The The Gunpowder Gunpowder

PlotPlot

In 1605 King James I was the King of England. Not everybody in England liked him. Catholics were angry that the Protestant King and Parliament would not let Catholics practise their religion.

A man called Guy Fawkes decided to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the King inside.

Guy Fawkes and his friends planned to use gunpowder to blow up the King’s throne.

They put 36 barrels of gunpowder

in the basement of the Houses of Parliament on November 5th.

Somebody found the barrels. The king’s soldiers arrested Guy and his friends for trying to kill

the King.

They tortured Guy Fawkes until he confessed. Then they hung him.

Every year on November 5th the British remember the gunpowder plot. They have fireworks outside.

They burn bonfires and put a model of Guy Fawkes on top to remember how his plan failed.