Black Saturday

Black Saturday may refer to:

Battles, massacres, and unrest

 * 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
 * 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

Natural events

 * 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

Economic events

 * Black Saturday (1900), the collapse of Dumbell'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

Other events

 * 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
 * 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

Music

 * "Black Saturday", a 2012 song by Soundgarden from King Animal
 * "Black Saturday", a 2014 song by Mando Diao from Ælita