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The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was an unsuccessful attempted regicide against King James I by a group of English Catholics led by Robert Catesby who considered their actions attempted tyrannicide and who sought regime change in England after decades of ...
Watch Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot Mini Documentary. Who was the real mastermind behind the plot, and what caused the conspirators to turn to such extreme measures? Curator Alden Gregory explores the causes and consequences of the Gunpowder Plot in this mini-documentary.
- January 13, 1606
9 nov 2009 · The Gunpowder Plot was a failed attempt by Guy Fawkes, Robert Catesby and others to blow up England’s King James I and the British Parliament on November 5, 1605.
20 mag 2024 · Gunpowder Plot, the conspiracy of English Roman Catholics to blow up Parliament and King James I, his queen, and his eldest son on November 5, 1605. The leader of the plot, Robert Catesby , together with his four coconspirators— Thomas Winter , Thomas Percy , John Wright , and Guy Fawkes —were zealous Roman Catholics angered by ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- The Gunpowder Plot was the conspiracy of a group of English Roman Catholics to blow up Parliament and King James I, his queen, and his eldest son o...
- The Gunpowder Plot was the result of King James I's refusal to grant more religious toleration to Catholics. The leaders of the plot planned to mur...
- With the Gunpowder Plot thwarted, Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy, and John Wright fled and were killed in Staffordshire. Other conspirators, includin...
- After the failure of the Gunpowder Plot, laws against Roman Catholics were immediately increased in severity, a setback that hampered religious tol...
17 giu 2024 · Guy Fawkes was an English conspirator in the 17th-century Gunpowder Plot, an unsuccessful plan to blow up Westminster Palace with King James I and Parliament inside. He joined in this plot in retaliation for James’s increased persecution of Roman Catholics .
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Prior to the 20th century many British subjects viewed Guy Fawkes as a villainous traitor. Guy Fawkes Day celebrations in the United Kingdom someti...
- On the night of November 4–5, 1605, London authorities uncovered the Gunpowder Plot, which implicated Guy Fawkes and four coconspirators. Fawkes wa...
- In January 1606 the British Parliament mandated the observance of Guy Fawkes Day on November 5 to commemorate the failure of the Gunpowder Plot. Ce...
- In the 1980s, British writer Alan Moore and illustrator David Lloyd published V for Vendetta, a graphic novel following an anarchist insurgent name...
Guy Fawkes (/ f ɔː k s /; 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
3 nov 2018 · A popular symbol of protest today, Guy Fawkes was first the face of treason because of his role in the murderous plot to blow up the British parliament in 1605.
