What are the important events that happened on April 1? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

April 1: Facts & Myths About This Day

April 1 is the 92^nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 274 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 19, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 475,536 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘enneacontadigon’ day.

Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 303 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,119 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

April 1: This Day In History

April 1 is most notable in many countries for being April Fools’ Day.

April 1 Historical Events

• 286 –
  Emperor Diocletian elevates his general Maximian to co-emperor with the rank of Augustus and gives him control over the Western regions of the Roman Empire.
• 527 –
  Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
• 1293 –
  Robert Winchelsey leaves England for Rome, to be consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1919 –
  The Staatliches Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar.
• 1944 –
  Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
• 1946 –
  Aleutian Island earthquake: A 7.8 magnitude earthquake near the Aleutian Islands creates a tsunami that strikes the Hawaiian Islands killing 159, mostly in Hilo.
• 1949 –
  Chinese Civil War: The Communist Party of China holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Kuomintang in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
• 1949 –
  The 26 counties of the Irish Free State become the Republic of Ireland.
• 1992 –
  Start of the Bosnian war.
• 2011 –
  After protests against the burning of the Quran turned violent, a mob attacked a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan and killed thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.

Who were born on April 1?

• 1887 –
  H. S. Lloyd, British dog breeder (d. 1963)
• 1937 –
  Yılmaz Güney, Turkish actor, film director (d. 1984)
• 1949 –
  Sammy Nelson, Northern Irish footballer
• 1965 –
  Mark Jackson, American basketball player
• 1967 –
  Phil Demmel, American musician
• 1972 –
  Allen Hughes, American film director
• 1973 –
  Christian Finnegan, American comedian
• 1978 –
  Jean-Pierre Dumont, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 –
  Sam Huntington, American actor
• 1989 –
  David N'Gog, French footballer

Who died on April 1?

• 1682 –
  Franz Egon of Fürstenberg, Bavarian Catholic archbishop (b. 1625)
• 1872 –
  William Frederick Horry, English convicted murderer (b. 1843)
• 1947 –
  King George II of Greece (b. 1890)
• 1988 –
  Jim Jordan, American actor (Fibber McGee) (b. 1896)
• 1991 –
  Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1894)
• 1996 –
  John McSherry, American baseball umpire (b. 1944)
• 2002 –
  Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer (b. 1947)
• 2004 –
  Carrie Snodgress, American actress (b. 1946)
• 2005 –
  Harald Juhnke, German entertainer (b. 1929)
• 2005 –
  Jack Keller, American songwriter (b. 1936)