Black Saturday may refer to:

Events

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 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

October 7 attacks or Black Saturday, a 2023 military incursion including coordinated massacres in Israel

Natural events

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

Economic events

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

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

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

Music

"Black Saturday", a 2012 song by Soundgarden from King Animal

"Black Saturday", a 2014 song by Mando Diao from Ælita

Books

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