April Fool's Day, April Fool's Day, he does what he likes
In order not to fall under the suspicion of spreading fake news, we will refrain from a belated April Fool's joke, which is common in the media world. The current situation in the whole world, except for the USA, whose president says he should have been a doctor, does not allow us to spread fake news like a cure for headaches or the lowering of the oil price. It is purely logical not to take this risk, otherwise people might stay at home out of spite instead of going on the prescribed spending spree and buying toilet paper.
Meteorologically speaking, April is a disaster. The cold air masses over Scandinavia and the warm Gulf Stream temperatures coming from the southwest are fighting for supremacy over Central Europe, of all places; just like cool climate protectors with braids and the lukewarm automobile industry, except that the latter does not come across the Atlantic carried by wind, but from Wolfsburg.
But historically, April, which was called Ostarmanoth in Charlemagne's Frankish empire, offers quite different highlights. Holidays such as International Edible Book Day on the 1st, National Peanut Butter and Jam Day in the US (2nd), 'Draw a Bird' Day in the UK (8th), International Safety Pin Day (10th), Germany-wide liquorice day (10th), and the World Cup.), Germany-wide Licorice Day (12th), the US National Eraser Day (15th), World Amateur Radio Day and Animal Cookie Day in the US (18th), and International Nose Picking Day (23rd) still fall within the period of German house arrest. If no relaxation is in sight on the UNESCO World Day of Dance (29th) to get in the mood for the Dance into May, which should better be celebrated on the 30th, the initiators have already announced that they will make up for the Easter marches in view of the sports and music events that have also been postponed. Let's hope that the first of May will not have to be postponed as well.
Consequences of Pope Gregory XIII's calendar reform.
Basically, the 16th century busybody is to blame for everything that is happening today. For before the last great calendar reform, which took 350 years to arrive at least in most of the world, the year began in spring - hence some incorrigibles regularly send those who still believe in the Julian calendar from Egypt to April - i.e. January - on the first day of the month.
Yet any person with a little Latin, and even some theologians and doctors who accidentally had Latin in their studies so they can match the funny drug names, can refer to the ancient Romans' way of counting: 1. Martius, 2nd Aprilis, 3rd Maius, 4th Junius, 5th Quinitilis (Julius), 6th Sextilis (Augustus), 7th September, 8th October, 9th November, 10th December, 11th Januarius, 12th Februarius, and every four years the leap month Mensis intercaiaris. So the whole thing about the first of April being a New Year's joke is nonsense.
Unfortunately, the Brothers Grimm's dictionary, in its mention of April fool, does not go into the origin of the term, there was no rule in 1854 to explain etymological peculiarities and Google was not to be consulted for the research either, the siblings had to use Altavista or primitive crawlers for their search, so one can understand that this gave really bad results and they had no nerve to make up fairy tales.