In January 1864 Johnson organized a gathering of his state's Union loyalists, where resolutions were passed to elect county officials throughout the state, including a plan for a convention to dispose of the slavery issue ; also adopted was a very controversial and mandatory oath for voters, to protect and preserve the Union in the future.

Johnson again organized a convention for January 1865 which in turn made provisions for the abolishment of slavery and an election in March for state government offices.

As of January 2012, the convention was ratified by 76 countries

The latter convention was adopted on and after 1 January 1925 for astronomical purposes as well, resulting in a discontinuity of 12 hours, or half a day earlier.

He took part in a convention on states ' rights, held at Jackson, Mississippi, in January 1852.

On 31 January 1968, following a two-year constitutional convention, Nauru became the world's smallest independent republic.

The Venice convention of 30 January 1892 was on cholera by the Suez Canal route ; that of Dresden of 15 April 1893, on cholera within European countries ; that of Paris of 3 April 1894, on cholera by the pilgrim traffic ; and that of Venice, on 19 March 1897, was in connection with the outbreak of plague in the East, and the conference met to settle on an international basis the steps to be taken to prevent, if possible, its spread into Europe.

A multilateral international sanitary convention was concluded at Paris on 17 January 1912.

The Polish government also concluded such a convention with the Soviet government on 7 February 1923, for which ratifications were exchanged on 8 January 1924.

In January 1835, frustrated by the political stalemate, Michigan's acting territorial Governor Stevens T. Mason called for a constitutional convention to be held in May of that year despite Congress ' refusal to approve an enabling act authorizing such a state constitution.

On January 20, 1948, King called on the Liberal Party to hold its first national convention since 1919 to choose a leader.

* January 3 – The first science fiction convention is held in Leeds, England.

* January 7 – Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock.

When, at the December 1969 IRA convention and the January 1970 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis the delegates voted to participate in the Dublin ( Leinster House ), Belfast ( Stormont ) and London ( Westminster ) parliaments, the organizations split.

A prominent example of this is the World Social Forum, which is a rival convention to the World Economic Forum held annually in January in Davos, Switzerland.

When Clark received an endorsement by only 66. 9 per cent of delegates at the party convention in January 1983 in Winnipeg, Clark resigned and ran to regain his post at the 1983 leadership convention.

Lake did not appear at the 2006 NATPE convention to pitch the proposed program to television stations in the United States in January, 2006, only furthering speculation that there would be no show.

As Mississippi debated the secession question, the state called a secession convention which met in January 1861.

On January 19, 1861, Georgia convention delegates passed the Ordinance of Secession, and the " Republic of Georgia " joined the Confederate States of America, to the accompaniment of wild celebration, bonfires, and illuminations on Milledgeville's Statehouse Square.

* January 26: Acting-Governor Mason signs Enabling Act for Michigan to hold a constitutional convention on the second Monday in May 1835.

Catt, Stone and Blackwell went together to the January, 1892 NAWSA convention in Washington, DC.

On January 28, 2008, in a speech at the Midem music industry convention in Cannes, McGuinness called on governments to compel ISPs to introduce mandatory " three strike " service disconnections to end unauthorized downloading, and specifically accused companies such as Apple, Google, Yahoo !, Oracle, and Facebook of building " multi billion dollar industries on the back of our content without paying for it ", and of being " makers of burglary kits " who have made " a thieves ' charter " to steal money from the music industry.

* January 21 – The first convention of Star Trek fans is held in New York City's Statler-Hilton hotel.

Layton was elected leader of the NDP at the party's leadership convention in Toronto, on January 25, 2003.

Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.

This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.

On January 24 Paul Bang-Jensen, accompanied by Adolf Berle, was met by Dragoslav Protitch and Colonel Frank Begley, former Police Chief of Farmington, Conn., and now head of U.N. special police.

The queen agreed on December 17, a warrant was signed on January 27, and the Exchequer paid Quiney his expenses on February 27, 1598/9.

On January 4, with the boys back at school and college, Mrs. Lewis wrote Harcourt to say that she was `` through, quite through ''.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

During the period from 1 July 1960 through 31 January 1961, the Medical Museum was required to move to Temporary Building `` S '' on the Mall from Chase Hall.

In January, 1960, the first issue of The Carleton Miscellany, a quarterly literary magazine, was published by the College.

The matter was considered and reconsidered, and finally opposed, but in spite of many objections, the Court granted a charter on January 9, 1792.

In January, 1958, the Minister of the Interior announced that an election law was ready to be submitted to the King, the rumors of election dates appeared once again, first for spring of 1958 and later for the summer.

The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.

The dissolved oxygen in the aeration unit was consistently high until January 29, 1961.

The infamous Wansee Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put to death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich Minister of the Interior, the State Secretary in charge of the Four Year Plan, the Reich Minister of Justice, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

The plantation was sold in January, 1845, and Palfrey thought the new owner ought to pay his people two months' wages.

A bond issue which would have provided some $3.5 million for construction of the two 900-student schools was defeated by district voters in January.

One of the initial questions put to President Kennedy at his first news conference last January was about his attitude toward a meeting with Premier Khrushchev.

When the winter tour began at Los Angeles last January there was no one in sight to challenge Palmer's towering prestige.

The Church Unity Octave, January 18-25, was enthusiastically devoted to prayer and discussion by the various churches.

Then one day, early in January, 1960, I sat down at my desk, and suddenly I was aware of the crucifix.

A wedding set for January 1, 1841, was canceled when the two broke off their engagement at Lincoln's initiative.

The ensuing Union victory was among the bloodiest in American history, but it enabled Lincoln to announce that he would issue an Emancipation Proclamation in January.

After a long debate in the House, a second attempt passed Congress on January 13, 1865, and was sent to the state legislatures for ratification.