“BLACK” MONDAYS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 20 January 1931, Page 4

“BLACK” MONDAYS

The title “Black” lias been given to several memorable Mondays, from tbc fourteenth century onwards. Stow, under the year 1360, says: “And bore it is to the noted that the 14lh day of April,

IU Lilt* UUtUU LIUII Dill? J-TLU v«n f y **> and the morrow after Easter Day, King Edward, with his host, lay before Hie city of Paris, which day was full dark of mist and bail, and so bitter cold that many men died on their horses’ backs with the cold; wherefore unto this day it bath been called the 'Black Monday. 1 Tn Ireland “Black Monday” was llio day on which a. number of the English were slaughtered at a village near Dublin in 1209. In Melbourne, 27th February, 1865, was so called from a terrible sirocco, which produced dreadful havoc between Sandhurst and Cnstlctnainc. The term lias also been applied to Bth February, 1886, in consequence of Hie riots which occurred in London on that day. By schoolboys the first Alonday after the holidays —the day on which work usually commences—is also called “Black Monday.”