Caption: Julius Alien.

The Assassination of Julius Caesar on 44 BC Mar15 (AKA the Ides of March) was NOT a consequence of the imposition of the Julian calendar.

But it is true that people do tend to be become irate when longstanding conventions are eliminated no matter how inefficient or klutzy they may be---this is why we still use the Fahrenheit scale.

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