🙆‍♂️ April Fool’s Day Emojis Collection

April Fools’ Day is a holiday dedicated to jokes and 🤣 Humor. It is celebrated annually on 🌺 April 1st.

Interesting fact: On April 1, 2016, in addition to April Fools’ Day jokes, Google released a new option for Google Photos — a search for photos using emojis.

Holiday history:

It is believed that this holiday originates from the cult of the god of laughter from Ancient Rome. It was customary to arrange celebrations in April in honor of him.

Over time this holiday has spread widely throughout the world. For example, in 1509, a poet from 🇫🇷 France in his work used the casual expression “April 🐟 Fish” which means “April Fools’ joke”. And in 1539, a nobleman from Flanders became famous thanks to his practical joke. On the first day of April, he gave false orders to his subjects.

There is also a version that this holiday appeared in connection with the adoption of the Gregorian 📅 Calendar in 1582. Until that time, 🎄 New Year was celebrated at the end of 🌷 March. And after the adoption they start to celebrate it in winter, as we do now. Therefore, those people who celebrated the beginning of New Year by old style, from March 25 to April 1, were usually presented with “stupid 🎁 Gifts” and called “April Fools”.

But specifically, the expression “Fools Holy Day” was first mentioned by John Aubrey in 1686. 10 years later, Londoners were playing people with the main then-popular joke “The Annual Ceremony of Washing the 🦁 Lions” at the Tower of London. Then several Londoners invited the townspeople to the royal zoo for the washing of the lions. The joke was that there were no lions in the zoo.

Traditions and Symbols:

On this day, people traditionally play jokes on acquaintances, relatives, and 🤝 Friends, as well as play various small dirty pranks.

In 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England, on April Fools’ Day, it is customary to joke and play pranks only until 🕛 Noon. And the person who does it after noon is called April Fool.

In Scotland, this holiday is called Gawk Day because of a common joke. The traditional prank was to ask someone to deliver a sealed ✉️ Letter with a request for help. When the letter was opened, it had the following message: “Dinna 😆 Laugh, dinna 😀 Smile, hunt the gawk another mile”. After the person delivers the letter to the recipient, he must read it and send a courier to the next person, explaining that this is the only way to help.

It is also interesting that a 📜 List of the best jokes for April 1st of all time has already been created and classified.