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Black Saturday (1621)


Black Saturday was a particularly dark, stormy Saturday in Scotland, on 4 August 1621. Many regarded the foul weather as a judgment of Heaven against Acts then passed in the Scots Parliament tending to establish Episcopacy.

Many suicides were recorded on this day, as some saw the foul weather as a preparatory for Armageddon.

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


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