Happy New Year April Fool!

Have you ever gone along and accepted something without ever knowing or caring how it ever came about? For instance I am sure we have all been the butt of an April Fool’s day Joke even if we never pulled one ourselves. And I think I would be pretty safe in saying we have all tried to at one stage or another! But do you know how it all came about and how April first became April Fools day?

It seems that we can blame the Church for this too! Well why not? We seem to blame it for just about everything else. It seems that Pope Gregory way back in the 16^th Century caused a little confusion to the world when in1582, he changed the Roman Calender from the less accurate Julian system to the more accurate Gregorian system.

Which was bad enough as the world lost 10days doing this, but what was more confusing was that it moved New Years Day from April First to January 1st.

Then like now, there were a few who would not accept it or had memories like mine and they would forget this change and try and “Party On” on April 1^st like before. When they did this, others called them fools and played tricks on them.

According to Wikapedia: ”Thus the New Year's gifts and visits of felicitation which had been the feature of the 1st of April became associated with the first day of January, and those who disliked or did not hear about the change were fair game for those wits who amused themselves by sending mock presents and paying calls of pretended ceremony on the 1st of April.”

That apparently is how April fool’s Day came about. Not sure what good that information will do for you, but at least now you know how April Fool’s day came about, don’t you?

So for those who still follow the Julian Callander, Happy New Year!

To the Rest, happy April the first, and watch out for those jokers out there.