Ah, April Fools' Day & mdash; the famous day in which we must all ensure that our toilet paper is recorded, refuse to answer calls from numbers we do not recognize, and generally the question anything we say our relatives.
So how this stupid party even come about? The truth is that he has developed over the centuries, and people from around the world on the fun.
A precursor 'Day April Fools could be the celebration of the vernal equinox by the Greeks and Romans, during which the sun seems to leave the southern hemisphere and cross the celestial equinox.
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The Roman celebration was called Hilaria, and he was held to honor the resurrection of Attis. His legendary renaissance meant the end of winter and the return of cultures.
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first registered association between the first day of April and the sneaky ruse was Chaucer "Conte Priest of Nun " which can be found in the Canterbury Tales (1392). In it, a stuff fox rooster becoming his meal, but was then fooled by the cock in letting it go
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Both the fox and the cock set on the pride of the other to get what they want. fox tricks the rooster singing a song for him, and then he does it, the fox grabs him by the throat. But when the rest of the animals hunt fox, rooster satisfies the predator taunt, to give himself time to escape.
During the Middle Ages in France, most believed that the beginning of the year was 1 January, but few believed it fell closer to Easter. The authors suggested that those of the former party referred to those of the latter as fools.
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It was not until Charles IX gave the record straight edict Roussillon in 1564 that the new year was officially celebrated on 1 January in France.
in 1686, the British philosopher John Aubrey said April 1 as "fooles day Saint." During the same year, a strange tradition started that saw people trying to deceive others to visit the Tower of London to see "the annual ceremony lions wash."
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Needless to say, there were no lions, but the farce continued for over a century. Some believe that this is the first recurrent joke in April 'Fools Day ever.
Then there are the Dutch, who celebrate April 1st as the day they resumed Brielle Spanish during the eighty years' war, which makes the Spanish duke Toledo Álvarez the fool who left the port helpless to concentrate its military efforts elsewhere.
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This is how humans transformed slowly a holiday on the seasonal position of the sun in a day when you put the stapler of your colleague in a JELLO mold. Weird, right?

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