In history there have been a number of events that happened on a Friday and are known as Black Friday:

• Black Friday (1869) - a stock market crash in the United States
• Black Friday (1919) - a riot in Glasgow stemming from industrial unrest
• Black Friday (1939) - a day of devastating fires in Australia
• Black Friday (1978) - a massacre of protesters in Iran
• Black Friday (1982) - known in Britain after Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, sparking the Falklands War

Other meanings of the term include:

• Black Friday (shopping) - the day after Thanksgiving Day in the United States, the first shopping day of the Christmas season and one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
• Black Friday (film) - an unreleased film on the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai
• "Black Friday" is the title of a song by Steely Dan
• "Black Friday Rule" is the title of a song by Flogging Molly
• "Black Friday" is the name given to the last Friday before Christmas in the United Kingdom. It is a day when large amounts of anti-social behaviour due to public alcohol consumption is expected to occur, and police are given additional powers to combat it.

See also: Black Monday, Black Tuesday, Black Wednesday, Black Thursday, Black Saturday and Black Sunday