Bloody Sunday may refer to:

Historical events

Canada

Bloody Sunday (1923) The Cape Breton coal strike of 1981 was a strike action, strike by coal mining, coal miners who were members of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) District 26 against the Cape Breton Development Corporation (DEVCO) of Cape Breton Island, No ...

, a day of police violence during a steelworkers' strike for union recognition in Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia *

Bloody Sunday (1938) Bloody Sunday was the conclusion of a month-long "sitdown strike, sitdowners' strike" by unemployed men at the main post office in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was Great Depression, Depression-era Vancouver's final violent clash between u ...

, police violence against unemployment protesters in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ireland

* Bloody Sunday (1913), an attack by police against protesting trade unionists in Dublin, Ireland during the

Dublin lock-out The Dublin lock-out was a major industrial dispute between approximately 20,000 workers and 300 employers that took place in Dublin, Ireland. The dispute, lasting from 26 August 1913 to 18 January 1914, is often viewed as the most severe and s ...

Bloody Sunday (1920) Bloody Sunday () was a day of violence in Dublin on 21 November 1920, during the Irish War of Independence. More than 30 people were killed or fatally wounded. The day began with an Irish Republican Army (1919–1922), Irish Republican Army (I ...

, a day of violence in Dublin during the Irish War of Independence when police, in which Irish Republican Army hit squads killed or injured 15 mostly British army officers, after which Auxiliary forces opened fire on the crowd of a Gaelic Football match, killing 14 people and injuring at least 80 others *

Bloody Sunday (1921) Bloody Sunday or Belfast's Bloody Sunday was a day of violence in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 10 July 1921, during the Irish War of Independence. The violence erupted one day before a truce began, which ended the war in most of Ireland. Wit ...

, a day of violence in Belfast during the Irish War of Independence, in which police launched a raid against Irish republicans, which was ambushed by the Irish Republican Army *

Bloody Sunday (1972) Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. Thirteen men were killed outright and the death o ...

, British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march, killing 14 of the protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland

England

Bloody Sunday (1887) Bloody Sunday was an event which took place in London, England on 13 November 1887, when a crowd of marchers protesting about unemployment and the Irish Coercion Acts, as well as demanding the release of MP William O'Brien, clashed with the ...

, a day of violent clashes between protestors and police in London, England * Bloody Sunday, a police charge on a crowd of protestors during the

1911 Liverpool general transport strike The 1911 Liverpool general transport strike, also known as the great transport workers' strike, involved dockers, railway workers, sailors and other tradesmen. The strike paralysed Liverpool commerce for most of the summer of 1911. It also trans ...

Poland

Bloody Sunday (1939) Bloody Sunday (; ) was a sequence of violent events that took place in Bydgoszcz (), a Poland, Polish city with a sizable German minority in Poland, German minority, between 3 and 4 September 1939, during the Invasion of Poland, German invasion of ...

or Bromberg Bloody Sunday, events in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at the onset of World War II * Stanislawow Ghetto massacre (, ), a 1941 massacre of Jews before the Stanisławów Ghetto announcement * Volhynian Bloody Sunday, a 1943 massacre of ethnic Poles by Ukrainian National Army paramilitaries

United States

* Everett massacre, a violent confrontation between police and striking workers in Everett, Washington, United States in November 1916 *

Bloody Sunday (1965) The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. The marches were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the desire of African-Am ...

, the violent suppression of a civil rights march by state and local law enforcement in Selma, Alabama

Other

Bloody Sunday (1900) Bloody Sunday of February 18, 1900, was a day of high Imperial casualties in the Second Boer War. Background It occurred on the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg The Battle of Paardeberg or Perdeberg ("Horse Mountain", 18–27 Februar ...

, a day of high British military casualties during the Second Boer War *

Bloody Sunday (1905) Bloody Sunday (, ), also known as Red Sunday (), was the series of events on Sunday, in St Petersburg, Russia, when demonstrators, led by Father Georgy Gapon, were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Wi ...

, the killing of unarmed demonstrators by Russian soldiers in Saint Petersburg, Russia * Marburg's Bloody Sunday, a 1919 massacre of ethnically German civilians by soldiers during a protest in Maribor, Slovenia *

Bloody Sunday (Bolzano) Bozner Blutsonntag (German for Bozen Bloody Sunday) refers to the events of 24 April 1921 in Bolzano, Bozen (Italian Bolzano). It was the first climax of Fascism, fascist violence in South Tyrol, a German-speaking province that was annexed by It ...

, a 1921 day of unrest instigated by fascists in Bolzano, Italy * Bloody Sunday (1926), a day of violence in Alsace between French nationalists and Alsatian autonomists *

Altona Bloody Sunday Altona Bloody Sunday () is the name given to the events of 17 July 1932 when a recruitment march by the Sturmabteilung, Nazi SA led to violent clashes between the police, the SA and supporters of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in Alt ...

, a 1932 confrontation among the Sturmabteilung and Schutzstaffel, the police, and Communist Party supporters in Altona, Hamburg *

Bloody Sunday (1968) Bloody Sunday was a massacre on 25 August 1968 when Soviet soldiers shot three unarmed civilians in Prostějov during Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. Nine others were injured. Events On 20 August 1968 armies of five states of Warsaw Pac ...

, a massacre in Prostějov during Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia *

Bloody Sunday (1969) Bloody Sunday () is the name given to a counter-revolutionary response to a leftist protest that occurred on February 16, 1969, in Istanbul's Beyazıt Square, Turkey. At eleven o'clock ten thousands of left-wing students supported by labor unio ...

, violence after a protest in Taksim Square, Istanbul, Turkey *

January Events (Lithuania) The January Events () were a series of violent confrontations between the civilian population of Lithuania, supporting independence, and the Soviet Armed Forces. The events took place between 11 and 13 January 1991, after the restoration of in ...

, the 1991 killing of 14 civilians by the Soviet Army following the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania *

2021 Calabarzon raids The 2021 Calabarzon raids, also referred to as Bloody Sunday and COPLAN ASVAL, were a series of operations conducted by the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Philippine Army in Calabarzon, Philippines, on March 7, 2021, that resulted in t ...

, the killing of nine activists and arrest of six individuals in Calabarzon, Philippines, by the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines

Other uses

* ''Bloody Sunday'' (film), a 2002 film about the 1972 event * ''Bloody Sunday'' (radio show), a 2006 Australian radio programme * '' Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry'', a 2005 play by Richard Norton-Taylor