Round 6: Tossup 21

Riots in Oxfordshire over the abandonment of this system are only recorded in the Hogarth painting An Election Entertainment (-5[1])and a satire by its opponent Lord Chesterfield. A revised form of this system created by Milutin Milanković was used by Renovationists. This system was supposedly inspired by a conversation about floods of the Nile with an Egyptian holy man at a banquet. Hemerologia tables were used to fit local practices to this system, (15[1])which disposed of the (*) Mercedonius controlled by the Pontifex maximus. The reluctance of Protestant countries to abandon this system required the use of O.S. and N.S, (10[1])or Old Style and New Style. The prolonged use of (10[1])this system informed the name of the October Revolution. (10[1])For 10 points, Pope Gregory XIII names the replacement for what system instituted by a Roman dictator? (10[1])■END■

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