Who started practice of April fool?????

Question

Who started practice of April fool?????

Answer 1

tomorrow i will tell you.

Answer 2

seems no one knows for sure, BUT........

"The commonly accepted origin of April Fool's Day involves changes in the calendar. At one time, the New Year celebration began on March 25 and ended on April 1. However, in 1582, King Charles IX adopted the Gregorian calendar and accepted the beginning of the new year as January 1. Those who refused to acknowledge the new date or simply forgot received foolish gifts and invitations to nonexistent parties. The butt of such a prank was known as a "poisson d'avril" or "April fish." "

Answer 3

Seems pretty indeterminate... It probably stems from old spring festivals. The oldest reference was by Chaucer around 1400. Here's what Wikipedia has to say on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fool'...

Answer 4

a girl named April, born on the 1st of April and at the age of 20 became a fool on a first of April, hmm you think she too will die on an April 1?

Answer 5

April 1 used to be the beginning of the new year.  Then the church moved in to January.  The people who still though it was in April and practiced it in April were said to be April fools.

Answer 6

Idk my bff jill?

Answer 7

The origins of this custom are complex and a matter of much debate. It is likely a relic of the once common festivities held on the vernal equinox, which began on the 25th of March, old New Year's Day, and ended on the 2nd of April.

Though the 1st of April appears to have been observed as a general festival in Great Britain in antiquity, it was apparently not until the beginning of the 18th century that the making of April-fools was a common custom. In Scotland the custom was known as "hunting the gowk," i.e. the cuckoo, and April-fools were "April-gowks," the cuckoo being a term of contempt, as it is in many countries.

One of the earliest connections of the day with fools is Chaucer's story the Nun's Priest's Tale (c.1400), which concerns two fools and takes place "thritty dayes and two" from the beginning of March, which is April 1. The significance of this is difficult to determine.

Europe may have derived its April-fooling from the French. French and Dutch references from 1508 and 1539 respectively describe April Fools' Day jokes and the custom of making them on the first of April. France was one of the first nations to make January 1 officially New Year's Day (which was already celebrated by many), by decree of Charles IX. This was in 1564, even before the 1582 adoption of the Gregorian calendar . 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. In France the person fooled is known as poisson d'avril (April fish). This has been explained as arising from the fact that in April the sun quits the zodiacal sign of the fish. The French traditionally celebrated this holiday by placing dead fish on the backs of friends. Today, real fish have been replaced with sticky, fish-shaped paper cut-outs that children try to sneak onto the back of their friends' shirts. Candy shops and bakeries also offer fish-shaped sweets for the holiday.

Some Dutch also celebrate the 1st of April for other reasons. In 1572, the Netherlands were ruled by Spain's King Philip II. Roaming the region were Dutch rebels who called themselves Geuzen, after the French "gueux," meaning beggars. On April 1, 1572, the Geuzen seized the small coastal town of Den Briel. This event was also the start of the general civil rising against the Spanish in other cities in the Netherlands. The Duke of Alba, commander of the Spanish army could not prevent the uprising. Bril is the Dutch word for glasses, so on April 1, 1572, "Alba lost his glasses." The Dutch commemorate this with humor on the first of April

Answer 8

its another in a long list of holidays that have to do with the pagans.

see, long time ago, the 1st of April was considered to be the beginning of the new year. now, i dont know which authority figures decided to change it and for what reasons, but they changed it to the 1st of January.

now the pagans, who had some form of attachment to that particular day, still respected the 1st of april to be the new year. and, being pricks that we are, would prank or otherwise cause mischieft to the pagans for their "backwards" thinking, or otherwise being a "fool" in april.

Answer 9

no other but a fool like you.

Answer 10

not yet............