Black Saturday

Last updated January 26, 2026

Black Saturday may refer to:

Events

Battle of Pinkie Cleugh or Black Saturday, a 1547 battle fought between the Scottish and the English Royal armies
Black Saturday (Mau Movement), a 1929 killing of 11 unarmed people by New Zealand police during a Mau demonstration in Samoa
Black Saturday, a day during the 1942 Battle of Gazala between the German Afrika Korps and British armoured divisions
Operation Agatha or Black Saturday (1946), British arrests of Jewish paramilitaries in Palestine
Cairo Fire or Black Saturday, a 1952 series of riots in Cairo
Black Saturday (Cuban Missile Crisis), a day in 1962 when tensions reached their height
Black Saturday or the Wekiduba massacre, the massacre of an Eritrean village by Ethiopian soldiers during the Eritrean War of Independence
Massacre of the Sixty or Black Saturday, a 1974 execution of 60 senior Ethiopian officials by the country's ruling junta
Black Saturday (Lebanon), a 1975 series of massacres and armed clashes in Beirut
Black January or Black Saturday, a 1990 crackdown on Azeri demonstrations by the Soviet army
12 May Karachi riots or Black Saturday riots, 2007 political riots in Karachi, Pakistan
2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel or Black Saturday, a 2023 military incursion including coordinated massacres in Israel

Black Saturday (1598), a total solar eclipse over Scotland
Black Saturday (1621), a dark, stormy day in Scotland, taken as a sign of Armageddon
Black Saturday (1988), the worst day of the fires in Yellowstone Park
Black Saturday bushfires, a 2009 series of bushfires that burned across the Australian state of Victoria

Black Saturday (1900), the collapse of Dumbbell's Bank, Isle of Man, leading to numerous bankruptcies and poverty
Black Saturday (1983), the crisis when the Hong Kong dollar exchange rate was at an all-time low

Holy Saturday, the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday
Black Saturday (France), the busiest day of the year when many people go on holiday
- Beaune coach crash, occurred on Black Saturday in July 1982
Black Saturday (1903), the collapse of a balcony section during a baseball game between the Boston Braves and Philadelphia Phillies, which killed 12 spectators and injured more than 200
Black Saturday (professional wrestling), a 1984 event when the World Wrestling Federation took over the TBS television time slots that had been home to Georgia Championship Wrestling
Annual parade by the Royal Black Institution, a Protestant organisation in Northern Ireland

Black Saturday: An Unfiltered Account of the October 7th Attack on Israel and the War in Gaza, by American journalist Trey Yingst