THE STORY OF APRIL FOOL'S DAY


   THE STORY OF APRIL FOOL'S DAY

On this day in 1700, English 

pranksters began popularizing the 

annual tradition of fools day by 

playing practical jokes on each 

other.  Although the day also 

called "All fools day", has 

beencelebrated for several 

countries by different countries, 

 its extract origin remains a 

mystery. Some historians speculate

 the April fool day dates back to 

1582, when France switched from 

the Jullian calendar to the 

Gregorian calendar as called for 

by the council to trent in 1563. 



People who were slow to get the 

news are failed to recognise that 

the start of the new year had 

moved to 1st January and 

continued to becelebrated it 

during the last of March though 1 

April became the but of jokes and 

hooks . This included having paper 

fish placed on their backs and 

being referred to as" Poison" and " 

Avril" ( April fish),  said to 

symbolise a young, easy caught 

fish and a gullible person. 

Historians also linked " April fool 

day " to ancient festival such as 

Hilarig, which wascelebrated in 

Rome at the end of March and


involved people dressing up in 

disguises. There's also speculation 

that 'April Fool Day' was tried to 

the vernal equinox or first day of 

spring in the Northern 

Hemisphere.  When mother nature 

fooled people with cleaning,  

unpredictable weather.  Inmodern 

times,  people have gone to great 

lengths to creat elaborate April 

Fool's Day hoaxes. 

Newspaper,  radio and T.V. 

stations and websites have 

participated in the April 1 

tradition scores of clueless 

customers requested sandwich. 




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