2017年3月30日 · April Fools’ Day—occurring on April 1 each year—has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, though its exact origins remain a mystery. April Fools' Day traditions...

April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day [1] is an annual custom on 1 April consisting of practical jokes and hoaxes. Jokesters often expose their actions by shouting "April Fools!" at the recipient. Mass media can be involved with these pranks, which may be revealed as such the following day.

6 天之前 · April Fools’ Day, in most countries the first day of April. It received its name from the custom of playing practical jokes on this day. Although the day has been observed for centuries, its true origins are unknown and effectively unknowable.

2024年3月1日 · Historians have several theories about the origins of April Fools’ Day, but it’s clear that the tradition of prank-pulling is centuries old. One possible explanation for the holiday comes from an ancient Roman festival called Hilaria, which was celebrated near the start of April.

2025年1月2日 · April Fools’ Day is all about getting someone to fall for a prank or a made-up story. But some take it a step further: On April 1, 1905, Berliner Tageblatt, a German newspaper, reported that thieves dug a tunnel under the U.S. treasury and stole $268 million in …

2024年4月1日 · Historians aren't pulling your leg when they say no one is quite sure about the origins of April Fools' Day. April 1, the annual day of shenanigans, pranks, tricks and hoaxes, falls...

2024年3月27日 · April 1st is celebrated by many as April Fools’ Day, a cheeky date on the calendar when playful pranks abound, within people’s homes, at schools and workplaces, and even in newspaper articles or television programs.

2016年3月28日 · Some people think the idea of April Fools’ Day goes back to classical Roman times, when a joyful festival called Hilaria, originally probably an equinox celebration, came to be celebrated on March 25.

2024年5月2日 · At least one important historic event — the signing of the anti-Turkish alliance by Emperor Leopold I in 1683 — was backdated from April 1 to March 31. In Scotland, April Fools’ Day used to be called “Hunt the Gowk Day.” “Gowk” is an old Scottish word for a foolish person.

Today, April Fools’ Day is generally celebrated as a day of mischievous and (hopefully) harmless pranks put on by both individuals and mass media, but it hasn’t always been that way. Let’s explore the mostly true history of April Fools’ Day.