Bloody Sunday may refer to:

Historical events

Canada

Bloody Sunday (1923) The Cape Breton coal strike of 1981 was a strike by coal miners who were members of the United Mine Workers of America against the Cape Breton Development Corporation (DEVCO) of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. The strike, which was bitt ...

, 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 " sitdowners' strike" by unemployed men at the main post office in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was Depression-era Vancouver's final violent clash between unemployed protesters and police ...

, 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 Ireland's capital and largest city, Dublin. The dispute, lasting from 26 August 1913 to 18 January 1914, is often vie ...

Bloody Sunday (1920) Bloody Sunday ( ga, Domhnach na Fola) 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 (IRA) operation, ...

, a day of violence in

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

during the

Irish War of Independence The Irish War of Independence () or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-mil ...

, in which the

Irish Republican Army The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is a name used by various paramilitary organisations in Ireland throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Organisations by this name have been dedicated to irredentism through Irish republicanism, the belief tha ...

assassinated 15 people, most suspected of being members of the

Cairo Gang The Cairo Gang was a group of British intelligence agents who were sent to Dublin during the Irish War of Independence to conduct intelligence operations against prominent members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) with, according to Irish intel ...

, a group of British Army intelligence officers active in Ireland and the British retaliated by massacring 14 Irish civilians at a sports arena. *

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 Ceasefire, truce began, which ended the war in most of I ...

, a day of violence in

Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdo ...

during the

, in which police launched a raid against Irish republicans which was ambushed by the

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. Fourteen people died: thirteen were killed outri ...

, the killing of 14 civil rights protesters by British soldiers in Derry, Northern Ireland

England

Bloody Sunday (1887) Bloody Sunday took place in London on 13 November 1887, when marchers protesting about unemployment and coercion in Ireland, as well as demanding the release of MP William O'Brien, clashed with the Metropolitan Police and the British Army. T ...

, 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 transf ...

Poland

Bloody Sunday (1939) Bloody Sunday (german: Bromberger Blutsonntag; pl, Krwawa niedziela) was a sequence of violent events that took place in Bydgoszcz (german: Bromberg), a Polish city with a sizable German minority, between 3 and 4 September 1939, during the Germ ...

or Bromberg Bloody Sunday, events in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at the onset of World War II * Stanislawow Ghetto massacre (or ), 12 October 1941 massacre of Jews before the Stanisławów Ghetto announcement *

Volhynian Bloody Sunday On Sunday July 11, 1943, the OUN-UPA death squads aided by the local Ukrainian peasants simultaneously attacked at least 99 Polish settlements within the Wołyń Voivodeship of the prewar Second Polish Republic under the German occupation.Nabi Ab ...

, a 1943 massacre of ethnic Poles by Ukrainian National Army paramilitaries

United States

Everett massacre The Everett Massacre (also known as Bloody Sunday) was an armed confrontation between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union, commonly called "Wobblies". It took place in Everett, Washington on Sunday, ...

, 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 54-mile (87 km) highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. The marches were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the ...

, 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. A combined British-Canadian force of 6,000 finally trapped a group of approxi ...

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

Bloody Sunday (1905) Bloody Sunday or Red Sunday ( rus, Крова́вое воскресе́нье, r=Krovávoe voskresénje, p=krɐˈvavəɪ vəskrʲɪˈsʲenʲjɪ) was the series of events on Sunday, in St Petersburg, Russia, when unarmed demonstrators, led by ...

, the killing of unarmed demonstrators by Russian soldiers in Saint Petersburg, Russia *

Marburg's Bloody Sunday Marburg's Bloody Sunday (German: , sl, Mariborska krvava nedelja) was a massacre that took place on Monday, 27 January 1919 in the city of Maribor (German: ) in Slovenia. Soldiers from the army of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (''l ...

, a massacre of ethnically German civilians by soldiers during a protest in Maribor, Slovenia in 1919 *

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) Bloody Sunday is a name given to political clashes that occurred in Colmar, Alsace, France on August 22, 1926. On that day the French Communist Party and the Colmar section of the Popular Republican Union (1919-1946), Popular Republican Union (a Ca ...

, a day of violence in Alsace between French nationalists and Alsatian autonomists *

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

, 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 Prostějov (; german: Proßnitz) is a city in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 43,000 inhabitants. The city is known for its fashion industry. The historical city centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an Cultural ...

during

Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia refers to the events of 20–21 August 1968, when the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was jointly invaded by four Warsaw Pact countries: the Soviet Union, the Polish People's Republic, the People's Rep ...

. *

Bloody Sunday (1969) Bloody Sunday ( tr, Kanlı Pazar) 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 suppo ...

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

January Events (Lithuania) , partof = Revolutions of 1989, Singing Revolution, and Dissolution of the Soviet Union , image = , caption = A man with a Lithuanian flag in front of a Soviet tank, 13 January 1991 , date = 1 ...

or Bloody Sunday, 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 ...

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