1922 papal conclave
The 1922 papal conclave was held following Pope Benedict XV's death from pneumonia on 22 January 1922 after a reign of eight years. 53 of the 60 cardinals assembled in the Sistine Chapel eleven days later on 2 February to elect his successor. They chose Cardinal Achille Ratti on the fourteenth ballot, held on the fifth day of the conclave. He took the name "Pius XI". The new pope immediately revived the traditional public blessing from the balcony, "Urbi et Orbi" ("to the city and to the world"), which his predecessors had eschewed since the loss of Rome to the Italian state in 1870.