Gunpowder Plot
Parliament bombing scheme
The Gunpowder Plot was a failed 1605 conspiracy by English Catholics to blow up Parliament and kill King James I.
Guy Fawkes, caught guarding explosives beneath the House of Lords, became the plot's most famous figure.
The event is commemorated annually on November 5th as Guy Fawkes Night, when the British burn effigies and set off fireworks.
- treasonBetraying one's nation
- Spanish NetherlandsIberian-controlled Belgian region
- Houses of ParliamentUK's legislative seat
- conspiracyClandestine coordinated scheming
- powderFine dry particles
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- Jacobean EnglandJames I, King James Bible, divine right, divine right of kings, English throne
- ReformationMartin Luther, John Calvin, 95 Theses, Protestant Reformation, Luther
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- sectarianismsectarianism, sectarian, sect, schism, schismatic
- Stuart EnglandCharles I, Charles II, James I, Oliver Cromwell, English Civil War
- English CatholicismEnglish Reformation, Catholic bishops, Catholic clergy, priest holes, Catholic missions
Gunpowder PlotFrench Revolution
Late-1700s republican upheaval
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Religious movement splitting Christianity
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