there were 13 in total, so choose one: Robert Catesby Thomas Wintour Jack Wright Thomas Percy Guy Fawkes Robert Wintour Christopher Wright Robert Keyes Thomas Bates John Grant Ambrose Rookwood Francis Tresham Evard Digby
1604
Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators hatched the Gunpowder Plot at the Duck and Drake pub in London.
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 is also referred to as the Gunpowder Treason Plot. This plot was a plot to blow up James the First. One can learn more specifics about this plot on the History website.
This well-known scalawag and proponent of tobacco use was imprisoned from 1603 - 1616 for his alleged involvement in The Main Plot, which also just happened to be Catholics against James I. He is not named amongst the supposed conspirators. However(!) The very same Attorney General Edward Coke quite famously prosecuted Sir Walter Raleigh and The Gunpowder Plot conspirators for treason.
The Gunpowder Plot The Gunpowder Plot was a failed attempt to assasinate King James I of England and other members of the Aristocracy, by blowing up the Houses of Parliament on the day of the Official opening of a new parliamentary session on 5th November 1605. The Conspirators were Roman Catholics who were dissaffected by the treatment of Roman Catholics in England. The main conspirators were tried and convicted on 27th January 1606 and were executed on 30th and 31st January. The last person to be executed in connection with the plot was Henry Garnet, a Jesuit who had heard the confessions of the conspirators. Despite pleading that he had tried to dissuade the plotters from carrying out their plan, he was found gulty of conspiracy to commit treason and was hanged on 3rd May 1606.
Guido Fowkes, or Fawkes, was one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English parliament in 1603. He was caught as he was going to light the fuse to 36 barrels of gunpowder, and was tortured to try to make him reveal the names of the other conspirators. We celebrate the survival of parliament on 5th of November each year by means of fireworks and a bonfire on which we burn 'the guy' - Guy Fawkes.
In the Gunpowder Plot, the gunpowder was located underneath the House of Lords. Everyone that participated in the plot was sentenced to death.
The gunpowder was being hidden in the gunpowder plot. It was hidden in a cellar under the house of parliament.
conspirators or co-conspirators
The Gunpowder Plot was a failed assassination attempt on King James I in 1605, while Macbeth was written by William Shakespeare in 1606. The events of the Gunpowder Plot might have influenced the themes of treachery, power struggles, and political instability in Macbeth, as Shakespeare often incorporated contemporary events and concerns into his plays.
John Grant - Gunpowder Plot - was born in 1570.
November 5, 1605, when Guido Fawkes was caught red-handed preparing the gunpowder in a cellar the gang had rented. One of his co-conspirators accidentally but clumsily tipped off the authorities by warning a friend not to attend Parliament on the 6th! Although not knowing what was actually intended, the friend raised the alarm.