Category Archives: 1720s and before

‘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.

England’s King John puts his seal to Magna Carta 800 years ago today (June 15 1215)


Video: 'Magna Carta - Timelines.tv History of Britain B03'

(Monday, June 15, 1215) — England’s King John put his seal to Magna Carta (“the Great Charter”) today at Runnymede. Essentially a peace treaty between the unpopular John and a group of rebel barons, it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown.