It's Guy Fawkes Day! On this day, the UK celebrates the foiling of a plot to kill King James I in 1605 by lighting fireworks and, in a morbid twist, burning an effigy of poor Guy. It's easy to ...

By the Victorian era, the date had become known as Guy Fawkes Day. The anarchic activity seen before was now frowned upon. Local worthies clamped down on the worst excesses, magistrates issued ...

Guy Fawkes was born in April 1570 in York ... the king would have been sitting for the opening of parliament the next day. The foiling of the plot had been expertly engineered by James I's ...

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 lighting fireworks and, in a morbid twist, burning an ...

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And on this day in 1606, Guy Fawkes, along with Robert Winter, Thomas Winter, John Grant, Ambrose Rookwood, Robert Keyes, Thomas Bates, and Sir Everard Digby, went on trial at Westminster Hall ...