HISTORY BEHIND THE APRIL FOOL'S DAY

As we all know, April 1st is a fool's day and the financial year also starts on the same day. But most people don’t know the history behind April 1st. Jokers often expose their actions by shouting “April fool”! At the recipient. Most of the media is involved in these pranks, which may be revealed the following day. The day is not a public day in any country expect Odessa inUkraine, where the first of April is an official city holiday. In Scotland,, the tradition became a two-day event starting with hunting the gowk  (gowk is a word for cuckoo bird a symbol for a fool)

Lots of myth and rumor's are spread  about the "APRIL FOOLS DAY". The histories speculate that April fools day dates back to 1582 when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar called for by the council of Trent in 1563. Hence making it the most commonly believed reason for celebrating the day.  While many refused to accept the change and continued following the Julian calendar. France was the first country to accept and implement the new calendar.

 Gregorian calendar

Julian calendar

One story goes that April fools day began with France in 1564 Edict of Roussillon, which decreed that New Year’s day, historically observed on Easter by Christians, was moved to January 1. Easter is a movable, lunar-based date but often falls in April, so it's said that early adopters dubbed people celebrating the old New Year’s Eve April fools

  Edict of Roussillon                                     Roussillon                          

Historians have also linked April fools day to festivals such as Hilaria (Latin for Joyful),which was celebrated in Ancient Rome at the end of March by followers of the cult of cyble. It involved people dressing up in disguises and mocking fellow citizens and even magistrates and was said to be inspired by the Egyptian legend of Isis, Osiris and Seth.

SETH                OSIRIS                              ISIS     

Lots of books, movies and television episodes have used April fools day as their title or inspiration. Like Bryce Courtenay's novel April fools day (1993)

Bryce Courtenay

Now days the holiday is stylized both as April fools day and as a emphasizing April fool as a singular concept. April fools day indicating plural April fools, whether the people or the pranks. And don’t forget to shout April fool! When the prank is revealed. Don’t forget the famous quote Believe nothing and trust no one today is April fools day

HISTORICAL APRIL FOOL DAY PRANKS EVER

In 1996,Taco Bell, the fast-food restaurant chain, duped people when it was announced it had agreed to purchase Philadelphia's LibertyBell and intended to rename it Taco Liberty Bell in 1998. After Burger King advertised “Left-handed whopper” scores of customers requested the fake sandwich. Google notoriously hosts. An annual April Fools’ Day prank that has included everything from “telepathic search” to the ability to play Pac Man on google maps