The Gunpowder Plot, Pt. 1 - Roman Catholic Jesuit Conspiracy. The Gunpowder Plot, Pt. 2 - Roman Catholic Jesuit Conspiracy. The Gunpowder Plot. The Gunpowder Plot of 1605. In November 1605, the infamous Gunpowder Plot took place in which some Catholics, most famously Guy Fawkes, plotted to blow up James I, the first of the Stuart kings of England.
The story is remembered each November 5th when ‘Guys’ are burned in a celebration known as "Bonfire Night". The story appears to be very simple. Catholics in England had expected James to be more tolerant of them. Gunpowder Plot. 1605 failed assassination attempt against English King James I 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 by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby who sought to restore the Catholic monarchy from the Church of England after decades of intolerance against Catholics.
The plot was revealed to the authorities in an anonymous letter sent to William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, on 26 October 1605. During a search of the House of Lords in the evening on 4 November 1605, Fawkes was discovered guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder—enough to reduce the House of Lords to rubble—and arrested. Most of the conspirators fled from London as they learned of the plot's discovery, trying to enlist support along the way.
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