GUY FAWKES DAY: A plot by 13 Catholic conspirators to detonate 36 barrels of gunpowder beneath the Palace of Westminster, meeting place of the House of Lords and Commons, is foiled.  The conspirators had hoped to kill James I (a Presbyterian, r. 1567, in Scotland as James VI; 1603 – 1625) as he was addressing Parliament.

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