* 1993 – The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.

The New Zealand Liberal Party aggressively promoted agrarianism in its heyday, 1891-1912.

The Liberal Party set out to change that by a policy it called " populism.

When the Macdonald government fell due to the Pacific scandal in 1873, the Governor General, Lord Dufferin, called upon Mackenzie, who had been chosen as the leader of the Liberal Party a few months earlier, to form a new government.

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* 1971 – A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Marcos political candidates injured.

In order to eliminate one of the problems of the reign of Elizabeth, the single party and its destabilizing consequences, the Liberal Party was allowed to incorporate and participate in National Politics, and the ' turnism ' or alternanation was to become the new system.

* 1945 – The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.

It was formed in 1977, by a merger of the Australia Party and the New Liberal Movement, after having secured former Liberal minister Don Chipp as a high-profile leader .< ref >

* 1908 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

National Alliance, launched in 1994, was officially founded in January 1995, when the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ), the former neo-fascist party, merged with conservative elements of the former Christian Democracy, which had disbanded in 1994 after two years of scandals and various splits due to corruption at its highest levels, exposed by the Mani Pulite investigation, and the Italian Liberal Party, disbanded in the same year.

The province is currently governed by the BC Liberal Party, led by Premier Christy Clark, who became leader as a result of the party election on February 26, 2011.

From 1852 onwards, Disraeli's career would also be marked by his often intense rivalry with William Ewart Gladstone, who eventually rose to become leader of the Liberal Party.

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

During 1988, the Liberals formally merged with the SDP to form the Liberal Democrats, though a small splinter Liberal Party was formed in 1989 by former members opposed to the merger.

During the 19th century the Liberal Party was broadly in favour of what would today be called classical liberalism: supporting laissez-faire economic policies such as free trade and minimal government interference in the economy ( this doctrine was usually termed ' Gladstonian Liberalism ' after the Victorian era Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone ).

The Liberal Party favoured social reform, personal liberty, reducing the powers of the Crown and the Church of England ( many of them were Nonconformists ) and an extension of the electoral franchise.

A crowd waits outside Leeds Town Hall to see them elect a Liberal Party candidate during the United Kingdom general election, 1880 | 1880 general elections.

The political terms of " modern ", " progressive " or " new " Liberalism began to appear in the mid to late 1880s and became increasingly common to denote the tendency in the Liberal Party to favour an increased role for the state as more important than the classical liberal stress on self-help and freedom of choice.

After nearly becoming extinct in the 1940s and 50s, the Liberal Party revived its fortunes somewhat under the leadership of Jo Grimond in the 1960s, by positioning itself as a radical centrist non-socialist alternative to the Conservative and Labour Party governments of the time.

The Liberal Party grew out of the Whigs, which had its origins as an aristocratic faction in the reign of Charles II.

In the Khaki Election of 1900, nationalist concern with the Boer War meant that the Conservatives and their Liberal Unionist allies gained a majority of Scottish seats for the first time, although the Liberals regained their ascendancy in the next election.

In 1885, it was held by the Liberal Party but from 1886 to 1906 it was held by the Conservative Party before being held by the Liberal Party again until 1910 when the Conservative Party regained the area which they held until 1918 under the representation of Viscount Lewisham.

At the 1913 election, Labor's Charles McDonald was offered retention of the speakership by the incoming one-seat-majority Commonwealth Liberal Party, but declined – later however, after Labor's return to government at the 1914 election, McDonald regained the speakership until the subsequent election despite the mid-term change to a Nationalist Party government.

He regained full health in January 1841 and was appointed editor of Pesti Hírlap, a new Liberal party newspaper.

Nigel Evans regained Ribble Valley from the Liberal Democrats at the 1992 general election defeating Carr by 6, 542 votes and has been the MP there since.

He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1987 general election, when he regained the seat for the Conservatives from the Liberal MP Elizabeth Shields who won the seat at the 1986 Ryedale by-election.

He led the Conservative group on the Council from 1996 to 2006, serving as Leader of the Council from 2002 until the Liberal Democrats regained control in 2006.

The Tories improved their standing and regained official party status, though MacKenzie finished second to Liberal incumbent Andy Mitchell.

After his death the seat was won in a by-election by Liberal Democrat Diana Maddock, but was regained by the Conservatives in 1997.

* 1990: The LDPD regained its liberal profile and shortened its name in February into Liberal Democratic Party ( Liberal-Demokratische Partei ).

On his departure from the Commons, the Conservative candidate Barry Field was elected and held onto the seat for two terms until 1997 when the seat was temporarily regained for one term by the successors to the Liberals, the Liberal Democrats.

Although the Unionists regained the seat when the sitting MP retired, the constituency was one of very few Unionist / Liberal marginals in Ireland at both 1910 elections.

While it regained government briefly under Hall, it was Playford's resignation as LCL Leader that acted as the spark for the party's problems to emerge in public spats, culminating in the formation of the Liberal Movement.

The Liberal Party regained the seat at the 2010 election.

In 1878 the Liberal electoral majority in Tooele County disappeared, and the People's Party regained control in 1879 after more than six months of Liberal procedural delays.

Late in the year the LM received another boost when Wilson regained the seat of Sturt for the Liberal Party in the federal election, making much of his LM membership.

Blais retained his seat when the Liberal Party was defeated by the Progressive Conservative government of Joe Clark, and returned to cabinet when the Liberals regained power in 1980.

The Ontario Liberal Party, led by Walter Thomson, lost six seats, but regained the role of official opposition because of the collapse of the CCF vote.

On that occasion the seat was gained for the Liberal Democrats by Dr Evan Harris, who held the seat until the 2010 General Election, when it was regained by Conservative MP Nicola Blackwood.

The seat was in the hands of the Liberal Party and its predecessors for 86 years before Labor regained it in 1990.

At the 1992 general election, Liberal Democrat Nick Harvey regained the seat from the Conservatives, and has been the MP since.

It was regained by the Conservatives in 1992, but has been in Liberal Democrat hands since 1997.