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 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])or Old Style and New Style. The prolonged use of this system informed (10[1])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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