Happy New Year to Fools?

After the PR disaster of handling of Copernicus and Galileo Galleili's assertion of the law of nature, the Vatican wised up. The new Pope invested their new earned contributions from the masses into books, library and scientific research. One of the new investment was a sundial monument to observe the movement of the sun.

Commission for the Reform of the Calendar
(Pope Gregory XIII Presiding), Biccherna Tablet, 1582

New discoveries showed that the Church and the rest of the civilized world have been getting it all wrong. The radical minded Pope decreed that, to synchronize the season and to give leeway for the errors of the counting of the calender all this while, modern world should fast forward the year by more than 10 days. He set the New Year should start on 1st January every year from that year onwards. News spread like wildfire across the European continent.
Their transatlantic cousins who never really fancied the Vatican control (and in absence of global news network) continued ushering their new year at the end of March. The high nosed aristocratic Europeans used to sneer down their buffoonery and named their New Year All Fools' Day!
Interesting to note that the original new year used to be celebrated from March 25th all the way to April 1st, which coincided with the Holi celebration of fun and pranks as well as Persian new year, vernal equinox and springtime!
Rather than rejoicing to the pagan festivity of the position of the Sun in relation to the equator (even though the Sun is the elixir of life as we more it) in the Julian calender, Pope Gregory decided that the beginning of the year should coincide with the biggest relevant to mankind - the birth of a child through Immaculate Conception of the Son of God. Even though, science have shown this event did not happen on 25th December 0 B.C.E. but rather 15th October 3 B.C.E. (thorugh the back calculation of the bright star that the three wise men from the East followed- and named it the Gregorian calendar.