AGES ERA PERIOD
EARLY 17TH CENTURY
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Westminster Abbey
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Tower Bridge
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the Houses of Parliament
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Buckingham Palace
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Detailed explanation-1: -Every 5 November in Britain on Guy Fawkes Day, we remember the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when Guy Fawkes and fellow Catholic conspirators attempted to blow up Parliament and assassinate James I of England.
Detailed explanation-2: -Their aim was to overthrow the government, kill King James I, and make James’s daughter a Catholic head of state. This illustration shows Guy Fawkes being halted at the Houses of Parliament, before he was able to carry out the plot.
Detailed explanation-3: -The plot centred around five conspirators, Robert Catesby, Thomas Winter, Thomas Percy, John Wright and Guy (or Guido) Fawkes, later joined by Robert Keyes and seven other known accomplices, who determined to blow up of the House of Lords in 1605.
Detailed explanation-4: -Once Percy had rented the house next to the House of Lords later that month, it was decided that Fawkes would pretend to be Percy’s servant, and live there. He adopted the false identity of John Johnson, and was closely involved in the business of digging a tunnel under the House of Lords and procuring gunpowder.