New Delhi. In today’s time, many new days have come which people celebrate with great pomp. Be it Friendship Day or April Fool’s Day. People celebrate all these days with great pomp and enjoy them. Today is being celebrated as Stupidity Day everywhere in India. On this day, people joke with their friends, families, as well as joke with them by telling them some lies, then call them April Fool’s Day. Today, people in the office, in schools, in colleges are being celebrated everywhere simply as April Fool’s Day. So let us know how this day originated and why it is celebrated.
how did april day start
According to historians, this day began to be celebrated as April Fool’s Day after Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian calendar in 1952. Pope Gregory said that the new calendar would start on January 1, which is what happens now. On the other hand, before this, the new year was celebrated at the end of the month of March. It is said that people started celebrating April Fool’s Day when Pope Gregory started the change of the calendar from Julian to Gregorian on 1st April. However, many people refused to accept this changed calendar.
British started in India
At the same time, it is said that France had accepted to follow this new calendar. At the same time, it is said that people who believed in this calendar were made fun of and those who did not believed were called fools. It is just said that it started from this day itself. While talking about India, everyone says that the British started celebrating it in the 19th century.