Fool's Day or April Fool's Day is an international holiday, celebrated around the world on the 1-st of April. On this day it is customary to play family, friends and just acquaintances, or play a trick on them.
It is widely celebrated in many countries, although none of them is public. The history of the origin of the holiday is rather vague. The first mention of rallies, like April Fools, refers to the late Middle Ages, but these drawings were not tied to a specific date.
Some researchers associate the date of the 1-st of April with the Roussillon edict. In the Middle Ages in most countries of Europe New Year is celebrated on March 25. In some parts of France, the celebration lasted a week, until the 1-st of April. In 1564, the Roussillon Edict was passed, according to which the New Year in France was postponed until the 1-st of January. Those people who in the old manner celebrated the New Year on the 1-st of April, were considered as ridiculous as fools.
The first April Fool's Day is the washing of lions in the Tower. The 1-st of April, 1698, several residents of London tried to play the townspeople, inviting them to look at the "washing of lions" in the Tower (one of the attractions of the Tower of London was the royal menagerie, which among other animals contained lions, but at that time the menagerie was closed to the wide the public). In Russia, the first mass rally took place in 1703.
Various jokes and jokes remain the main April Fool's tradition throughout the day. In France, Belgium and Italy as a joke it is customary to attach each other to the back of paper fish and shout "April Fish!"
According to the materials of anydaylife.com
