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  • Gunpowder Plot

    Gunpowder Plot The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was 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 . The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of England's Parliament on 5 November 1605, as t...