April fool’s day

             

April fool’s day is celebrate every year on the first day of April as a day when people play practical jokes and hoaxes on each other. the jokes and their victims are know as “April fool’s.” hoax stories may be reported by the press and other media on this say and explained on subsequent days. Popular since the 19 century the day is not a national holiday in any country but it is well know in Canada Europe Australia brazil and the United States.

In the middle ages new year’s day was celebrate on lady day the feast of the annunciation on 25 march in most of Europe the feasts octave was 1 April the holiday may have originated in France as a part of the shift to celebrating new year on 1 January a move formalized as part of the 1564 edict of the Roussillon it may have appeared earlier in Chaucer but this is now generally discounted.

Another explanation of the origins of April fools day was provide by Joseph Buskin a professor of history at Boston university he explained that the practice began during the reign of Constantine when a  group of court jesters and fools told the roman emperor that they could do.

This explanation was brought to the publics attention in an associated press article printed by many newspaper in 1983 there was only one catch buskin made the whole thing up. It took a couple of weeks for the AP to realized that they’d been victims of an April fools joke themselves.