Gunpowder Plot Foiled
November 5, 1605
A King's Messenger searching the cellars beneath the House of Lords found a Yorkshire Catholic named Guy Fawkes crouched over thirty-six barrels of gunpowder with a slow match in his pocket. The plan had been to incinerate Parliament and the royal family. English Catholicism would not recover for two centuries.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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