Valentine Day Facts!Some interesting Valentine day facts, and why February has been the month to celebrate love dating back to the Middle Ages.
Approximately 85 percent of all In addition to the United States, Valentine's Day is celebrated in Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France and Australia. More history on Valentines day, including the first written Valentine's didn't appear until after the 1400's. In Great Britain valentines began to be celebrated around the seventeenth century, and Americans began exchanging hand-made valentines in the early 1700's. Pope Gelasius declared February 14th St. Valentine's day around 498 A.D. According to legend young women would put their names in a big urn. The city's bachelors would choose a name and become paired for the year with his chosen woman...hum...Match.com??
was the beginning of birds' mating season. In the 1840's Ester A. Howland began to sell The oldest known valentine still in existence today, written in 1415, was a poem by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt.
John Lydgate to compose valentine love letters to Catherine of Valois. According to the Greeting Card Association, an estimated one billion valentine cards are sent each year, making Valentine's day the second largest card sending holiday of the year.
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