I know the french started up the popular version of the day, playing trick's on each other, But it seem's more likely that in the season of re-birth ( Spring ) This would be the official new year.
198713
I think Beltane or May Day is the Pagan New Year or Halloween.\n Per All Knowing Wikipedia.org:\n"The origin of this custom has been much disputed, and many theories have been suggested, e.g. that it is a farcical commemoration of Christ being sent from Annas to Caiaphas, from Caiaphas to Pilate, from Pilate to Herod, and from Herod back again to Pilate, the crucifixion having taken place about the 1st of April.\n\nWhat seems certain is that it is in some way or other a relic of those once universal festivities held at the vernal equinox, which, beginning on old New Year's day, the 25th of March, ended on the 1st of April.\n\nIt has been suggested that Europe derived its April-fooling from the French [1]. They were the first nation to adopt the reformed Gregorian calendar, Charles IX in 1564 decreeing that the year should begin with the 1st of January. Thus the New Year's gifts and visits of felicitation which had been the feature of the 1st of April became associated with the first day of January, and those who disliked or did not hear about the change were fair game for those wits who amused themselves by sending mock presents and paying calls of pretended ceremony on the 1st of April. However, it is unlikely that this explanation of April Fool's Day’s origin is correct. Well before 1582, when King Charles IX of France brought in the new Gregorian calendar, French and Dutch references from respectively 1508 and 1539 describe April Fool's Day jokes and the custom of making them on the first of April.\n\nThough the 1st of April appears to have been anciently observed in Great Britain as a general festival, it was apparently not until the beginning of the 18th century that the making of April-fools was a common custom. In Scotland the custom was known as "hunting the gowk," i.e. the cuckoo, and April-fools were "April-gowks," the cuckoo being there, as it is in most lands, a term of contempt. In France the person fooled is known as poisson d'avril. This has been explained from the association of ideas arising from the fact that in April the sun quits the zodiacal sign of the fish. A far more natural explanation would seem to be that the April fish would be a young fish and therefore easily caught.\n\nThe Dutch have their own reason. Back in 1572, the Netherlands were still ruled by Spain's King Phillip II. There were roaming Dutch rebels who called themselves Geuzen, after the French "gueux", meaning beggars. On April 1, 1572, they took a small coastal town called Den Briel. This event was also the start of the general civil rising against the Spanish in other cities in the Netherlands. General Alva of the Spanish army could not do much. Bril is the Dutch word for glasses, so on April 1, 1572, "Alva lost his glasses". Dutch people find this joke so hilarious they still commemorate the first of April."
449437
The new one, in January I would guess.
566941
I'm sure Chinese people don't call it "Chinese" New Year, but they probably celebrate it for the same reason anyone else celebrates a January 1 or non-January 1 "new" year.\n\nBelow is a Canadian page regarding Chinese New Year:
399800
Maybe. Depends on how things go over the next few months/years. Every day that passes is another day of peace or could be interpreted as another day to prepare for violence, etc.\nIts hard to know, sort of depends on how relations go in the next while.
613565
they are organised by different ppl ... so they don't care if it's on the same date as anything else.\n\nMy Advice - Watch the World Cup since it happens once in four yrs, wheras Wimbeldon happens every year!
130862
Well, it is April Fools Day....it's probably a joke.\nI hope!
280074
It will probably be early.
4799
You probably need to ask somebody in France.
261416
Sometimes they tend to do that when it is close to that time of the month.
566952
The date they play...lol....
542842
I think that is clever.  It may take a few weeks for people to catch on.
303177
it's still early in their countries i suppose. I also noticed it... lol
296626
I think that was during the French revolution. So, it being a revolution, that would mean France against France.
33429
of course there will. the season just changed so another season will come on. Of course there will be. It happens every year.
333814
It's Flag day. The adoption of the new flag symbolized their break from France.
40800
No.  The last time they were in the same year was 1992.  The winter olympics was held again in 1994, then it resumed it's usual every 4 year pattern.
638380
yah... i think France will make a good run this year... they're in an easy group...