The origin of the holiday is a little more complicated.
Some historians trace a malicious tradition “of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury tales” in 1392. One of them, called “the nun’s story of the priest,” this mock-heroic, which underlines the stupidity.
The tale is on the “March 32”, which can be a playful way to refer to April 1, thus pointing to the day to make someone feel like a moron. Other scientists believe that this may be a typo, and Chaucer just meant the end of March.
Some historians believe that it dates back to the late 1500’s, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. The Julian calendar was a prominent calendar used in most of world countries until the Gregorian calendar has overtaken it to become the standard.
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- April fool’s day full of pranks, but how naughty holiday happen?
Reportedly, the April fool’s Day or April fool’s Day, as more commonly called, to return later – there was a time to make fun of those who were a little slow to adapt to the change of the calendar. Since the beginning of the year in the recently adopted Gregorian calendar fell on January 1, but according to the Julian calendar it falls on the last week of March and ending on 1 April. Those who were ridiculed for not knowing about the change were viewed as fools.
But this is only one theory for the day is useless. It happens that it falls on the day of the vernal equinox in the Northern hemisphere, which according to statistics has unpredictable weather, which makes a lot of people look silly unprepared.
Although the origins of this holiday has been somewhat evasive, this is still a carefree time to build a cunning ploy against your friends or family.
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