proposed in the article were implemented in, for example, Chile in 1981 and Sweden in 1992.

The earliest dates to prehistoric or legendary pasts, from the time of Yūryaku ( r .? 456 –? 479 ) to those of the little documented Yōmei ( r. 585 – 587 ), Saimei ( r. 594 – 661 ), and finally Tenji ( r. 668 – 671 ) during the Taika Reforms and the time of Fujiwara no Kamatari ( 614 – 669 ).

Reforms such as The Caste Disabilities Removal Act, 1850, the Hindu Widows ' Remarriage Act, 1856, the Hindu Inheritance ( Removal of Disabilities ) Act, 1928, the Hindu law of Inheritance ( Amendment ) Act, 1929, the Hindu Gains of Learning Act, 1930, the Hindu Women's Right to Property Act, 1937, the Hindu Married Women's Right to separate Residence and Maintenance Act, 1946 were all enacted to give relief to those who are not content to abide by ancient shastras.

The term comes from the Latin decanus, " a leader of ten ", taken from the medieval monasteries ( particularly those following the Cluniac Reforms ) which were often extremely large, with hundreds of monks ( the size of a small college campus ).

He also instituted the Cardwell Reforms in 1869 that made peacetime flogging illegal and, in 1870, the Irish Land Act and the Forster's Education Act.

Reforms instituted by the Belgians in the 1950s encouraged the growth of democratic political institutions but were resisted by the Tutsi traditionalists, who saw them as a threat to Tutsi rule.

This changed with the harsh Agrarian Reforms instituted by the government of Juan Velasco Alvarado in the late 1960s that had a devastating effect on the Peruvian Paso horse within Peru.

In 1779 the Revolt of the Comuneros pitted middle-class and rural residents against the royal authorities over the issue of new taxes instituted as part of the Bourbon Reforms.

Reforms were instituted, and since then the central government's policy in Tibet has granted most religious freedoms.

The Rajasthan Land Reforms and Resumption of Jagirs Act, 1952 was the landmark in the legal history of land reforms in Rajasthan which was followed by Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 that became applicable to the whole of Rajasthan.

* Bourbon Reforms, a series of measures taken by the Spanish Crown

Reforms are usually proposed by thinkers who aim to redress societal ills or institute societal changes, most often through a change in the education of the members of a class of people — the preparation of a ruling class to rule or a working class to work, the social hygiene of a lower or immigrant class, the preparation of citizens in a democracy or republic, etc.

By this document the Church gave up much of what had been claimed and subsequently attained by Pope Gregory VII and his Gregorian Reforms.

Of all the Gregorian Reforms which were embodied by Lateran I, celibacy of the clergy was the most successful.

In the wake of the Cluniac Reforms, this involvement was increasingly seen as inappropriate by the Papacy.

For about the next 10 years, the country saw a steady process of secular Westernization through Atatürk's Reforms, which included the unification of education ; the discontinuation of religious and other titles ; the closure of Islamic courts and the replacement of Islamic canon law with a secular civil code modeled after Switzerland's and a penal code modeled after the Italian Penal Code ; recognition of the equality between the sexes and the granting of full political rights to women on 5 December 1934 ; the language reform initiated by the newly founded Turkish Language Association ; replacement of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet with the new Turkish alphabet derived from the Latin alphabet ; the dress law ( the wearing of a fez, is outlawed ); the law on family names ; and many others.

A major change in the structure of Zambia's economy came with the Mulungushi Reforms of April 1968: Kaunda declared his intention to acquire an equity holding ( usually 51 % or more ) in a number of key foreign-owned firms, to be controlled by his Industrial Development Corporation ( INDECO ).

In December 1934, a small group of nationalists — members of the newly formed Moroccan Action Committee ( Comité d ' Action Marocaine — CAM )— proposed a Plan of Reforms that called for a return to indirect rule as envisaged by the Treaty of Fès, admission of Moroccans to government positions, and establishment of representative councils.

As archbishop, he was appointed papal legate to France by Pope Paschal II during the time that Paschal was induced under pressure from Holy Roman Emperor Henry V to issue the Privilegium of 1111, by which he yielded much of the papal prerogatives that had been so forcefully claimed by Pope Gregory VII in the Gregorian Reforms.

A major switch in the structure of Zambia's economy came with the Mulungushi Reforms of April 1968: the government declared its intention to acquire equity holdings ( usually 51 % or more ) in a number of key foreign-owned firms, to be controlled by a parastatal conglomerate named the Industrial Development Corporation ( INDECO ).

It saw the final Christianisation of Scandinavia and the emergence of the Peace and Truce of God movements, the Gregorian Reforms, and the Crusades which revitalised a church and a papacy that had survived tarnished by the tumultuous 10th century.

* 1043: the Song Dynasty Chancellor of China, Fan Zhongyan, and prominent official and historian Ouyang Xiu introduce the Qingli Reforms, which would be rescinded by the court in 1045 due to partisan resistance to reforms.

* The Qingli Reforms, put forth by the Chinese statesmen Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhongyan in 1043, are halted by their conservative ministerial peers, but would later influence reform efforts under Wang Anshi.

* In Song Dynasty China, the statesmen Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhongyan put forth the Qingli Reforms, which are halted by 1045.

He welcomed The Indian Councils Act, popularly known as Minto-Morley Reforms, which had been passed by British Parliament in May 1909, terming it as " a marked increase of confidence between the Rulers and the Ruled ".

* Reforms to the armed forces, as characterised by a reduction in basic military training from eighteen to fifteen months and a reorganisation of education and training, as well as personnel and procurement procedures.

Reforms were resisted by the planters, led by Henry K. Davson, owner of a large plantation.

The lengthy reform process of assimilating the Celtic churches into the European mainstream was caused in part by the slow reform of the Papacy itself over many years, but it quickened after the Gregorian Reforms ( 1150 – 80 ).

Reforms, though, were carried out.

Reforms in training and gunnery were introduced to make good perceived deficiencies, which in part Tirpitz had counted upon to provide his ships with a margin of superiority.

Reforms that were undertaken included the reduction or abolition of education, healthcare and nutrition fees to millions of Venezuelans.

Reforms were made in the structures of the state security.

Reforms were implemented and prisoner numbers were considerably reduced.

The most dramatic and influential changes Marius made to the Roman army were named the Marian Reforms.

These were formalised under the Cardwell Reforms that began in the 1860s.

Reforms included: the age for compulsory schooling was raised from 14 to 16, free schooling until the 11th grade, school boards were reorganized, school curricula were standardized, and classical colleges were replaced with cégeps.

Reforms based on various European states including Imperial Britain, Imperial Germany, and Switzerland were made so that it would become responsive to control from the central government, prepared for future conflicts, and develop refined command and support structures ; it led to the development of professional military thinkers and cadre.

Atatürk's Reforms were a series of significant political, legal, cultural, social and economic changes that were implemented under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in the early years of the Republic of Turkey.

Fukushima became a Province of Mutsu after the Taika Reforms were established in 646.

Reforms in press supervision and the right of holding meetings were promised.

These laws were called the Gabo Reforms referring to the year ( 1894 ) in which they began.

The Pombaline Reforms were a series of reforms with the goal of making Portugal an economically self-sufficient and commercially strong nation, by means of expanding Brazilian territory, streamlining the administration of colonial Brazil, and fiscal and economic reforms both in the Colony and in Portugal.

Reforms were slowly made to reduce the number of judicial and religious appointments and these members were slowly replaced by indirectly elected members.