Round 6: Tossup 21

Riots in Oxfordshire over the abandonment of this system are only recorded in the Hogarth painting An Election Entertainment 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 (15[1])with an Egyptian holy man at a banquet. Hemerologia tables were used to fit local practices to this system, 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]-5[1])or Old Style and New Style. The prolonged use of this system informed the name of the October Revolution. For 10 points, Pope Gregory XIII names the replacement for what system instituted by a Roman dictator? ■END■

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