Easter Monday was long known in England as Black Monday. Stow traced the name to 14 April 1360, the day after Easter, when Edward III’s army lay before Paris in dark mist, hail and cold so bitter that many men died on their horses. Chambers quotes the chronicle for the day.
Black Monday
14 April
No longer kept
wherefore unto this day it hath been called the Black Monday
From Chambers's Book of Days, vol. 1, p. 510. Read the original
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