The Conspiration of the powders is a plot fomented by a group of catholic which aimed at killing out of only one blow the king d' Angleterre Jacques I {{er}}, its family and part of the Aristocratie while exploding the Palais of Westminster to London at the time of the opening ceremony of the Parliament the November 5th 1605. The plot seems to have profited from the complicity of the Spanish government and, perhaps, of that of the Jésuites.

Entreated, under the control of Robert Catesby, just like reproached to the king Anglican Jacques Ier Stuart his Intolérance in their connection towards the puritan . The plot was however ventilated by a catholic Lord, friend of Guy Fawkes, which had received an anonymous letter enjoignant to him not to go to the ceremony. The suckers were excavated by the guard and one found there the powder intended for the Attentat. Guy Fawkes was stopped whereas it was on the point of putting fire at thirty-six barrels of Poudre. Entreated constrained with the escape or hung or were quartered as soon as discovered. See Edward Coke.

In remembering discovered the Conspiracy, the British kept the practice to make burst detonators and fires of artifices the November 5th at the evening ( Guy Fawkes Night , Bonfire Night or Fireworks Night ).

Conjurateurs

• Guy Fawkes;
• Robert Catesby;
• Thomas Percy;
• Christopher Wright ;
• John Wright;
• Robert Keyes;
• Thomas Winter;
• Robert Winter;
• Everard Digby ;
• Andreas Eudaemon-Joannes
• Henri Percy;
• Thomas Harriot.

Cultural references

• the cartoon V for Vendetta evokes a fascistic England in which the adventures of an anarchist being made proceed call " V" and carrying a mask representing the face of Guy Fawkes.

• In 2006, left V for Vendetta , a film adaptation of this cartoon. A short historical background of the plot is visible with the beginning of the intrigue, just as several allusions during film.

• In the song Remember of the album Plastic Ono Band of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, it is refers to the Conspiracy of the Powders: Please Remember the Fifth off November. : these words are followed of an explosion which marks the end of the song.

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Simple: Gunpowder Stud