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Guy Fawkes is born in York
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crowned King of England
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Fawkes became involved with a small group of English Catholics, led by Robert Catesby, who planned to assassinate the Protestant King James. They started discussing to blow up the Houses of Parliament
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The group rented a cellar under the House of Lords. They hid 36 barrels of gunpowder under firewood
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Guy Fawkes was betrayed and a search was ordered
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Guy Fawkes was arrested in the cellar and imprisoned in the Tower of London
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Guy Fawkes was hung.His lifeless body was quartered and, as was the custom,his body parts were then distributed to "the four corners of the kingdom", to be displayed as a warning to other would-be traitors.
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Guy Fawkes Night is annually held on November 5. It is sometimes known as Bonfire Night and marks the anniversary of the discovery of a plot organized by Catholic conspirators to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London in 1605. Many people light bonfires and set off fireworks.
