Trial of Guy Fawkes

Date: January 27, 1606 • Location: London, United Kingdom

Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.

The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was an unsuccessful attempted regicide against King James VI of Scotland and I of England by a group of English Catholics, led by Robert Catesby.