I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.” Ask anyone in the U.K. about Guy Fawkes, and they'll most likely quote you this poem. The fifth of November is a day when we remember one ...

By the Victorian era, the date had become known as Guy Fawkes Day. The anarchic activity seen before was now frowned upon. Local worthies clamped down on the worst excesses, magistrates issued ...

Guy Fawkes was born in April 1570 in York ... the king would have been sitting for the opening of parliament the next day. The foiling of the plot had been expertly engineered by James I's ...

Today is Guy Fawkes Day, a day where the U.K. celebrates the foiling of a plot to kill King James I in 1605. The country celebrates this by lighting fireworks and, in a morbid twist, burning an ...

"They then made it an annual day of rejoicing and building the bonfires ... usually the Pope who was burnt as an effigy and not Guy Fawkes. "Burning a guy as an effigy really started around ...

1. Guy Fawkes Night, November 5 – United Kingdom What occasion is more worth celebrating than the day when a plot to blow up the parliament building failed? Every year on November 5, Brits ...

The three-month-old died on Nov. 5 after choking on vomit that was believed to be caused by stress from the explosions that could be heard to mark Guy Fawkes Day, when fireworks and bonfires are ...

"Guy Fawkes was briefly employed by Cowdray ... "The origins are unclear - they could be pagan or linked to All Saints' Day - but for centuries it's been enjoyed at the start of November, usually ...

Bonfire Night - also known as Guy Fawkes Night or Fireworks Night - is ... A few months later the Observance of November 5 Act made the day an annual celebration of the plot's failure.