‘Gunpowder Plot’ to blow up English Parliament discovered 410 years ago today (Nov 5 1605)


Video: 'Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot'

(Tuesday, November 5, 1605)The Gunpowder Plot, a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby, failed today when Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English Parliament.