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Guy Fawkes Night
• Oftenreferredtoasbonfirenightorfireworksnight,GuyFawkesnightisapopularcelebrationintheUK.
• Its history begins with the events of the 5th ofNovember1605whenGuyFawkes,wasarrestedwhile guarding explosives beneath the houses ofparliament.
The Gunpowder plot
• The Gunpowder Plot was a failed assassinationattempt against King James I by a group ofEnglishCatholics.
• The plan was to blow up the House of LordsduringtheStateopeningofEngland´sparliament.
Whydidtheydoit?
• They devised a plan to blow up the Houses ofParliamenttoprotestpoortreatmentandoppressionofCatholicsunderthereignofKingJamesI.
• TheProtestant religiondominatedGreatBritain in1603,whenKingJamesIbecameking.UnlikethemajorityofCatholicswhowereloyaltotheCrown,theyhopetooverthrowtheProtestantmonarchy.
Howdidtheydoit?
• Thomas Percy secured a position as a royalbodyguard and purchased a house near thehousesofparliament
• They dug a tunnel as far as the mainfoundations of the House of Lords andtransportedbarrelsofgunpowder.
Where they successful?• No..• LordMonteagle,receivesanunsignedletterwarninghimnottoattendtheopeningofParliamenton5November.
• KingJamesIisshowntheletterandordersaninvestigation.
• Theking'smensearchedparliament'svaultsandcaughtGuyFawkesandlatertherestoftheplotters.
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