The convention which gave birth to the new organization actually began as a final conclave of the American Railway Union, which opened Tuesday morning, June 15, 1897, in Handel Hall, Chicago.

In 1930, a group of members of the order local to the Christchurch area began to meet regularly at a pub in Christchurch, and at about the same time the annual ' conclave ' was held in nearby Bournemouth.

With the very next conclave in 1939, cardinals began to travel by air.

Raniero Cantalamessa, the preacher of the papal household and a member of the Capuchin Franciscan order, who spoke at one of the meetings of the cardinals held before the actual day when the conclave began.

During the papal conclave, 1878 ( the first in the Vatican since 1775 ) a common kitchen was used from meals and cardinals were barred from receiving food from the outside ; as this reduced the chances for communicating with the outside world during meals, the cardinals began objecting to eating with the conclavists and staff and were given a separate table.

The conclave began on 14 June and had to elect a pope who would not only be head of the Catholic Church but also the head of state and government of the Papal States, the extensive lands around Rome and Northern Italy which the Catholic Church governed.

The papal conclave held after the death of Pope Leo XII on February 10, 1829 to elect his successor began on February 24, 1829.

According to legend, this prompted Ananda to focus his efforts on the attainment of nibbana and he was able to reach the specified level of attainment before the calling of the conclave.

The right to enter the conclave of cardinals who elect the pope is now limited to those who have not reached the age of 80 years on the day of the pope's death or resignation.

He is to collate information about the financial situation of all administrations dependent on the Holy See and present the results to the College of Cardinals, as they gather for the papal conclave.

On the death of Clement in 1721, Alberoni boldly appeared at the conclave, and took part in the election of Innocent XIII, after which he was for a short time imprisoned by the new pontiff on the demand of Spain, but was cleared of all charges by a commission of his fellow Cardinals.

The office-holder is Pope Benedict XVI, who was elected in a papal conclave on 19 April 2005.

The ballots are distributed and each cardinal elector writes the name of his choice on it and pledges aloud that he is voting for " one whom under God I think ought to be elected " before folding and depositing his vote on a plate atop a large chalice placed on the altar ( in the 2005 conclave, a special urn was used for this purpose instead of a chalice and plate ).

When Innocent X died, Chigi, the candidate favoured by Spain, was elected pope after eighty days in the conclave, on 7 April 1655, taking the name of Alexander VII.

Several historians have interpreted the conclave to choose his successor as facing a choice between a diplomatic or a spiritual candidate, and they view Pacelli's diplomatic experience, especially with Germany, as one of the deciding factors in his election on 2 March 1939, his 63rd birthday, after only one day of deliberation and three ballots.

After the long deadlocked vacancy in the papal see after the death of Clement IV, a vacant seat of three years, he was one of the six cardinals who finally elected Pope Gregory X by compromise on 1 September 1271 in a conclave held at Viterbo because conditions in Rome were too turbulent.

Martin was elected pope at the Council of Constance on St. Martin's Day, 11 November 1417, by a conclave consisting of twenty-three cardinals and thirty delegates of the council.

On 9 April 1555, on the evening of the fourth day of the papal conclave, Cervini was " adored " as Pope, despite efforts by cardinals loyal to the Emperor Charles V to block his election.

Fournier succeeded Pope John XXII as Pope in 1334, being elected on the first ballot of the papal conclave.

After the funeral of Pope Clement IX, sixty-two electors entered into conclave on 20 December 1669.

Ganganelli was elected Pope Clement XIV on 19 May 1769 and was installed on 4 June 1769, after a conclave that had been sitting since 15 February 1769, heavily influenced by the political manoeuvres of the ambassadors of Catholic sovereigns who were opposed to the Jesuits.

He issued two other decrees: one confirmed an earlier decree of Pope Gregory X that ordered the shutting of the cardinals in a conclave to elect a new pope ; the second declared the right of any pope to abdicate the papacy, a right that he himself exercised at the end of five months and eight days at Naples on 13 December 1294.

After the death of Pope Urban VII on 27 September 1590, the Spanish ambassador Olivares presented the conclave a list of the seven cardinals who would be acceptable to his master Philip II of Spain.

On the death of Clement VI, after each cardinal had bound himself to a particular line of policy should he be elected, Aubert was chosen at a papal conclave on 18 December 1352, taking the name of Innocent VI.

Paul III died on 10 November 1549, and in the ensuing conclave the forty-eight cardinals were divided into three factions: the Imperials, the French, and the adherents of Paul III's grandson, Cardinal Ottavio Farnese.

They held a conclave in his cabin on the Kalmar Nyckel, and he persuaded the sachems to sign deeds he had prepared for the purpose to solve any issue with the Dutch.

This discretion contributed not a little to his election to the papacy on 24 April 1585, with the title of Sixtus V. The story of his having feigned decrepitude in the conclave, in order to win votes, is pure invention.

At the papal conclave of 1447 he was elected Pope in succession to Eugene IV on 6 March.

The plot concerns the marriage of Michael Anton and Pauline Barclay, who meet when he tends to her bloodied brow in his family's grocery store, located in a primarily Eastern European conclave in Baltimore, in December 1941.

A Papal conclave was held commencing December 14, 1830 after the death of Pope Pius VIII.

On December 28, 1916, Phi Beta Sigma hosted the fraternity's first conclave in Washington, D. C. 200 members representing three collegiate chapters, Alpha, Beta and Gamma ( established at Morgan State College ) were in attendance.

In December 1919, Phi Beta Sigma hosted the fraternity's first conclave after the war.

At the next election ( 1724 ) he was himself proposed for the papal chair, and secured ten votes at the conclave that elected Benedict XIII.

On 14 March 1605, eleven days after the death of Clement VIII, 62 cardinals entered the conclave.

Three days later, at Clifford's suggestion, Johnson called a conclave of the " Wise Men ".

Cardinals present in Rome are required to wait at least fifteen days after the start of the vacancy for the rest of the college before they can hold the conclave to elect the new Pope.

However, after twenty days have elapsed, they must hold the conclave even if cardinals are missing.

The conclave lasted eleven days.

After three days of the conclave, the cardinals were to receive only one dish a day ; after another five days, they were to receive just bread and water.

The conclave normally takes place fifteen days after the death of the pope, but the Congregations may extend the period to a maximum of twenty days in order to permit other cardinals to arrive in the Vatican City.

In 1734 he was appointed archbishop with personal title to the diocese of Montefiascone and participated in the conclave of 1740, where the elections were stalled for forty days because many cardinals kept voting for him, despite their being unable to bring about a decision in his favour.