In 1605 Guy Fawkes joined a group of fellow English Catholics, led by Robert Catesby, in a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament in order to kill King James I and his Government. Fawkes was ...
Today is Guy Fawkes Day, a day where the U.K. celebrates the foiling of a plot to kill King James I in 1605. The country celebrates this by lightning fireworks and, in a morbid twist, burning an ...
When James VI of Scotland ascended the English throne ... concerns making it an uneasy transition for King James. Although Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot is the most famous of the plots against ...