Gunpowder plot

This 1605 print depicts Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot, a failed Catholic scheme to blow up the Houses of Parliament during the state opening by King James I.

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An illustration of the Gunpowder Plot principal conspirators, copied from a rare print published at the time (5 November 1605). (Photo by Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images).

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Guy Fawkes and the men behind the gunpowder plot. Guy Fawkes, best known of the conspirators, is third from the right. (Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Anne of Denmark, wife of James I of England

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The arrest of Guy Fawkes. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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Sketch of Guy Fawkes with a lantern kneeling in front of barrels of gunpowder

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Coughton Court, an English country house

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Banqueting House, London, where Charles I was executed on 30 January 1649. (Photo by Angelo Hornak/Corbis via Getty Images)

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