Colonel William A. Phillips

Portal:Conservatism/Selected anniversary/January

12th

• 1729 – Edmund Burke is born, considered to be the philosophical founder of modern conservatism.

22nd

• Traditional day of the National Sanctity of Human Life Day in the United States.
• 1974 – the first March for Life, in Washington, D. C., attracts 20,000 people.

30th

• 2009 – Michael Steele (pictured) is elected the first African-American chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Portal:Conservatism/Selected anniversary/February

6th

• Ronald Reagan Day in California.
• 1911 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States, is born.

16th

• 1973 – The Heritage Foundation, which took a leading role in the conservative movement in the United States during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, is founded with Paul Weyrich (pictured) as its first president.

Portal:Conservatism/Selected anniversary/March

7th

• 1871 – José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco is elected Prime Minister of Brazil
• 1871 – Otto von Bismarck becomes chancellor of the newly formed German Empire
• 1962 – Young Americans for Freedom sponsor a rally which draws 18,000 people and has been described as the "birthday of the conservative movement."

Portal:Conservatism/Selected anniversary/April

• 1960 – Barry Goldwater publishes The Conscience of a Conservative. The book reignited the American conservative movement and made Goldwater a star.

9th

• 1948 – the period known as La Violencia begins with the assassination of Colombian Liberal Party leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. For the next ten years Liberals, Communists and Conservatives would fight each other in the conflict.

29th

• 1980 – the first Washington for Jesus rally is held in Washington, D.C. It will become part of the burgeoning Christian Right movement.

Portal:Conservatism/Selected anniversary/May

May 4th

• 1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

May 7th

• 1940 – the Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.

May 24th

• 1988 – Section 28 is enacted in Great Britain with the effect of prohibiting the promotion of homosexuality by local authorities.

Portal:Conservatism/Selected anniversary/June

• 1979 – in the United States, the Moral Majority is founded by Jerry Falwell and Paul Weyrich.

9th

• 1983 – the United Kingdom general election was held on 9 June. It gave the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher the most decisive election victory since that of Labour in 1945.

12th

• 1987 – in a reference to the Berlin Wall, US President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall!"

Portal:Conservatism/Selected anniversary/July

27th

• 1830 – King Charles X of France is overthrown in the French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution.

31st

• 1912 – American conservative economist, statistician, and Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman is born.

Portal:Conservatism/Selected anniversary/August

• 1993 – the European Young Conservatives is founded by the former national chairman of the UK's Young Conservatives, Andrew Rosindell.

18th

• 1988 – presidential candidate George H. W. Bush utters the phrase, "Read my lips: no new taxes," during his acceptance speech of the Republican nomination. The phrase was used later by Bill Clinton to defeat Bush in the 1992 presidential election campaign.

29th

• 2008 – Sarah Palin becomes the first female Republican Party nominee for Vice President of the United States.

Portal:Conservatism/Selected anniversary/September

21st

• 1854 – the United States Republican Party is founded. The party opposed the expansion of slavery, called for free homesteads to farmers ("free soil"), and sought to modernize banking, railroads, and industry.

27th

• 1871 – the Brazilian Parliament passes the Law of Free Birth, a measure championed by Rio Branco

29th

• 1994 – the Contract with America is signed by Republican Party members on the steps of the United States Capitol.

Portal:Conservatism/Selected anniversary/October

• 1899 – the Thousand Days' War begins when Liberal forces attack Conservatives at Santander, Colombia.

1st

• 1982 – Helmut Kohl, described as "the greatest European leader of the second half of the 20th century" by George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, is elected Chancellor of Germany.

4th

• 1849 – Official founding of the Colombian Conservative Party.

15th

• 1991 – Clarence Thomas is confirmed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Portal:Conservatism/Selected anniversary/November

1st

• 1790 – Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, which influenced conservative and classical liberal intellectuals in the 20th century.

3rd

• 2002 – the Justice and Development Party wins a landslide victory in the Turkish general election

4th

• 1980 – Ronald Reagan defeats Jimmy Carter in the presidential election (map of results pictured) and becomes the 40th President of the United States.

November 8th

• 2016 – Donald Trump defeats Hillary Clinton in the presidential election (map of results pictured) and becomes the 45th President of the United States.

Portal:Conservatism/Selected anniversary/December

• 1860 – the Reform War ends with the surrender of conservative General Miguel Miramón outside of Mexico City
• 1937 – a bipartisan coalition releases the "Conservative Manifesto" which was critical of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal policies.

7th

• 2003 – the Conservative Party of Canada is formed

18th

• 1834 – Sir Robert Peel publishes the Tamworth Manifesto which lays the foundation for the modern British Conservative Party.