All about the Month of April

Trivia for the Month of April

• The 4th month of the year in Gregorian Calendar

• One of four months with a length of 30 days

• Originally the 2nd month of the Roman Calendar (before January and February were added by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC.
  

• However, The derivation of the name (Latin Aprilis) is uncertain;

• The traditional etymology is from the Latin aperire, "to open," in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to "open", so basically there goes the springtime.

• The Anglo-Saxons called April Oster-monath or Eostur-monath, the period sacred to Eostre or Ostara, the pagan Saxon goddess of spring, from whose name is derived the modern Easter. Which explains, Easter Holiday falls on April.

• In China the symbolic ploughing of the earth by the emperor and princes of the blood takes place in their third month, which frequently corresponds to our April.

• The Finnish called this month Huhtikuu, or 'Burnwood Month', when the wood for beat and burn clearing of farmland was felled.
• The "days of April" (journées d'avril) is a name appropriated in French history to a series of insurrections at Lyons, Paris and elsewhere, against the government of Louis Philippe in 1834, which led to violent repressive measures, and to a famous trial known as the procès d'avril.
• The birthstone of April is the diamond
• the birth flower is typically listed as either the Daisy or the Sweet Pea and the Tulip, as well.
• April starts on the same day of the week as July in all years, and January in leap years
  
  

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