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 the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.