Well, here are a few of the facts and figures about Mother's Day that might surprise you. Mother's Day was actually first suggested by a famous poet. The woman who first proposed Mother's Day did it back in 1870. She was the same woman who wrote the lyrics to The Battle Hymn of the Republic. After the Civil War, writer Julia Ward Howe suggested a Mother's Day to recognize peace and protest war. She organized annual events in Boston to honor mothers