Black October may refer to:

The October 1993 attack by the Yeltsin administration on mass demonstrations, leading to the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis. The riots that took place October 1988, in Algeria The October Crisis, a 1970 kidnapping/terrorism crisis in Canada Black October (film), a 2000 film about the October Crisis Black October (album), 2006 Sadat X album "Octubre negro", unrest in Bolivia in October 2003 during the Bolivian gas conflict October 2008, the peak of the 2008 financial crisis 2013 New South Wales bushfires in Australia The Black October organization that claimed responsibility for the assassination of Maryland state delegate Turk Scott