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Once the country switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar (around the end of the 1500s), the new year changed to Jan. 1. As we navigate through unprecedented times, our ...

April Fools’ Day is most often attributed to France’s switch from the Julian calendar, to the Gregorian calendar in the 1500s, according to The Library of Congress and the History Channel.

That year, France changed its calendar system from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. The Gregorian calendar, which is the system we now use, shows the new year as starting on January 1.

Day — celebrated on April 1 each year — has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, though its exact ...