When is April Fools’ Day 2022?

April Fools’ Day or April Fool’s Day 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 is sometimes involved in these pranks, which may be revealed as such the following day.

A disputed association between 1 April and foolishness is in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (1392).

In the “Nun’s Priest’s Tale”, a vain cock Chauntecleer is tricked by a fox on “Since March began thirty days and two”, that is 32 days since March began, which is 1 April.

However, it is not clear that Chaucer was referencing 1 April since the text of the “Nun’s Priest’s Tale” also states that the story takes place on the day when the sun is “in the sign of Taurus had y-rune Twenty degrees and one”, which would not be 1 April.

However, modern scholars believe that there is a copying error in the extant manuscripts and that Chaucer actually wrote, “Syn March was gon”.

April Fools’ Day 2022 falls on a Friday.