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Guy Fawkes was born in 1570 in Stonegate, York.
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His father died this year and his mother married a catholic man some time later.
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Studies at St. Peter's School in York for some time.
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He fights in the Eighty Years War for Catholic Spain against the new Dutch Republic in the Continent (Europe)
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He travelles to Spain to seek support for a Catholic rebellion in England.
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Fawkes becomes involved with a small group of English Catholics, who planned to assassinate the Protestant King James I.
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Everything is ready to blow the Houses of Parliament
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King's men discover everything and catch Guy Fawkes red-handed
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Londoners are encouraged to celebrate the King's escape from assassination by lighting bonfires.
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Guy Fawkes is executed
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In Britain, 5 November has variously been called Guy Fawkes Night, Guy Fawkes Day, Plot Night, and Bonfire Night (which can be traced directly back to the original celebration of 5 November 1605). Bonfires were accompanied by fireworks from the 1650s onwards, and it became the custom after 1673 to burn an effigy of notable figures although most modern ones are of Fawkes. The "guy" is normally created by children from old clothes, newspapers, and a mask.
