Black Saturday (1621)

Black Saturday is a term used in Scotland to describe a particularly dark, stormy Saturday that occurred on 4 August 1621. Many regarded the foul weather as a judgment of Heaven against Acts then passed[1] in the Scots Parliament tending to establish Episcopacy.[2] Many suicides were recorded on this day, as some saw the foul weather as a preparatory for Armageddon.[3]

See also

Sources and notes

  1. ↑ The Articles of Perth
  2. ↑ The-Nuttall-Encyclopaedia
  3. ↑ A Short History of Scotland, Andrew Lang

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Black Saturday". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne. 

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