Bloody Sunday - Events

Events

  • Bloody Sunday (1887), a demonstration in London, England against British repression in Ireland
  • Bloody Sunday (1900), a day of high casualties in the Second Boer War, South Africa
  • Bloody Sunday (1905), a massacre in Saint Petersburg, Russia that led to the 1905 and 1917 Russian Revolutions
  • Everett massacre (1916), violence in Washington, United States between trade union members and local authorities
  • Marburg's Bloody Sunday (1919), a massacre of civilians of German ethnic origin in Maribor during the protest at the central city square
  • Bloody Sunday (1920), a day of violence in Dublin, Ireland during the Irish War of Independence
  • Bloody Sunday (1921), a day of violence in Belfast, Northern Ireland during the Irish War of Independence
  • Bloody Sunday (1926), a day of violence in Alsace
  • Bloody Sunday (1938), police violence against unemployment protesters in Vancouver, Canada
  • Bloody Sunday (1939), aka Bromberg Bloody Sunday, a massacre in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at the onset of World War II
  • Bloody Sunday (1965), a violent attack during the first of the Selma to Montgomery marches in Alabama, United States
  • Bloody Sunday (1969), violence after a protest in Taksim Square, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Bloody Sunday (1972), shooting of unarmed civilian protesters by the British Army (Parachute Regiment) in Derry, Northern Ireland
    • Bloody Sunday Inquiry (1998), an inquiry commissioned by Tony Blair to investigate the killings of 1972
  • January Events (Lithuania) - January 13, 1991 attack on civilians is referred to as Bloody Sunday in Lithuania

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